On 4/19/2018 7:58 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > I don't think I understand Steve Parker's comment about "MT scores". I > don't doubt that Finale requires stitching together thirty files, but I > don't understand the requirement well enough to understand why. > > My question about different layouts is, are they anything like linked > parts? Because an improved interface for copying part layouts is definitely > something that I've wanted and could actually be done by a plugin. >
I have only begun to scratch the surface of what Dorico can do, but I'll take a stab at answering this. Then Steve Parker can leap in and tell me I'm crazy and fix up my explanation. Musical theater has all those many different songs and dances and vamps and scene-change pieces, many with different instrumentation needs. Very hard to do in a single large file in Finale. In Dorico, you create the total ensemble you want, assigning instruments (and sounds) to the "players" (Dorico is using some terms that are a bit strange in my opinion). So if the maximum number of instruments needed is a total of 30 different instruments for the total show, you can create that ensemble to begin with. Dorico has things called "flows" which are essentially different movements. One can choose whichever instruments out of the total original ensemble one wants to use in any particular "flow." You simply select the instruments from the original large ensemble and viola you have just what you need in the new flow. The layout for each "flow" can be completely different from other "flows" in the same file, all done easily and without endangering the layouts for other flows. Then, once all the flows are created, the part for each of the original "players" can be printed and it will show only the flows that player is used in. I haven't worked with the linked parts yet, but from all I've read they are a dream compared to Finale's. There are many videos about using Dorico on Youtube, so you could search there to see what's possible. It really is very powerful software but with a vastly different approach to notation projects from either Finale or Sibelius. -- ***** David H. Bailey [email protected] http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
