Hi Christoper, This is something that is promised. You can easily set divisi passages with extra staves. As far as cuing goes, you select something in the part and choose from a list of which instrument(s) you want cued.
As it stands now, I still find combining instruments into a staff to be easier than in Finale, because it is so easy to have three staves (combined, I and II) and allocate these to different layouts. Steve P. > On 28 Jan 2019, at 13:45, Christopher Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Steve, > > Thanks for the info. Are you saying that Dorico handles two instruments per > score staff, but with individual parts separated, including cues and solos, > very well? (I find this is a weakness in Finale). > > Christopher > > >> On Jan 28, 2019, at 8:31 AM, Steve Parker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I’m now using Dorico for all new projects. Dorico’s ability to have distinct >> pieces in one file (‘flows’) that can be reordered saves so much time. For >> each layout, these can be set to continue on the same page or to start a new >> page, both with header information. Dorico handles cue superbly. The lengths >> of these can be dragged to extend or reduce, all correctly labelled. Dorico >> handles doubling players well, with automatic labelling. Dorico is also >> strong for percussion writing. You can easily switch from a combined set to >> individual instruments, because the underlying music representation is >> distinct from the form of it on the page. >> >> Dorico has some annoyances. IMO more engraving decisions should >> auto-propagate to parts. This is easily dealt with, but can catch you out. >> Sometimes cutting ties is the quickest method to enter dynamics etc. This >> ‘reversing’ always feels uncomfortable. Undo/redo includes every selection >> and click that you make. I hate this, but it does make me careful to think >> things through rather than to do and undo. Dorico jumps around more than I >> understand to focus the screen on something I don’t want to see (or worse I >> don’t immediately know where I am). Conversely, I can’t reliably find a way >> to link focus between score and parts. >> >> My biggest hassle in Dorico is its inability to set bars-per-system over a >> specified range of bars. You can do this one system at a time, but it’s >> annoying that something so simple in Finale takes longer in Dorico. However, >> Dorico’s first guess at system layout is far better than Finale’s. >> >> On the whole, Dorico’s downsides lose me minutes, but its upsides gain me >> days. >> >> Steve Parker >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
