I have three percussion lines in a score that I want to print as a single part. I can do this by focusing on the three staves and printing, but this shows all the empty bars individually instead of combining them as multi-rests.
Is there a way to combine the three lines into a single part so that multi-rests show?
1. Make a new part by starting off with one of your perc parts, click "New Part" icon at bottom of Parts window (it looks like a sheet of paper). If asked if you want to create a default set of parts answer no. Choose your three perc staves on the LH of the next window and click 'Add to Part'.
2. Do your focussing on staves in the score as you did, but switch multirests on (ctrl+shift+M).
By default multirests are off in the score, on in the parts but you can change this.
You're welcome.
Thinking about it I guess my option 2 is doomed to failure as the music in the "unfocussed-upon" staves is still there and preventing the multirests from forming.
If your percussion are not all playing at the same time, you can reduce space by staff sharing. Easily done with Instrument Change. I know this is possible in Sib6, but I've forgotten how it's done. Ah, yes: Create or R-klik/Other/InstrumentChange, or Ctrl/Shift/Alt/I.
I wasn't talking about playback, Pat, but rather saving space on the printed page. When you have 2 or more percussionists playing in different parts of the score, their music can be written on a single staff.
Amateur & School bands most often have one player per instrument while a lone session percussionist in a studio orchestra might be expected to play everything that's called for, including timps & vibes, which in classical & symphonic ensembles are classed as specialist percussion.
But you could write all of the percussion on a single staff (if that is possible) and print more than one part if more than one player is available, then there are no empty staves to hide ;-) Just throwing suggestions as I don't know what's actually involved in Pat's score other than it has 3 percussion staves. Jus' Guessin'.
For clarification: I arrange music for the wind ensemble I play in but as we have no regular percussionist I know next to nothing about percussion. However we do have one, or sometimes, two who help us out when we have a gig that would benefit from percussion. We have such a gig next week and as I'm not sure if we'll have one or two players I'm trying to prepare the score that has three percussion parts so that it can be made the best of, however many percussionists there are.