Hello,

Is there a way to make a grand staff marimba in Sib7 with VDL 2.5.5? Creating two separate marimba parts and putting them together in brackets doesn't allow me to cross-staff notes, and using the Sib 7 grand marimba setting it plays back as all rolls. Any ideas?

Thank you,

Tom

Tom,

Creating a second staff for just about any instrument is something very easy to do in Sibelius (Ahem��_documentation). Hit ";I"; for Instrument, select the VDL marimba staff in question and click one of the ";Add extra staff"; buttons.

I use the Grand Marimba and then do a manual instrument change to a VDL marimba instrument.

You could also duplicate the instrument in Edit Instruments, then assign 2 staves to it instead of one.

Thanks everyone. I'm familiar with the technique of adding instruments, however I cannot find a grand staff option for the marimba that allows me to beam notes from the bottom staff to the top staff like you'd see in much marimba material. The way I tried was 1) Creating two separate marimba staves, bracketing them together and making them one part (which I think Hugh mentioned)- but it doesn't allow me to beam across the staves, still, and 2) Creating the sibelius 7 standard grand marimba staff into the rest of my file, but using the VDL sounds. when I do this, the notes all play back as rolls for the one instrument (the Sib 7 grand marimba).

Bill, how would I go about trying that? Thanks for the quick feedback, all!

-Tom

Murray-I just re-read your response- I've been using Sibelius for years and I've never noticed that!!! That is fantastic to know about, thanks for pointing it out. My problem is solved!

-Tom

Tom,

You have to do an instrument change for the top and bottom staff.