Error - Composing Tools/Reduce

[Nobis]

Hi all,

I have a problem with Siblius 7. I'm trying to follow the tutorial form the manual "Siblius 7 Tutorial" Project 2, Page 67.

If i try to reduce the low parts (Viola and Cello) onto the left-hand piano staff i receive this error message from sibelius:

Composing Tools/Reduce::ImpUseExist:26:Field staffnum not found


score = Sibelius.ActiveScore;

count = 1;
text = "" & _impmain;
length = Length(text);
split = length - 4;
tag = Substring(text, split, 2);
if (tag = "~(")
{
newsplit = length - 2;
count = Substring(text, newsplit, 1);
text = Substring(text, 0, split);
}
dupe = 0;
for each staff in score
{
if (staff.FullInstrumentName = text)
{
dupe = dupe + 1;
if (dupe = count)
{
staffnum = staff.StaffNum;
}
}
}
return staffnum;


Cheack Syntax > the syntax is correct

waht does ist means? What can I do?

Thanks for you help!
Nobis

Nobis

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Joined: Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:33 pm

[bobp]

It means you should try what was suggested in your other post. Reduction does not work well to make piano parts. Use Arrange instead. You will be asked to select ( or just go ahead and create) an Arrange Style. In your case, harp, piano, keyboard. Start small for practice. Select the first several measures of your orchestra piece. Copy them to the clipboard (Ctrl+C). Create a new piano score. Select the first measure and select Arrange from the notation tab.
I just did this and it worked fine. Reduce is for condensing several parts to one line. Impractical for making piano reductions.