If you have both staves on the same MIDI channel in the Score Manager, the dynamics should apply to both staves, but there are some times a hairpin will keep affecting one (bottom) staff past the point where I have put a target dynamic marking in only one (top) staff. If I hear that happening, I just add a hidden dynamic marking to the second staff of the Group.

(I have also built a grand staff using two staves on separate MIDI channels in order to handle their dynamics separately.)

Adrian,

Thank you for your reply of two years ago!!

I had been struggling with how to apply separate dynamics to each piano staff.

Now that I see what you did, it is really rather obvious.  "Now that I see..." :-

I have noted that dynamics apply to each staff (if on separate channels), but crescendi and decrescendi markings (hairpins) apply to both.

This, and realizing that I had not been using GPO4 (I now have GPO5) and thereby not making full using of layers and channels, has had a major impact on my audio outputs!

Thank you, again,

:-)
Vanessa

Glad I could help. Another trick I sometimes use is to put hidden accents on specific voices to bring out interior melodies.

Ah!

Great idea. I really like the option to "Show" or to hide something.

I often use the "hide" option for metronome markings to fine tune ritardandi, and to give a more personal interpretation of playback, etc

:-)
Vanessa