In this short excerpt of a piece, you can see, that a tempo doesn’t work after a fermata. If you delete the fermata, a tempo will play back as expected.
Fermata_a tempo.dorico (1.1 MB)
One can always reset the MM marking, hide it, and then set the text to a tempo.
Hi @HeiPet I found that if you switch on the Hold Only override, it works as expected (don’t know exactly the technical reason why it works, but it does 
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This have something to do with the gap (which Hold Only deactivates…):
…infact it also works if you put the Gap% to 0:
But this behaviour (in your original example) is strange, because on Bar 5 the tempo is correctly set at 124 in the Key Editor/Tempo but it seems if the Gap is influencing it in some undesired way.
I tried also setting the note with fermata as half note, and the a tempo works correctly. So the culprit must be the Gap in conjunction with the quarter rest:
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Thanks for posting this project. I can reproduce the problem, and we’ll fix this in a future update. Sorry for the inconvenience in the meantime.
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Curious if this has been solved, as I Have just experienced a similar problem. If not, no worries as we have the solution suggested By @Christian_R
The problem that Heiko reported in the first post in this thread is indeed fixed, but if you have a similar example that is still causing problems, I’d be interested to see it. Please cut it down to the minimal number of bars and instruments that reproduces the problem and attach it here so I can take a look.
Hi! I arrived in this thread after experiencing the exact issue outlined above. I am currently using Dorico 6 and NotePerformer 4 for playback. In my case, I tried all the solutions above and even when I include the metronome marking for the correct (original) tempo playback still slows to the new tempo established by the fermata (like 3/4 tempo of the previous). What’s interesting is the second fermata does NOT compound the issue, it persists in the slower tempo established by the first fermata.
See screenshot attached…again, even when I include the metronome marking of q = 80 playback is still slower after the fermata. I appreciate any help!
Even more annoying: I tried to create a short excerpt of the file, but when I chopped out the preceding and following bars to reduce it the problem did not persist. I’m baffled. There are of course many tempo and meter changes before and after this moment, and other fermatas that are not causing this issue.
Presumably one should not have to restate the tempo after a fermata. The symbol means “hold,” not slow down.
That is the source of the issue here, yes.
I too am experiencing this issue, any updates on this bug?
Hi @ckriegeskotte and @benbroadymusic, please read this: