Adding a bar rest to a new voice

Dorico
1

I have two instruments sharing a staff. The top instrument (bass trombone) begins playing at bar 5, and I wanted to add a bar rest in the downstem voice to indicate that the tuba is tacet.

I know it’s Shift-B, “rest.” But even with selecting a downstem voice in note input, I wasn’t able to get the bar rest until I added some dummy downstem notes in the previous bar, and then deleted them afterwards.

Am I correct in assuming I had to put something into downstem voice 1 before adding an explicit bar rest?

2

Yup.
If the voice is empty, you won’t be able to input rests this way — that’s what I found trying hard to input them, just as you have.

3

If you use the Bars and Barlines Panel on the right, Insert Bar Rest works for new voice with no notes in it yet.

4

Thanks, dbudde! I confess I never use the right panel for this kind of thing. Then this we can call it an “inconsistency”, I’m confident it will soon be solved by the dream team !

5

Does this option fix this, Dan?

6

Dear Leo,
No, it does not solve the problem. Even with that option on, if you do
• shift-v (create a new voice)
• shift-b>rest
Dorico replaces the content of the bar with a rest, instead of adding a bar rest.

On the other hand, if you invoke the caret, shift-v and then add a bar rest using the right panel (bars and barlines>add bar rest), Dorico creates the voice with the bar rest.