Adding a rest in the middle of a voice (old project)

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I’m revisiting an old project; I’m not sure whether I had removed a rest in the marked location, but in any case, I now want to put one here:

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I don’t want to discuss the correctness of this, regarding voice leading etc., this is purely a software question :slight_smile: Namely, I have no idea how to do that. The ‘d’ in the upper left and the ‘a b c’ two bars later are in the same voice. When I select the ‘d’ in the upper left, press enter, move to the beginning of the next bar, and press “8 , d”, nothing visible happens. If I enter two half-notes and delete them, no rest appears. No object in the vicinity ends / starts a voice, as far as I can see.

I’d really appreciate some pointers. I’m still on 3.5. Thanks in advance!

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Does the up-stem voice belong the top staff or bottom staff? If they belong to the top staff but appear crossed to the bottom staff, then Dorico won’t show rests.

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Thank you. How do I check to which staff a voice belongs? When I click on a note, I can only see the stem direction and the number. For example, both staves contain ‘up-stem voice 1’.

And just to be sure, are you referring to the upper voice in bar 36?

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View > Note and Rest Colors >Voice Colors
Select the D. In the Properties panel deselect Ends Voice (if set)
Select the A. In the Properties panel deselect Starts Voice (if set)

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Thank you. The situation is at follows:

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None of the notes in the two voices from the upper staff has the ‘Ends Voice’ / ‘Starts Voice’ property set.

I’m a daltonist so I may confuse the name, but I also tried now to use the lower voice in the upper staff, the orange [?] one. But again: when I select the ‘f’ in bar 35, press Enter, move to the beginning of bar 36, and press ‘8 , d’, the cursor moves correctly to bar 37, but no rest appears. What am I missing?

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Check that the light blue rest at the end of bar 35 doesn’t have “Ends Voice” set. If it does, turn it off.

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Thank you for the suggestion, but that’s still not it (the rest does not have the ‘Ends Voice’ property set).

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OK. Double-click at the start of bar 36, top staff, ensure that the caret is showing a quarter note pointing upwards with no numbers (as though you were about to input notes into Up-stem Voice 1), then type Shift-B rest Enter. With any luck that’ll force a bar rest to appear.

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That did it! Thank you very much, @pianoleo !

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