You need Force Duration turned on for the entire input of that note, including the input of the tie. This comes up weekly, basically, so please search!
It works if you input the ties on the fly: activate force duration, input the quarter note, hit T for the tie, input the eighth note, input the sixteenth note.
If I add the tie afterwards, force duration doesn’t help for me either.
The entire point was that I made a mistake and needed to go back to the score input the tie AFTER THE FACT.
(maybe I noticed the missing tie in rehearsal, and went home to correct the mistake)
Is there no way to add it after the fact?
I understand how to input the correct note durations using force duration when I first input the notes.
The question is whether I can make corrections after the fact or am I forced to re-input the entire thing again?
No. The Force Duration property is a property of each note. When you tie notes they become one note, and the new note inherits properties from the previous separate notes. It’s a bit like recessive genes! You can’t guarantee that Force Duration will work unless absolutely every constituent note was entered WITH Force Duration.
Not at the moment, no, because when you add the tie the original note is rewritten. We do intend to make some changes to the way Force Duration works, in particular to make it possible to apply it retrospectively to notes that already exist.
I obviously misunderstood you then. Apologies if I upset you by assuming that you were asking how to do this in the first place. I just wanted to help.
I second that! Having ties change my forced durations is a common problem for me. Being able to preserve force duration on subsequent operations would really be a bliss.
Only tie once… that is input your desired notes with Force Duration, (nothing should be tied at this point), then select all the notes you wish to be tied and type “t”.
Personally, I usually tie as I go, as Leo explains.
Leo - you beat me to it!
I tried Musicmaven’s method, and it works here too. So, it’s either all now and nothing later, or nothing now and all later.
The second method can be more useful when you have to duplicate a measure, maybe with notes tied over the barline.
If you happen to tie notes, and then want to add tied notes, you can use the scissors toll (shortcut U), and remove the existing ties, before adding all the needed ties.