However, I’ve written other songs following the same procedure I used for this one and have never encountered a similar problem. I’ve always written the voice with the stems pointing up, the second with the stems pointing down, and the third with the stems pointing down, and the software has never failed to memorize the third part, even though there was a voice with the stems pointing up.
no, it doesn’t change anything
Can you please give a specific example of something you’re trying to do that doesn’t work correctly?
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So, I managed to fix things by configuring the three voices as: 1 with stems pointing down, 2 with stems pointing up, and 2 with stems pointing down, as Janus suggested, and so far I’m fine with that, since everything works. What I don’t understand is that this is the first time I’ve done this, because in all the pieces I’ve written so far, I’ve always created three voices: 1 with stems up, 2 with stems down, and 3 with stems down, and the problem I’m having now has never occurred to me before. I think you don’t think this last procedure is right, but since I’ve been able to proceed this way so far, it means Dorico accepts it, and it seems the most logical one. I believe that the direction of the stem doesn’t determine a single voice, but is simply a characteristic we assign to that specific voice. Voice 1, for example, can’t have stems pointing up and stems pointing down at the same time, because the voice is unique, in my opinion. Sorry for my length and my fussiness.
Whether stems go up or down depends entirely on the context, and the presence/absence of other voices.
A simple experiment would show you.
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