Dear users and developers,
‘Beam Together’ has an issue with ‘tied notes’. To beam the following example
It is logically correct considering the concept of beaming and ties in Dorico, but it is very unproductive.
Does anyone have a sophisticated method to do it?
Dear Daniel, I think Dorico may offer a method to select just one note or one notehead of tied notes. Would it be implementable?
Have you tried Engrave mode ? That is the place where you can select individual notes of a tie chain. And since beaming is more a graphical feature than musical, it should work (not 100% confident)
Yes, Marc is correct: this can be done without removing any ties in Engrave mode.
Thank you, but could you shortly explain how to to it?
I have selected some notes by dragging, then pressed “ctrl + shift + /”. It divides beams. However, I could not recombine them.
There’s nothing much to it. In Engrave mode you can select an individual notehead in the tie chain and use the appropriate command in the Edit > Beaming submenu to either split or join the beam.
Thanks!
Hi prko!
I find it really convenient to create shortcuts that suit you for beaming, un-beaming… Mine are
Cmd-b beam together
Alt-b make unbeamed
Ctrl-alt-b Split beam (divides the beaming without un-beaming all notes)
Ctrl-alt-cmd-b reset beaming
But you can of course use whatever key bindings make sense to you (or use a Stream Deck or any equivalent)
I do not have a Stream Deck or any equivalent for I do not have an iOS device.
Your shortcuts seem to be better than my own. I will try it. Thanks!
