I have a 6/4 bar in an otherwise regular 4/4 song. There is no arrangement in the part I’m working on, the staff is still empty. Chord input popover (Shift Q) doesn’t allow me to enter chords for the last 2 quarter notes in the 6/4 bar - it moves directly to the next bar (using the space key). Also, the bar shows a whole note rest instead of a dotted whole note rest.
I’m on the brand new 2.2.10 version.
I haven’t tried to input notes first and inputting chords later, so I’ll check this once I’m finished with the chords, but I thought I should let you know.
Did you add the 6/4 AFTER you entered the next 4/4? If so, this is expected behaviour - Dorico can’t automatically add beats to a bar if there’s a time signature immediately following.
Either add the 6/4 with Insert mode turned on, or add it before you add a time signature to the next bar, or, if you’ve already got the 6/4 with a 4/4 following, put the caret somewhere inside the 6/4 bar, type Shift+B then 2/4
I suspect this is nothing to do with chord input at all, and it’s not a bug
Did you add the 6/4 AFTER you entered the next 4/4?
Hello Leo,
Thank you for responding so quickly!
No, I didn’t. I selected the barline and 6/4, only after that I did the same with the following bar but chose 4/4 again.
I deleted those two meters and created a 6/4 meter again. Funnily enough it now shows me this:
OK, I deleted the last empty bars altogether and created some new ones. Changing the meter to 6/4 didn’t show the expected dotted whole note rest. Double clicking the bar to input notes finally convinced the program to display the expected rest, but I had to double click each line individually.
Still, I cannot move chord input to the last two quarter notes of the bar – it still goes straight to the next bar.
I’ve just had a go here.
If you Space to advance the caret, it jumps a dotted minim/half (which is the beat in 6/4, as far as Dorico’s concerned).
If you use the right arrow key, it advances by the grid value.
I’m still not seeing anything that makes this a bug.
I entered some (six exactly) placeholder quarter notes into my 6/4 bar – chord input still doesn’t work for the last two of them, so I think there really is something fishy about chord input after all.
But thank you for pointing me to the convention.
Surprising result: I’ve learned that it is convention not to display dotted whole note rests in empty bars, but I managed to convince Dorico to do exactly this. I didn’t manage to have it let me input chord symbols though… who’d have thought…
… Same behavior now in my staff. Didn’t know about the arrow key. It’s a bit awkward using this, because it serves at the same time to move within the popover text, so you have e.g. to hit it six times to leave – let’s say – a D7sus4 chord and again twice to get it to the next quarter note… but there’s a solution.
You can set the grid value to whatever you like - it doesn’t have to be quavers/eighths. It’s in the bottom left corner, or you can use Alt+[ and Alt+]
