I’m trying to use condensing for certain measures that contain different rhythmic values. Picture 1 shows the music before condensing, and Picture 2 shows it after. I want to preserve the same rhythmic values for Voices 1 and 2 independently in the condensed version. I attempted to use Force Duration by selecting the notes and pressing O before condensing, hoping to lock the rhythm, but that didn’t work.
I also attempted to use the manual condensing options in Engrave mode, assigning Voice 1 to up-stems and Voice 2 to down-stems, but I was still unable to achieve the desired result.
If you’ve forced manual condensing in your condensing change and you’ve assigned both instruments to the same voice, that would explain the results you’re seeing. It’s really only possible to give a real diagnosis if you provide the project file itself, however.
As @dspreadbury says, your manual condensing has put both Tenors into the same voice.
But also the problem is the breath marks in bar 5 that appear to prevent condensing. I can get condensing by aligning the position of end of bar breath mark, but I cannot with the additional mark in Tenor2.
Thank you very much for your time and attention to this matter. I truly appreciate your help.
I removed the breath mark, but I haven’t been able to achieve the result you demonstrated. I’m not sure what I might be doing wrong.
I also noticed that Tenor 1 and 2 are appearing with two stems instead of as a2. Could you please explain how to have them display as a2 rather than with separate stems?
I’ve been trying to research and troubleshoot these two issues all day, but I haven’t had much success so far. Any further guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Sorry, in attempting to investigate this I made some changes to the Notation Options>Condensing (but failed to log them!). Take a look at the file I posted.
(Condensing has many subtleties and is perhaps still more art than science!)
