Reactivating the voice preceding the rest in question by deselecting the “ends voice” property will make the rests repopulate.
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Just realized one thing. I am putting a slow tempo on the fermatas so they are performed by Dorco, then hiding this tempo mark. That works. However, after the fermata I write “a tempo”, but this a tempo is playing the slow tempo of the fermata, not the piece’s tempo. This might be expected as Dorico doesn’t know that my slow tempo is only for the fermata.
Therefore, I tried to insert the piece’s tempo again and hide it. However, when I do that, the “a tempo” mark disappears.
How do I keep the “a tempo” mark and ask it to play the tempo I want (the piece’s tempo, not the fermata’s one)?
“A tempo” is a relative tempo mark that can’t show an absolute tempo at the same position. Probably your best bet would be to insert a real absolute tempo change that restores the original tempo and hide it via the Properties panel, then create a system-attached text item (which will appear on the same staves on which the real tempo item would appear) for the “a tempo” marking.
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I can imagine it!
Well, for a fermata playback, I usually insert a hidden tempo mark where a quarter note may equal to 30bpm or 20bpm.
(Or just add the tempo text after adding just the metronome mark, using the Properties panel > Tempo group > Text field, and activating “Text shown”. As long as you add “a tempo” not via the popover, it won’t be interpreted as a relative tempo change.)
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The feature is still not included in this 5th new version?
No
Jesper
Workaround is to use a rit. that has a target tempo of 1% and a width of one beat, followed by a tempo. Then hide these marks by making them white. And put a fermata over the note.
Every time somebody says, “it shouldn’t be a hard bit of programming”, a software developer somewhere dies.
This is funny yet I’m skeptical. More likely the project manager is not thinking outside the box. Fermata playback could likely ‘easily’ be faked internally by applying a similarly hidden, “rit. to 0.01%; a tempo” on a very small division of the beat, until it is replaced in the future with a better, realistic ‘virtual conductor algorithm’.
My current composing solution is to never use fermatas anyway, for live performer scores. They have wasted time in all my performance rehearsals and are too inaccurate in performance. So, write without them: use metered time and metered rests. (Similarly, with “G.P.” markings.) Fermatas would be only mildly handy in virtual playback just as a score shorthand to avoid having to insert extra bars/beats.
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Or, rather than inputting items that you then have to force-hide using colors that require you to print/export in color in order to keep them hidden, draw in the change in tempo you want for the fermata in the Tempo editor. Anything you draw in the Tempo editor isn’t shown in the music by default; points appear as signposts only.
Didn’t that get fixed in 4.3 or something?
Jesper
Sorry to have to say, but that’s just plain insulting.
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Actually I’m increasingly inclined to agree with you on this one which is probably why the continuing absence of fermata is less of an annoyance than it used to be, And of course we all know what the workarounds are as they’ve been documented countless times.
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