Pressing the y key worked for the first note in this set of half-note triplets, but pressing the y key when I have another tom selected over the subsequent kick drum notes isn’t working - if I arrow over left or right the y key works but I want the toms rhythm to match the kick’s rhythm exact.
Before entering any Tom notation, do you create a tuplet?
I’m reasonably sure that simply going back after you’ve created the Kick tuplet won’t automatically enter other notes in a tuplet - you need to create one again.
The reason the first one would appear is because it’s on beat one, as is the first Kick note.
I may be wrong.
I’m confused. Why doesn’t the software allow entering something like Tom 5, then say, Tom 2, then Tom 1 over the kick drum half notes in the tuplet (3:2 triplet in this case)? Finale didn’t have a problem with it. This came from my exporting a MusicXML file from Finale and then importing it into Dorico. Almost all of the kick drum notes were dropped in Dorico so I’m trying to put them back in, and along with the kick notes getting dropped, the corresponding Tom notes were also dropped.
This is what I had entered in Finale:
This is how Dorico interpreted both of them:
Here is another attempt at just trying to enter the Toms, the first one worked for Tom 5 but when I arrowed up to Tom 2 and pressed y it just moved the caret over.
If I press y again it’ll put full value of the half note within the tuplet where I don’t want it (maybe Frank Zappa would be ok with it but not me).
Maybe I’m suffering from “Sax player trying to write rhythm part itis” - is there some kind of convention where all of the notes have to be on the same instrument within a Drum Set when creating a tuplet?
Check the stem/voice configuration in the kit.
Setup → (expand drum set) → Edit Percussion Kit.
My guess is when ‘y’ stops working is when you are changing voices (Toms).
EDIT: I should have been clearer: All the toms should have the same voice/stem allocation. I prefer downstem voice 1 for all kit peices except kick and pedal hat which I set to downstem voice 2.
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