Clearly I’m not doing this the right way. I want a down stem voice to show kick and HH alternating in 8th notes. I want a separate upstem voice to show 16th notes in the toms. I enter the downstem voice first. Then I tried to enter the toms in 16ths. They automatically get beamed with the downstem voices. This turns the downstem kick and HH into tied 16ths. That looks like total crap and is not useable. I want the toms stem to point up and the HH and kick to remain 8ths, not tied 16ths. When I go to the right click options and select Percussion-Change Voice, I can get the entire part to swap up and down stems but I can’t separate the two voices. What am I doing wrong?
You have a problem with the voice used for the instrument standing on the 4th line. In Setup mode, open the Drum player’s card, so that you see the green kit instrument, open its menu>edit percussion kit. In that editor, select that 4th line instrument, make sure it’s set to up-stem voice (there’s a button for that in the editor) and apply. It should be solved. Rinse and repeat for any other percussion instrument in the kit that is not in your expected voice!
fantastic. thanks. that seems to have solved the problem. Does that mean that voices are permanently set to be either up or down and that can’t be changed on a measure by measure basis?
They are supposed to stay the same, yes. You can change their direction locally, selecting them and pressing F (flip) or changing their property.
Note that there are some interesting options under Notation options>Percussion, for instance an option that gets rid of ties by renotating the notes representation, to “clear the mess” (but leaves your music intact).
Hey all! Adding to this thread.
I want to make the snare and tom stems go up as quavers and the bass stem go down as crotchets, but I’m having trouble figuring out how to solve this (image attached, where all the stems are currently in the same direction). I’ve been trying to add the voice button, but it’s not doing anything. It seems like there’s a bug, as when I click this, the transport/playback at the top right is flashing as if it’s refreshing. Any help would be great!
Welcome to the forum @joshuafulcher135
- Goto Setup Mode and show the left zone.
- Open the Drum Set player.
- Click on the three dots and select Edit Percussion Kit….
In the dialog select the snare drum and the floor tom and change the stem direction
Hi Vadian,
I tried this, and it’s messed up the rest of the part. Basically, I only want the stem direction to change in this specific bar to make it easier to read. I’ve also noticed that now, because of the stems going down, it’s added bar rests where I’ve used hi-hat, and I can’t get it off as it’s not stating that there’s separate voices involved…
You can hide bar rests in Notation Options > Percussion
Tried that and still no luck
In the Edit Percussion Kit Dialog you can also specify the voice of each instrument.