Edit Percussion Kit: Changing stem direction changes notehead?

Hi there! Hopefully a quick question…

In my drum set parts, I like to have things played with the hands have upward stems, and things played with the feet have downward stems.

Why is it that when I change the direction of the stem of the snare drum in “Edit Percussion Kit” it changes the notehead as well? If I then try to force a notehead using “Edit Noteheads” it does not seem to affect it (when the stem is up and the notehead has changed… seems to work normally when stem is down…)

Snare stem down:

Snare stem up:

Thanks!

Also note that when sending cues to other staves, the correct notehead is shown…

It looks like somehow there may be some confusion (not necessarily of your making) between the snare instrument and the slashes instrument in the kit. Off the top of my head I’m not sure how this could happen. Can you attach the project itself here, or a cut-down version of it just containing a few bars of the drum set part, so I can take a closer look?

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Thank you for taking a look! :+1::pray:

Les Champs-Élysées_2025-01-23.dorico (3.3 MB)

I’ve had a chance to mess around with this a little more, but still haven’t found a solution. For now I’ll just set the drum set kit presentation to use a single voice to get me through this job. I’m not a huge fan of the look, but until this gets sorted it’ll do the biz. The drummers in my little clique (and in our clique’s pay scale) are used to worse :joy: Please keep me posted if you find a fix.

Thanks!

Hmmm. Now I’m really wondering if it’s just me or this file or something here… If this was happening to everyone, I’d imagine everyone here would have heard about it.

As I mentioned in the last post, I set the drum set kit presentation to use a single voice in Notation Options. I was thinking somehow this would change things. This is what I get for thinking hahah. Ahem.

I am entering the simplest of swing beats, and everything looks okay:

then, if I go to Edit Percussion Kit and add the instrument “slash with stems” to the middle line (and this is without futzing with stem directions anywhere) it all changes to this this:

This was on a brand new drum set player I created, so there shouldn’t have been any cruft from all my past fiddling.

Workaround to get me paid haha is that I’ll notate everything and not use any slashes. I do wonder what I’m doing that’s causing this.

This is admittedly a different file from before… but I did use the earlier file as a template. File excerpt is here: Dropbox

I’m just gonna plug ahead.

Thanks!