I’ve been running into this multiple times now and as I’m currently working on a piece with many explicit and particular (de)crescendos it’s starting to really break up my creative workflow.
What I’m trying to do is have tied notes divided into particular note durations as to instruct the players when to precisely time the dynamic changes. I’d expect the Force Duration functionality to do precisely this, but it fails to do so. Instead, it merges both notes together not taking into account either note’s forced duration.
Am I doing something wrong, is this a bug, or is this simply not a feature?
Attached a screen recording of the issue.
First, make sure the notes are untied.
Then use Force Duration on each note one at a time, or enter them after turning on Force Duration. All the notes which will eventually be tied together must have their duration “forced” separately before tying. When you have done that, tie the notes. Hopefully their durations will stay how you set them.
Also, before de-activating Force Duration, click away from any notes which are still selected. Otherwise, if a note is still selected, its forced duration will revert to what it was before.