Getting notes to merge as one upstem voice - Drum notation

[Manu-Morin]

Hi everyone,

How can I get the following measure to show up as one single upstem voice ? (See last screencapture for desired result)

Ive tried Right Clicking on the measure ➜ Percussion ➜ Change Voice ➜ Upstem Voice 1, but then the whole measure gets scrambled (triplets and note values).

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I simply don’t understand why Dorico behaves this way here.

Thanks !

PS - I currently have a temporary fix by Editing the Percussion kit in Setup Mode (placing all drums as “Upstem voice 1”, but this only works when the ENTIRE score requires a single upstem voice. What can I do when some measures require a single upstem voice, while others require 2 separate voices… ?

Desired result :

[Christian_R]

Hi @Manu-Morin , and welcome to the Forum, assuming you are using your kit as Drum set (*) you can look at the options in menu Library/Notation options/Percussion and set Use single voice for the desired flow/s, and also eventually choose Truncate to shortest duration (but first reset all your changes to avoid strange results…):

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[Manu-Morin]

Thank you for your reply Christian !
That worked very well !

From the suggested solution, I assume I cannot define the “voicing options” on a measure-by-measure basis… Right ?

• Using the percussion kit dialog box, I can apply the “rules” to all the flows at once.
• Using the Library/Notation options/Percussion, I can apply the “rules” to one flow at a time (independently of others)
• So the last question remaining is : Any way to apply this to only the selected measures of a flow ?

Thanks again !

[Christian_R]

@Manu-Morin

So the last question remaining is : Any way to apply this to only the selected measures of a flow ?

Hi @Manu-Morin , I think there are still some limitations when there are tuples in perc.-kits and manual voice assignment made directly in the score instead of in the kit himself. (Someone corrects me if there are some new functionalities). In this threads a similar thing was discussed:

Drum Sets: Wrong duration displayed

See attached project. The selected note is supposed to be an eighth note. No matter in which voice I put it, it’s being displayed wrongly. I am about to fill in my percussion soloists, and these kind of issue appeared over and over. In other situations I could renotate, but the issue is very annoying! Like this, percussion kits (in 5-line staff) are not really usable for me… Quite unfortunate, when notating a percussion concerto… weird drums.dorico (723.6 KB) [Bildschirmfoto 2022-08-23 um 2…

How to write a unison on a percussion grid

No, unfortunately that thread does not solve my problem - I already searched and attempted these solutions otherwise I would not have posted (I have read the community guidelines!) That solution (adding another instrument on the same staff) only works on a five line staff kit, but not in the GRID setting. That is why I wrote “The solution for a percussion kit - to add another instrument on the same staff line - does not apply to the grid layout. I also don’t seem to be able to add a unison (st…

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In other cases without tuplets, you could use the reverse workflow:

set the settings to Use single voice and Truncate to shortest duration (as in my post above), and in places where you need some notes to be different, use the Extra Down stem voice: