Hello all,
I’m fairly new to music writing and certainly new to Dorico. I’m trying to write simple songs so that I can understand how to work with Dorico and I ran in an issue that I cant figure out. I basically wrote 16 quarter notes without a time signature assigned to them. They sounded as I expected them to. I then assigned the time signature 4/4 which meant 4 measures for all 16 notes which makes sense. I then selected all the notes and changed their duration on the duration panel to 16ths. I was expecting all the notes to fit into a single measure but instead what I got was 16th notes with rests between the notes and now it sounded staccato and still only four notes per measure. I got rid of the rests and I still get four 16th notes per measure and still sounding staccato. What am I missing? I attached some images of what I’m talking about.
This is the original quarter notes
16ths_wRest.JPG
this is right after changing the duration
16ths_noRest.JPG
and this is after getting rid of the rests.
Thank you very much for taking the time to answer.