I’m need to turn off the Auto-Quantize. I read that it is available to me in the Score Settings. But I do not know how to find that dialog box. Please help.
Welcome to the forum.
I don’t think that is possible. Dorico will always quantize recorded MIDI because it needs to be able to notate it.
The quantization settings are in Preferences>Play>Quantization
You can re-quantize any selection using Edit>Re-quantize…
Thank you. It is nice to find that. Although when I did that nothing changed. And perhaps I didn’t explain enough. I am trying to enter a whole note. Dorico is inputting a quarter tied to a dotted half note. How do I get it to input the note I am asking it for (a whole note is what is highlighted in Write mode)?
Are you recording notes in real time, or are you using normal note by note input?
note by note input - no midi keyboard
Then I’m very confused! What’s your time signature?
(can you upload a screenshot?)
I am working on a psalm chant. the top E notes will be hidden. but as you can see, I have odd notation going on in both voices.
The Help page told me to go to the Score settings menu (with a picture of it) and turn off Auto-Quanitization. I can’t figure out where Score settings is.
Hi @kathie.riebe,
select you time signature, press enter and in the popover just write [10+4]/4
This will tell Dorico to group the last 4 quarters into a group, so your whole note will not be subdivided :
It seems that the default grouping of 14/4 would be otherwise [4+4+3+3]/4:
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Which help page?
(I was gazumped by @Christian_R on the fix for your problem)
BRILLIANT! Thank you so much.
So if this is the way to fix the problem, if it happens again in other spots (like the first note) of the measure, I just play around with the numbers inside the brackets?
Yes, Janus. Me too. But it works.
Any help on how to hide the time signature? I’ve got all of this in Finale but plodding my way through the learning curve with Dorico.
Yes, you can define grouping of beats. And if you put them in square brackets, Dorico will only display the sum of the beats, but will subdivide the groups as desired. (I added a further explanation screenshot to my previous post 
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Thank you so much, Christian. VERY helpful.
Thank you, Janus for your help.
But why not write the whole section in open meter? Much simpler …
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That sounds like the Help page for CUBASE, not Dorico! (Both Steinberg products, but very different.)
Go to the Help pages from the Help menu. Don’t search in Google. And don’t use AI…!!!
Back to your example:
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This type of notation can be achieved very easily:
Just type “open” in the meter popup where the recitation part starts. Input your notes. Whereever you want a barline: Shift-B and “|” or “||” (pipe symbols).
Then input the text, using non breaking spaces Shift-Alt/Opt-Space for the recitation part. Align this part of the text (on the breve) left:
There is no need to input all those auxiliary notes then.
Time signatures are not needed where they are not needed: Dorico is not measure bound as other programs.
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Types of time signatures:
Text input:
If this solves your problem, mark it as Solution 
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