I think the trick is to know what you want before inputting your tuplet. If you are using the Notes Toolbox, presumably you are using the x:y option because the ratio of 9:8 is not there. Whenever you input any notes, you have to select a duration type, so if you have a quarter rest and you want nine notes to fill it and your input note value choice is 16ths, Dorico will input nine 16ths, but it will take up a half notes worth of duration, which is correct. If you select 32nd notes and input 9:8 then you will get the correct tuplet in the right amount of time. The only way you can get what you originally posted, in other words nine 16ths in the space of a quarter note is to select the ratio of 9:4. Presuming you know that you want 9 in the space of 8 you would not use this ratio, and if you have the incorrect note value selected, then you will discover that it is also wrong because your tuplet will take up too much room. So I’m not sure that the default is wrong, although I do sympathize because it can take a few goes to get it ‘right’, at least to begin with.
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