Hi, I want to select a long passage that contains many repeated notes, and I want to join all the repeated notes together. For example, three repeated eighth notes would become a dotted quarter, four repeated eighths would become a half note. And even better to include 16ths — 6 repeated sixteenths would become a dotted quarter, etc… Is such a thing possible?
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You can select the notes you want for this and then press t .
This should do it.
Best,
Stephan
(I thought of the Tie route too, but with the CAVEAT: consecutive notes of different length, but the same pitch will all combine into a single note)
I don’t know if images can be copies here, but if so, you can see that “t” doesn’t work perfectly
You would need to do this for each individual group of notes you want to tie, not the whole phrase.
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I have a long section, and I was hoping there was a way to do this to a section, as opposed to note group by note group.
ties will only condense notes of the same pitch. if want to extend the value of a note. shift-alt-r arrow key
Select the section, press t, then press u to untie. Any groups of repeated notes that were turned into ”new” note values will stay that way.
To have dotted quarters, make sure to allow for that in notation options.
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LAE - brilliant! Thank you. and tom_, thanks for the shift-alt-r-arrow, tip, too. New to Dorico. Thanks for your support.