Moving notes within a playing loop

Hi

Short version:

while playing a loop of one bar, Is it possible to move notes and hear the new note without having to stop and restart playback?

Long version:

I’m doing a four part harmony course and am using Dorico to practice with. The course starts very simple, the first lesson is about perfect cadences using 3 part harmony and wants me to go away and try various options going from G to C.

OK, I can fill in a few bars with different options then play them back (which is what I’ve had to do) but it would be nice instead to have one or two bars playing on a loop where I simply move around one or more notes.

For example going from G to C, let’s presume the G is sorted.

For the C, in the bass clef I’m given the C below middle C, in the treble clef I’m given just the C above middle C

I now have to experiment adding either the E or G to the treble clef and also try different positions for all notes, to hear which sounds best etc.

What I want to do is add the G to the treble clef below the already present C. Then have that bar playing back looping, while it’s playing, I move the G down to the E and hear how that sounds, then maybe moving it to a higher E or G, maybe move the C down to middle C etc. All while playing back the loop.

Sadly, while I can happily move them around while it’s looping, it still only plays back the original notes unless I stop and restart playback.

If I moved say the G to the E, loop after loop it still only plays the G.

If I moved say the G to the E then stop and restart playing the loop, it correctly plays the E, but this means stopping and restarting every time I move a note which is not what I want.

Is this possible please?

Thanks

Perhaps an easier route would be to set your bottom two voices and then select the measure(s) and press R to repeat the measure(s) several times. Then you could play be the repeating measures and try different melodic solutions above them.

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Thanks, that’s a good suggestion. Oddly, when I try it in the iPad app, it works as I want, just not in the desktop version