Good day. While developing a score, I added/deleted voices and rests. The result is that there are some bars that have timing anomalies. The time signature for my project is 4/4 however I have some measures that do not match that time signature. I am working with 2 voices and I did use the command to “remove rest” to clean the score, but am surprised that Dorico does not recognize this as an issue.
How can I use Dorico to show any bars where the notes do not accurately fit into the time signature? Below you can see that measures 2 and 3 do not match the 4/4 time.
By removing rests, you made the main voice empty there, which technically means the last notes before the gap got the property ‘ends voice’. If you open the properties panel at the bottom, you can see this property, and switch it off again. The rests will reappear.
Great information - thank you both. Do you know if it is possible to check the entire score for this issue or must I just be careful to proof-read/validate as I create the score?
Almost seems to be that this coud/would/should appear in the “Proofreading” panel. (IMO)
You can select all and reset the starts/ends voice property. But that would also reset any rests you have intentionally removed. You could perhaps filter for upstem voice 1 and just reset that voice (though the same caveat applies).
Dare I suggest that proofreading is becoming a dying skill as people expect the program to do all the hard work?
Since Dorico allows you to hide all/any notes as well as rests, how would that work?
What I used to do in Finale was to create a 3rd voice of quarter notes that I would hide on printing. This would prevent this from happening. I was hoping to get away from that with D.
What I can add is that part of my proofreading, I have also started listening to the project playing slowly with the metronome on. This helps to catch these “errors” aka anomalies that I have created.
