I have a note tied over a bar. I’ve tried inputting it as two notes tied, or as one long note which it tied itself. either way, it plays the crotchet as a quaver leaving a moments silence on the first beat of the bar. All other playback of crotchets and long notes seems fine. It just doesn’t seem tot like this part of the page.
Can you post a cut down version of the project which demonstrates the issue? That will make it easier for someone to figure out what’s going on.
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You’re going to have to give some more clues to avoid random guesswork. Preferably upload the file.
The first place I’d look is the Played Durations MIDI view. You can see that in the lower panel by selecting the two circled buttons:
This view shows the duration sent to the playback engine. Here you can see it’s a little less than the written duration, which is due to humanization settings. (The button to the right of the Played Durations button shows the written duration that’s used for the notation.)
This is my first time looking at the midi scroll, but as suspected, you can see the tied quaver in orange is not being expressed in the midi roll as a full quaver. Playback is clipped. Now I’m assuming I can draw out the playback ribbon to lengthen the sound, but, that’s a work around. To try and clear its memory, I put in a series of 16th notes across that section and it played back whatever I put in, but as soon as I put back in what I wanted, it doesn’t produce those ties correctly in the midi roll, its leaving a blank space. Other tied notes are working, and both notes here are saying its first voice. Even editing it whilst observing the midi roll now shows that it has drawn out a full length note, and still wont play what’s written on the midi roll, which is now correct.
You said that this note was playing back at half its notated value, which is not what the MIDI view shows.
Can you upload your project, or a cut-down version of it, so that someone can investigate? You can drag the project file directly into the edit message window, or you can use the Upload button.
Prelude III.dorico (1.6 MB)
Hi my mistake; I saw the blank afterwards and thought it hadn’t drawn out enough (there is a note off screen). However, its still not playing full length. Score provided.
Now I’ve manually drawn the note length out in the midi ribbon, it has overridden the playback. It was playing a quaver whilst written a s tied, and correctly drawn in midi. Seems I had to manually work it to get it to release something in memory. I don’t know if your opening the score will render it as I had it (with some kind of memory bug). Either way it has been eliminated. Much appreciated.
N.B I spoke too soon. I return to the project and the same issue is there. Even tying one long note over from the dotted crotchet to the quaver causes it to cut off at the start of the next bar.
It played correctly for me when I opened it.
As expected. I’ll try reopening.
It played OK for me too.
(OT: I see you have used many different voices. This is unnecessary - you only need two. Also there are places where you have slurs, but you probably intended ties)
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Yes, well as I mentioned in another post, I found make new voice to be Shift +V, until someone pointed out just V on its own makes a new voice. Although it didn’t mention that in the book on whatever page I was on. I’m still not sure about how it works. I can only get a new voice to appear if i select on a note of a part existing, and then it deletes the first note of the theme and makes it the new voice. And so have to tidy up the old voice before writing in new one. I’ll look for a video on it. Someone explained that to me after I pointed out why do I have 9 voices in 2-part writing. Please Dorico, make it simpler. I beseech thee. In the name of Dorico.
No it doesn’t.
V cycles between existing voices. Only shift-V creates a new voice.
You might find it useful to turn on voice colors (view>note and rest colors…) to see what’s going on.
You can change a note to a different voice simply by selecting and hitting V (perhaps more than once as you cycle through the voices) and you can use the filter to isolate specific voices and change voice all at once.
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@judsonics
If you study the videos that I suggested you yesterday in this post (click me), you will find all explanations you need, especially in the video nr. 19 in the Note Input playlist:
Also in the Manual it is very clearly explained:
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All sounds as expected on my system: