Let’s please not discuss what a player could or could not play. That has nothing to do with the issues I am having. You suggested I “rewrite” the grace note passage to get rid of the rests. @Derrek, how did you get rid of all the rests embedded between the notes?
One Big Question: Without starting over (and losing hours of work), how could I best get my current project to remove all note offsets so what’s notated is what Dorico has stored for all notes? And if I do this, should I expect a bunch of stuff to move around, or will it just remove the offset properties?
If you select the passage of music and choose Play > Reset Playback Overrides, the notation will remain exactly the same, and the start/end offsets of the notes will be removed.
This is probably the wrong way to work with Dorico. Notation is only ever an approximation to live (human) performance. So first get your midi to produce the notation that you want and then apply the humanisation to get the playback you want.
I realize this in retrospect - and in addition, I don’t want to use the Dorico version as the source of a generated performance (Logic produces a better one), so preserving the humanization was pointless.
I erased what you had in measure 1 and retyped the notes as grace notes. Then I added an explicit rest to keep it from interfering with the grace notes I moved to before barline.
I have it reworked (making use of the Key Editor) and the only difference between it and yours is that yours is notated following the whole rest in the bar, but mine gets displayed over the top of it:
In order to prevent the whole rest from conflicting, I exchanged Dorico’s automatic (implicit) measure rest for an explicit rest that positions itself nearer the start of the measure.
I think I entered a whole note in Forced Duration and then converted it to a rest to get the explicit rest.
I had to drag through that one frame at a time to follow it, but I got it to work. Thanks @Derrek for the original idea!
One thing - this whole conversation has heavily eroded my sense of Dorico being “intuitive”.
