Reduce - Explode sequence selection bug

Dorico
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I’m not sure if that has been reported already but there has been a bug with Explode/Reduce since it has been introduced, that I stumble across every once in a while and just haven’t gotten around to report it.

I sometimes work in a way that I need to reduce notes right before needing to explode them again. E.g. I’m collecting all notes from string harmonies that I then want to distribute differently to e.g. the woodwinds. For this task I select the notes in the strings, press Ctrl+C, select one staff in the woodwinds and reduce them to that staff as a placeholder. I then copy that selection again, select the individual woodwind staves and explode to these.

However in that process there is a bug that apparantly has to do with the selection. After reduction, the chords remain selected. However if I use that selection to copy and explode, the result will not be as expected with explode creating multiple notes where there shouldn’t be. To make it work I have to deselect after Reduction, Select again, Copy and then Explode.

It is not a huge deal but it would save me quite some time if it worked straight away without needing to deselect and reselect.

Robin

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I don’ t think it’s a bug. Surely having created your ‘placeholder’ you should cut it, rather than copy, before exploding.

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There’s no difference in the result between copying and cutting. The explode procedure after either does not work as expected.

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can you show an example of what goes wrong?

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Sorry, I cannot reproduce. This is what I get (without deselecting/reselecting the chord)…

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Interesting, you are right. If I do it in a new document it works as expected. However in my standard template it creates this unexpected behavior. Guess I need to dig a bit deeper on this issue.

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Try repeated notes in the first of your bars. Single chords work as expected for me too, just if there are more chords it creates that unexpected behavior.

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You are right. Very strange.

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I’d like to bring this topic back to attention in spite of knowing that bumping is not appreciated here but as I haven’t heard anything on this since September and still constantly run into this problem I think it is worth mentioning it again.