I wish to have both the upper and lower triplets be 16th rest, 8th note, 16th note (or something like that). I thought the quantize feature would do this, but I could not get it to remove the triplet at all.
yes, manually cut the ties over to the next bar.
Make sure your rhythmic grid is set to eighth notes.
Select the two eighth notes of the tuplet.
With Alt pressed, use the left arrow key to move the notes one to the left.
Delete the tuplet.
You will end up with two straight eighth notes.
Then set the rhythmic grid to sixteenth notes.
Change the second note to a sixteenth note.
Select both notes again and shift them one to the right.
ps.: it seems like a lot of manual steps - but it is a good exercise at the same time - and doesn’t really take that long…