Revisiting Preces: separate flows, separate tempo markings?

Dorico
#1

I just revisited some preces & responses I had entered in Dorico 1, even before Daniel had written his blog article describing how to put them into a layout.

I updated them to Dorico 4.1.10, of course, and faced a surprise when I played them back, which I doubt I ever did when I first entered the notation. They were much too slow, and changing the initial tempo mark seemed to do nothing to speed them up.

Am I correct that I need to add a (hidden) tempo mark to each flow, in other words each chanting tone and each response? Is there a way to assign the same tempo to all flows at once?

#2

Yes, you’ll need to assign a tempo to each Flow. Like all signposts, you can select one and alt-click to copy it to a new location.

#3

I’m fairly sure that setting playback to use a fixed tempo, and then setting that to whatever you want, should work across flows.

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#4

Thank you , Lillie and Ben. I think that, in spite of the extra work involve, copying (or ALT+Clicking) the tempo gives me more flexibility if I need to change the tempo for a specific response. At the same time, I had not thought of the Fixed Tempo solution, and it is nice to have that in my arsenal.

#5

Yes, I’d forgotten about that, too!

#6

Hey, if it works for you, it works for you :slight_smile: there’s never any obligation to take on board anything I say to the letter! It’s all just info.

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