# Stems in upward-facing slash voices behave strange **URL:** \ **Category:** Dorico\ **Tags:** dorico-6\ **Created:** [May 18, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/stems-in-upward-facing-slash-voices-behave-strange/990807 "2025-05-18T18:53:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LeoW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@LeoW](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/LeoW)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/stems-in-upward-facing-slash-voices-behave-strange/990807/1 "2025-05-18T18:53:02Z")
For the left hand of a Styrian Accordion I’m writing the bass notes in an downward-facing voice while I write the chords as upward-facing slash voice. Although there are no other upward-facing voices in the way, the stems of the slash voice behave really strange - facing up and down with no real logic it seems. ![Bildschirmfoto 2025-05-18 um 20.52.34](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/original/4X/4/1/7/4179a6e3acd8f8438702c2a6a4a9385e9700a284.png) ---
**Author:** ![dspreadbury](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/dspreadbury/32/328687_2.png) [@dspreadbury](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/dspreadbury)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/stems-in-upward-facing-slash-voices-behave-strange/990807/2 "2025-05-18T21:58:55Z")
Could you attach a short excerpt of the project itself that we could take a look at? > [@Four simple guidelines to help us help you](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/four-simple-guidelines-to-help-us-help-you/123752): > > We are proud to say that the Dorico forum is friendly, supportive and constructive, and it’s our aim to keep it that way. Members of the Dorico development and support teams closely monitor the forum, and this is the place you can have a direct conversation with the people responsible for designing and building the application. The forum is also frequented by many expert users of the software, who generously give of their time to offer assistance to their fellow users. In order to keep the discu… ---
**Author:** ![LeoW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@LeoW](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/LeoW)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 9:47am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/stems-in-upward-facing-slash-voices-behave-strange/990807/3 "2025-05-19T09:47:42Z")
Here’s the beginning of the piece. In the meantime I forced all the stems of the slash voice to face upwards and everything else down. For this file I removed the forced stem direction to default. [Frühlingsstimmen.dorico](https://forums.steinberg.net/uploads/short-url/9MoRVHW8U0Q4Kb4mL7fpqhE5tXx.dorico) (937.6 KB)