The docs say “If you want to input multi-note tremolos, you must select at least two notes that are in the same voice, have the same duration, and are notated using a single notehead.”
I don’t understand what the bolded part means. I can create multi-note tremolos between chords, between a single note and a chord, and between notes and chords that have different combinations of notehead sets. So what restriction is being referenced here?
cc: @Lillie_Harris
You can’t create a multinote tremolo where you have one dotted quarter and one quarter tied to an 8th. There are dozens of threads on this forum where people don’t understand why it doesn’t work. And honestly, since Dorico is about semantics, I would have loved to see Dorico understand that it needs to perform the operation just as if force duration were used. Alas, up until now, it’s not possible, the user has to make sure that the notes are expressed as one single and equal note (as in occupying one spot in a voice column) at both ends of the multinote tremolo.
Ah, okay – using a single notehead horizontally, not vertically. Thank you for clarifying.
I agree with you that, given Dorico’s model of treating a tie chain as a single “note”, the case you describe should work.