I want to move the notes from Voice 1 to Voice 2 and have a whole rest appear in Voice 1.
How do I change the voice?
Dorico help, search: change voice:
I’d suggest watching this video about how Voices work.
Changing existing voices is just after the 2 minute mark.
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Select your notes, press:
- V if there is already an existing second voice
- Shift+V in the other case
Invoke the caret on the first beat, upstem voice 1, Shift+B, type “rest”, Enter.
If you need whole rests to appear in the next bars as well, you can Alt+Click your rest.
Why doesn’t a whole rest appear when I use ‘Change Voice’?
Even when I create a new voice in the next voice, a whole rest does not appear.
The option @Vadian is talking about works if there are notes in this voice before and after the rests.
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The previous measure is empty.
It’s a down-stem Voice 1 — how can I change it so that it becomes two voices, and a whole rest appears in Voice 1?
If it’s for a special spot, and you don’t want to get plenty of rests everywhere else, then do this locally like I was explaining here:
If it is not working, maybe share (a part of) your file here, as it’s sometimes difficult to guess what’s getting wrong.
Use the Bars popover - Shift B, and type ‘rest’, in the bar you want the rest.
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I want to change bars 4 to 6.
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I created an upstem voice and entered the rests as explained here:
When I press Shift+B, type ‘rest’, and press Enter, the original notes disappear and only a whole rest remains.
That is because you have not yet changed the voice into which you are adding the rest!
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@k.k
Here is the process. There was no upstem voice (maybe because it’s a cutdown version of your project), so I had to create one, by pressing two times Shift+V (1st time = downstem voice 3, 2d time = upstem voice 1).
Once in the upstem voice, Shift+B, “rest”.
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I watched a video and was able to solve the problem. Thank you so much!
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There appears to be no way to move “backwards” with voices. How can one get back to inputting notes in voice one once one has entered some voices in voice 2?
‘v’ (not shift-v) will cycle through all instantiated voices.
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