Voices lost in paste special

Dorico
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When I paste a section containing more than one voice from one staff to another, the voice settings are lost and all the voices are combined into one voice. Of course I can fix this manually, but it would be nice if, for example, Duplicate to Staff Below maintained the voices already organized.

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In these cases you can go the traditional way: select and copy the source staff, then select the target staff and paste. This will retain the voicing.

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Or select and alt click to new stave.

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Thanks, good suggestions.

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Out of curiosity, I found that the following procedure works:

  1. Make the selection and filter it to select only Down-stem Voice 1
  2. Duplicate to Staff Below and, while the duplicated notes are still selected, change the notes to Down-stem Voice 1
  3. Make the selection on the original staff and filter it to select only Up-stem Voice 1
  4. Duplicate to Staff Below

The result should have the two voices separated on the target staff.

If the procedure is tried with Up-stem Voice 1 being operated on first, followed by Down-stem Voice 1, the results are the same as you experienced when you selected them all and used Duplicate to Staff Below, ie all the notes are placed into Up-stem Voice 1.

Of course, what I did has many more steps and takes a lot longer, but I was interested to find out what worked and what didn’t.

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