Voices, rests and dynamics in percussion kits

Dorico
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I’m lost trying to find the best approach to entering music in different voices with different dynamics in a percussion kit. I saw info in the forum suggesting switching to single-line instruments for note entry and tried that. Then I saw that you can switch individual notes through a rather complicated menu selection (edit-notations-percussion-voice). But now how can I enter/show rests when I want to in the other voices?
Any advice on best practices here would be great.
a) Finale original
b) entering in single-line
c) result after switching back to 5-line (no dynamics)
d) selecting individual notes and changing voice, but need a few rests still.

Is there no way to enter music (notes AND rests) in different voices as with regular staves?

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In general you don’t need to enter rests, even in percussion kits. See the options on the Percussion page of Library > Notation Options for Dorico’s approach to rests. You can also edit the default voice assignment for each instrument in the kit when shown in a five-line staff using the Edit Percussion Kit dialog.

If you ultimately want the music to be displayed in a five-line staff, I think I would be inclined to input it directly in that presentation: you can move the caret to different instruments in the kit using the up and down arrow keys, then hit Y to input a note at the caret position, or if you prefer you can pretend that the kit uses either a treble G or bass F clef, and then use the appropriate letter names for each position.