I’m curious why, when I paste something onto a staff after a slash voice passage, the whole rests suddenly appear over the slash voice. I know I can “remove rests”, but it’s pretty tedious. Am I missing something?
Thank you pianoleo. So I guess this is really just . . . a bug? Can we classify it as that? Or perhaps it’s just a consequence of not separating out the difference between how slash/rhythm voices tend to behave in real musical situations. I can see the reasons why the rests should appear if I were dealing with two different musical voices. But in this case, Dorico forces me to use a new “voice” to create the slashes, which are really not a separate musical voice, but rather a change in what the primary voice is doing.
If you want to keep those notes in the same voice as the surrounding pitched notes, you could instead just change the notehead set used for those notes.
A slash voice is another voice and Dorico treats it as such.
That’s a good suggestion, thanks . . . except that I would also have to change the pitches of the notes to whatever will make the slashes appear on the center of the staff, right? In this type of case—and I suspect I’m not alone in this process—I often copy figures from other staves into a drum part, and then change to a slash voice as a way to give the drummer basic rhythm information. If I change the note set, I would also have to adjust the pitches, which would probably be more involved than having to remove the rests. But I appreciate the suggestion, since I had forgotten that notehead sets were an option at all.