I spent hours trying to double the duration of a piano staff because a 2nd voice would not cooperate. The 2nd voice doubled okay, but the note positioning was seeming randomly messed up. It turns out that the start and end voice properties was the culprit. It was only after I removed them all that the 2nd voice would line up properly. Smells like a bug to me. I was able to ascertain this by cutting out the voice and pasting it to a new staff and seeing that a bunch of implicit rests were missing. Nothing I tried would bring back the rests though - not even changing the voice to upstem-voice-1. I had to do it one-by-one. Questions:
Is there a way to reset all of the start and end voice properties for a voice or staff en mass? (I don’t often see the property when I select more than one note… but sometimes I do!)
Now that I have my note durations doubled, is there a similar way to do the same for the chord symbols?
It’s not a bug.
If you are removing rests from the 2nd voice (which is what the starts/ends voice property does) there is no ‘duration’ for Dorico to double.
You can reset the voice properties simply by selecting all the notes and resetting the property sliders (there’s no need to hunt to find each one).
Be aware that if your 2nd voice starts at later than your 1st, double duration will not change that start point and you may need to re-align (select voice 2 and move using the alt-arrow keys)
Double note duration only affects notes. So chord symbols will not move. There is no comparable operation to move them.
Also be aware that tuplets will not double (yet?) and must be removed before doubling.
I would think that this could be made to work in a future release. After all, Dorico knows the exact position of every object, otherwise playback and engraving would not work. I think of removing an implicit rest as simply hiding it (but it’s still there in one way or another). Now that I think of it, is there a way to hide implicit rests without affecting the underlying start/end voice properties? Nevertheless, the Edit Duration feature is a life-saver, if you know about this (I don’t see anything about it in the manual).
