1st voice rests move up when I add a 3rd voice.
I'm writing lead sheet style charts with some important rhythmic kicks. What I'd like to do is have those kicks appear on top of the staff, so I'm trying to use the 3rd voice and rhythmic slash notation to notate these. The problem is that every time I add the 3rd voice to a bar, all the rests in that bar (in the 1st voice) jump up to be in line with the 3rd voice on top of the staff. I can fix this manually by lowering every single rest, but I was wondering if maybe someone had found a good workaround that isn't so tedious.
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Yes, this is unfortunate. Normally the existence of multiple voices would call for rests to be moved, but not in this case. You don't have to move them one by one, though. You can select the range, right click a rest, Select / All Similar Elements in Range Selection, then move them together via the Inspector.
In reply to Yes, this is unfortunate. by Marc Sabatella
Yeah, the problem is that in the bars where I don't enter anything in the 3rd voice, the rests don't move. So if I select all the rests, it moves the normal ones down below the staff.
In reply to Yeah, the problem is that in by Tommy Brownson
Right. that's why I suggested starting by selecting just the range you want to affect - the measures where you *are* using voice 3.
In reply to Right. that's why I suggested by Marc Sabatella
Ohhhhh, I didn't know about that functionality. Not the most elegant solution, but that will definitely help make it quicker.
Thanks a lot man!
In reply to Ohhhhh, I didn't know about by Tommy Brownson
You're welcome! FYI, someone did submit a bug report on this a while back, and there is a proposed fix, but there are issues with it so it hasn't been merged. See #100521: Rests collide when using accent notation (Toggle Rhythmic Slash Notation).