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I'm working on a piece and have already entered all the notes, however I decided one measure needed a few more beats to give the notes a bit more room to linger. I'd like to change just one bar of 4/4 to 6/4 and just fill the empty space with rests or something.
Right now when I change the bar to 6/4, the first two beats of the next measure get tacked onto the end of the 6/4 measure so entire rest of the score essentially gets pushed back two beats. Is there any way to avoid having to manually move everything so the following measure starts exactly like it used to?
I hope I'm explaining my issue clearly.
Edit: I'm on Dorico 5 in case that matters

I'm having trouble with cutaways in my piano part. I have been using manual cutaways, and for a while they were working. Inexplicably they have stopped working. Here is the process:

1. Go to Library > Layout Options > Staves & Systems (piano selected), turn on "allow individual staves to be cut away independently".

2. Select the empty measures in the piano part, right click > Staff > Create Manual Cutaway.

Nothing happens. It is worth noting that this part used to have some notes in the staff, but I deleted them and now want to have it disappear.

- The option "automatically cut away empty staves" has not worked

- The option to hide empty staves or allow individual staves of multi stave instruments to be hidden has not worked.

Any tips? is this just a bug I've found? Am I approaching this the wrong way?

I just started learning Dorico and picked a few piano scores to practice note input. One of them is a Chopin Prelude, and I ran into a notation problem that I can’t seem to solve correctly.

In the reference score, the two circled notes are written as eighth notes, but I can’t reproduce this properly in Dorico.

1. I tried using Force Duration. It does rewrite the first B into an eighth note correctly, but then the “Starts Voice” property disappears, so Dorico inserts a rest before the note.

2. I completely can’t figure out the second eighth note. It feels like the Up-stem Voice contains six 16th notes, while the Down-stem Voice contains seven 16th notes in the same span. How is this supposed to be entered in Dorico?

I’m probably missing some fundamental Dorico voice logic here. Any help would be appreciated.

Reference

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