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different rhythms. By default, music is combined into one up-stem voice and one down-stem

voice.

Alternatively, you can choose to notate all notes in a percussion kit in a single voice when the kit

is dened as a drum set on the Percussion page in Write > Notation Options. This convention is

used less frequently for orchestral percussion.

You can also override this option for individual percussion kits, and for individual notes in

percussion kits.

Notes in the same voice cannot be notated using different durations and are notated using ties

by default instead. You can eliminate the use of ties by choosing to truncate longer notes so that

only their onsets appear on the Percussion page in Notation Options.

If one of the instruments in a percussion kit has a tuplet rhythm, other instruments can share the

voice if their notation is compatible, such as if the tuplet structure is the same, or if they have a

single note that coincides with the start of the tuplet. In this case, the single non-tuplet note is

notated as the same duration of the rst note of the tuplet.

If the music of the different instruments in the same voice is incompatible, Dorico Elements

dynamically creates another voice and notates the remaining music in that voice until the music

is compatible again.