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You can have multiple slash voices active at the same time. To accommodate all slash voices in

multiple-voice contexts, Dorico Elements changes their staff position automatically. However, you

can also change the staff position of rhythm slashes manually.

You can use slash regions and slash voices in the same project and at the same rhythmic

positions, for example, you can input a slash region where you do not want to be specic about

the rhythm, then input notes in a slash voice for a single bar where you want to specify an exact

rhythm.

RELATED LINKS

Rhythm slashes on page 869

Slash regions on page 869

Slashes in multiple-voice contexts on page 871

Changing the voice of existing notes on page 353

Changing the slash voice type

You can change the voice type of slash voices, for example, if you want to change a slash voice

from having stems to being stemless. You can also change the type to normal notes, which

restores the original pitches you input, and change normal notes to rhythm slashes.

NOTE

This affects all notes in the same voice. If you only want to change the slash voice type of some

notes, you must change the voice of those notes instead.

PROCEDURE

1. Select a note in the voice whose slash type you want to change.

2. Choose Edit > Voices > Rhythmic Slashes > [Voice type].

For example, to change a whole normal voice to a stemless slash voice, choose Edit >

Voices > Rhythmic Slashes > Slashes without Stems.

TIP

You can also choose these options from the context menu.

RESULT

The slash voice type of all notes in the same voice and ow as the selected note is changed.

If you change normal notes to a slash voice, they are all automatically positioned on a single staff

line. By default in single-voice contexts, this is the middle line of the staff.

If you change rhythm slashes to normal notes, their original pitches are restored, meaning their

staff positions

reect their pitches.