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I'm sorry if this has been mentioned before, I just don't know.
Why is there a limit when chords are entered manually. For example, if I enter the text string, "Dsus.bdpg,D.bdpg" in the entry at the 1 and 2 beat of the measure, it becomes "Dsus.bdpg, D.bdp" in the chord display. It truncates the last "g" right off and plays like you never entered the "g" too. This problem can be manually corrected by going into the chord settings dialogue box and making adjustments, but that's a bit of a pain. It's appears that the maximum number of characters allowed for entry appears to be around 15. Why not allow as much as will actually can be displayed? When you use the chord setting input panel it can cram "Dsus.bdpg,Dmaj7.bdpg" into the chord display "block" without any problem. So it is not limited to 15 characters in the display and it does play properly.
Has anyone else noticed this? Perhaps it's already included in an upcoming patch.
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You seem to have a point. Does the same on my display. I haven't tried setting the font for display to something different (or the number of chords displayed on one screen) to see if that changes anything.
As a work around you might try using the Bar Settings and muting the instrument(s) you don't want to play rather than taking up the space to type the instrument letters. Might not work for you if you are trying to rest at only certain beats and not whole measures.
Good luck.
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I hope this question does not deter from the original post, but I can't seem to figure out an "easier" way to display 3 chords in a waltz where only 2 notes are played.
The song I'm using is Emily by Johnny Mandel. The example I'll refer to is bar 34 where Db,Fm6, Fm7 are played against a "2 beat" half note g, and a "1 beat" f quarter note.
The only way I was able to figure out how to display the 3 chords was to make the 2 beat (g) into 2 quarter notes, then enter the additional chord, then go back and tie the 2 g's together, thus causing the program to display the 2 g's as one half note, and then the f (quarter note).
Is there another or a simplier way to do this? I looked for a display feature in the notation function that makes this happen to no avail.
An Inquiring mind would like to know,
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Yeah Wrkit, your question does tend to change the purpose of the original post. Probably should start your own thread so folks can respond to your particular question. BarryKJ, I am trying to mute on the beat, so bar settings won'tt quite cut it. This issue is related to the character length of the entry field, so changing the font size shouldn't have any effect. Given that no one has proposed a solution that works, I think it's safe to assume that this is a minor programming inconsistency that the programmers haven't had brought to their attention before. The functionality is all there, so it looks like it's just being limited by a field length limit in the coding for the chord entry blocks. I'll watch to see if Peter and his team pick this up in future patches. 
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DAW PC: Win11, Intel i9-12900 CPU, MSI MAG Z690 Tomahawk, 64GB RAM, ZOOM Livetrack L-12, Yorkville YSM1P-II Monitors
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