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General Discussion / Stuck grace notes + fermata
I have observed some discrepancy in how grace notes are played back. Perhaps it is known from before, but it was new to me. To hear it properly, use a slow tempo like quarter=60 and some instrument patch that is sustained (i.e. a wind or string). First a clip that plays back OK:

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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-1
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:3^
|TempoVariance|Style:Fermata|Pause:4|Pos:8|Justify:Center|Placement:AtNextNote
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

Then I change the end note value to a sixteenth, which seems to be played back in parallel with the grace notes, effective like the grace notes were stuck?

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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-1
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:3^
|TempoVariance|Style:Fermata|Pause:4|Pos:8|Justify:Center|Placement:AtNextNote
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

Add one more grace note, and the effect is even more noticeable:

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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-1
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:3^
|TempoVariance|Style:Fermata|Pause:4|Pos:8|Justify:Center|Placement:AtNextNote
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

Finally, as a side-effect, I noticed that if the fermata is moved to the note just next to the grace notes, the playback delay happens for the first of the grace notes, rather than lengthen the actual note where the fermata is. This is true both for the case where grace notes get stuck and not:

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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-1
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|TempoVariance|Style:Fermata|Pause:4|Pos:8|Justify:Center|Placement:AtNextNote
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:3^|Opts:Stem=Down
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

Based on my experimenting, it seems the bigger number of grace notes, the longer note must follow to prevent the grace notes from sticking; i.e. two grace notes require a dotted sixteenth, three grace => an eigth, four or five grace => a dotted eight and so on? :-?

I am using Public Preview 1z. This was my first post pasting notation, I hope it worked OK.