A minor SW glitch? Iterating between notes with arrow keys inconsistent

Dorico
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Dear forum,

I found old threads that discuss that the arrow keys does not iterate between all notes, e.g. in a chord.

In this chord for example.

Using the up arrow will select only some of the notes and when using the down arrow - again other notes will be selected.

So before somebody hopefully enlighten me, I have to manually select the notes that are skipped with the mouse. There must be a way to avoid that?

Btw recently discovered that if one note is selected, pressing the tab key will select all notes and even play it back.

Thanks

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I cannot reproduce this behaviour (sorry)

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Are they in the same voice?

Jesper

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That was my first thought as well, but even in different voices (bar 2) I can cycle through all the notes with the Up/Down arrows.

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@steinfeld is this an XML import? (Also because there appear to be 8 beats in a 4/4 bar). Could you post the file, perhaps cut down to that one bar?

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Yup, me too.

Jesper

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Hmm.. what is wrong in my end, then? The document is not imported xml, just built from one of the templates.
It only happens when the chord is spread out.

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Ah, it’s a cluster (I thought there were 8 beats in the bar). Indeed I can replicate this when I add them all to the same beat. Apparently Dorico’s navigation gets confused then and doesn’t cycle through the different notes chromatically. I do think this is limited to this type of situation (i.e. writing a chord with so many notes close together that they can’t fit in one stack).

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Yes and clusters are among the most important things in life :sweat_smile:

Anyways, I really like to cycle through the notes and give each note a listen. Transpose it or delete it.

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@steinfeld,

In the “sharp” section of the cluster, is there really a need for the ‘E’ ?

My guess is that the ‘E’ is not needed in the “sharp” section.

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No @PeterThomsen I agree there’s no need for the E, it’s just an example. All chords that cannot fit in one stack skips some notes - at least on my system - like it’s happening in the video. I would love to be able to hear all notes with that arrow keys.