I’m coming to Dorico from Sibelius and before that Finale. I use notation software primarily for composing and experimenting, not typesetting existing music. I like to play on my keyboard for a bit, enter some notes, play some more, etc. For Finale and Sibelius, I had them set to “pitch before duration” so that a computer keyboard press was required for each note. The reason is that if it were set to “duration before pitch” and I forget to turn off note input before noodling on my piano, I would enter hundreds of notes and destroy what’s there.
With Dorico, I tried setting it to pitch before duration. It seemed to work at first (requiring a keyboard press), but after I had made some more edits such as adding a time sig, when I started to play at the keyboard it entered every note. (I hadn’t changed any note entry preferences, just selected a couple different tools in the meantime.)
Is there a foolproof way to prevent striking a note on the MIDI keyboard from entering it? I know I can turn off note entry, but I’m likely to forget that sometimes and the result would be destroying my score.
