Most of the shift+letter commands in write mode are jumping to the next note when I press ‘space’. Trying shift+I I’ve experienced that it only accepts my input by pressing ‘enter’, and I need to press shift+I again after selecting the next note what makes the whole process much slower. Did I miss something, or it is as I’ve experienced?
Yeah, I assume is this is because you can have a lot of different input or conditions in the Note Tools popover, and some things like scale mapping require a space (I think). You can obviously select multiple notes before invoking Shift+I and apply something all at once to a large range of notes though. For example, for transposed part cleanup, I have a StreamDeck button that invokes Shift+I and the following command: ax=b, bx=c#, cx=d, dx=e, ex=f#, fx=g, gx=a, abb=g, bbb=a, cbb=bb, dbb=c, ebb=d, fbb=eb, gbb=f, b#=c, e#=f, cb=b, fb=e (Hat tip to @Xavier_Davis for that idea!)
In any case, you certainly don’t need to go note by note with that tool.
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Thanks for your reply @FredGUnn . The problem comes when they are various intervals for each notes. This case selecting a bunch of notes and adding an interval doesn’t really work unless I change them one by one.
Your second though may be a clue, but honestly I am too tired at the moment to comprend. So tomorrow morning I’ll have a go on it again and maybe light will come up in my head:)
Thanks anyway:)
Have you tried adding notes with the caret in chord mode? Might fit your task better.
If chord mode is letter Q, yes, I did. I feel it relatively slow, or I’m just unexperienced in it. This is why I thought today I should try using shift+I. I’m sure I’ll find the right way to be super quick in this task with Dorico but haven’t reached yet.
@FredGUnn can I ask you to explain what StreamDeck means?
You do raise a good point though. With the chord symbol popover, you can use the right arrow to advance to the next note or grid location. It would be nice if this would work with Shift+I too, that way you wouldn’t need to leave the popover and could continue input. (I guess you couldn’t use the arrows to navigate through text that way though. Maybe Shift+arrow or something could work?)
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Or you could combine Q (chord mode) with L (Lock duration). Then after adding a note (or notes) to your current chord, space will advance you to the next note (rinse and repeat)
It’s a hardware device where you can program custom macros to physical buttons. Here’s what mine looks like:
@Janus I’ll try it, thank you!
Looks cool, @FredGUnn !!!
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Please feel free to search for Stream Deck threads here at the forum, and they have a website showing the different models.
And there are already prepared profiles as below, so you do not need to create your own buttons and add in the key commands necessarily.
https://www.notationcentral.com/shop/?s=notation+express&post_type=product&filter_platform=dorico
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And if so, @arco, I dont need to do anything than plugging in and it works???
I do not have the Notation express for Dorico v5, I purchased for v3 a while ago. I am in the process of setting up some Dorico buttons at the moment, but just taking a few from the old version and adding my own, for a specific job I have to do.
But yes in theory look through the different profiles they have, some are for XL model, others for the smaller one, purchase the Stream Deck, and install the profile for it. You might need to get some feedback from forum members here as to which model to get, although I would think the XL, although being more expensive gives you more buttons for each page, so there would be less button pressing to get to any particular button (a button can open a button display of yet more buttons, so potentially hundreds of key commands or actions can be accommodated).
And then you might want to change a few buttons around to customize it to your purposes and workflow. (Copy/paste to another location or page.)
The new Stream Deck + has dials, which might be useful (not sure if there is a Notation express for it as it is just new), but you could set it up so turning the dial moves a note back or forward in the measure, or changes the time value (quarter to half note or quarter to eighth) which are key commands but turning a dial seems to be quite quick. I have one dial set up this way, so it does both … a dial can have different actions … so I turn it to move a note, or press it in (it clicks) and it now changes the note value instead, press it again and it might change the grid resolution (related to the other two actions) so all on one dial. I have another dial for volume another for zoom, and pressing it in it will set zoom to page.
All fun.
EDIT: some specific tasks like your [Shift] Intervals may not be all there, but easily set up. As you know there are many key commands and text entries so you would have to modify a profile for yourself if buttons/actions are not there. Notation Central probably has information about what they have in the profile and can give you more information, or ask here, someone would have it for Dorico v5.
Additionally, you can use Stream Decks elsewhere, in other software, create buttons for general use, buttons for launching programs or loading a website etc.
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Slightly OT
Screenshot of my Stream Deck Plus as I am setting it up. Buttons on the right for System track and signposts, press and they toggle on/off. The faded ones are generic ones which appear in any other page (layout), but they will go as I put more Dorico buttons there (I have an XL as well with most of the Dorico functions).
At the bottom, it shows a dial for only changing the Grid, each click of the dial increases or decreases the Resolution grid, I will probably move it to the other dial … being the Note length/move dial depending on which it shows, so with the one dial I can change grid, move note or change note value as previously mentioned.
Currently the right dial is only for zoom, I might add other functions.
Anything could change at this point, but I’m just giving you some idea of how they function and what to think about as you decide models etc. Many YouTubes on Stream Decks.
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I discovered Stream Deck just a few weeks ago and on the Mac in conjunction with Keyboard Maestro – there is a plugin to trigger KM macros from Stream Deck – it’s the ultimate time saver.
For example keystroke sequences like double dotted notes, tuplets and compound dynamics like p < f can be assigned to a single button.
I’m using the Mobile version with an iPad. Unlike the physical device the Dorico palettes are not configurable there, but you can switch to an 8 x 8 button grid and assign own actions to the empty buttons. And it’s pretty easy to create custom icons – the non-dark blue ones in the screenshot. I created the symbols in Apple Pages, removed the background in Preview.app and finally created the icons in Elgato’s Online Icon Creator
@Vadian thanks for the info! I got enthusiastic about the thing and made a quick search, but finally I decided not to buy it, as I’m not really handy on IT and am afraid it would be a great struggle even if the tool is gorgeus:)