I have stream deck macros which apply up or down bow playing techniques. But what I really want them to do is:
apply a playing technique to a selected note and then move on to the next note.
That way I can apply a different or the same playing technique to a set of notes very quickly.
The problem is that as I apply the playing technique using shift P and then some string it leaves the playing technique selected rather than the note to which the playing technique was applied .
How can I leap back from a selected playing technique to the note to which it applies? Obviously I can’t use the mouse to do this. Shift-n looked promising but doesn’t do what we want.
Will this help?
After entering a down-bow playing technique on a note, the playing technique remained selected as you had described. To select the note to which the playing technique had been applied, I pressed shift-down arrow then right arrow followed by left arrow.
I tried that. It seems to work, although if there is also a dynamic applied to the note then the presses of the TAB key will cycle through the playing technique, the note and the dynamic.
However, pressing shift-TAB appears to work with fewer keystrokes than the method I posted earlier.
Yes, I believe shift+TAB will consistently return you to the note, whereas TAB is unpredictable based on context of what else might be attached to the note, if anything.
Not sure if what you were getting at is this or not, but adding shift+TAB to the StreamDeck button’s functionality is a sweet way of selecting a note, adding that playing technique and being right back where you started! That’s awesome if you’re just using the right arrow to work through a line of music hitting buttons on the SD as needed to add the necessary bowing or other playing techniques that you have programmed.
Its possible that the delays could be shortened. My experience of StreamDeck macros and AHK macros in general is that sometimes they execute too quickly for the software. I tend to play on the safe side.
I can highly recommend a Stream Deck as a productivity aid. The ‘trick’ is not to use it to do what Dorico does so brilliantly already* but to add functionality that otherwise takes too much typing. So a couple of pages of my Stream Deck look like:
I’m happy to share my stream Deck macros even though they are personally tailored for vocal and guitar music. Just ask!!
Sometimes I work while travelling and then I don’t have a streamdeck. So I try to make mybuttons explain what they do. Then I travel with a cardboard screenshot of the stream deck so I can remember!
