Best way to enter notes outside MIDI keyboard range?

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Hello!

I have been using my Arturia Keylab Essential 61 (keys) to enter in notes in Dorico, with much success. But occasionally, I need to enter in notes outside of the range of my 61 key MIDI keyboard, which has been a bit awkward. I haven’t found the most efficient way to do this yet, and search results aren’t turning up much.

What do you all do to enter in notes outside of your MIDI keyboard range quickly? Are there shortcuts you use on your keyboard? Or is the fastest way to enter the notes in a range you can do and manually select that passage to transpose up/down by an octave?

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Isn’t there an octave shift button on the Arturia?

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:man_facepalming: I feel so dumb.

Yes. There is. And it works perfectly. Thanks!

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Devin, if you have a 61 key Keyboard, this question probably hardly ever surfaced.
A lot of us use 49 keyed Midi keyboards or even smaller ones with 32 keys. Of course we know how to shift by an octave or two :slight_smile:

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I even get by with a silly 2-octave keyboard! I can’t play open-voiced major triads on A, B♭ or B, but it’s pretty useful otherwise.