I would like to swap the key commands for Create tempo and create playing technique as i’ll need to create playing techniques far more often than i’ll create tempos, however, when I go to the key commands in preferences, not only do I not see the default Shift+P assigned to the create playing techniques popover, but I can’t seem to edit nor add a keycommand for this. Ideally i could assign the popover menu to Shift+T so i can they type what technique i’d liket to add instead of typing shift P. Can anyone help me understand why some default keyboard shortcuts assignments are not viewable nor editable in the key commands UI? Is Shift+P unalterable?
Ty,
Btw, I can’t interact with the press shortcut, nor add command buttons here, and below is what the tempo keycommand ui looks like which is what i would have expected the playing techniques ui to look like but its not interact-able.
Hi @rshughes, that is a folder, which contains many other commands (you can assign shortcuts to those contained commands). This sis the same for example for Create text:
Not sure how to change the Shift+P shortcut the popup. Possibly you need to edit the keycommands_en.json file contained in the App package itself.
I just watching a video of someone who had done that in 3.5 five years ago and couldn’t find my keycommands json file until I created a custom key command for Create Guitar Bend, which didn’t even do anything when I selected the note and pressed it. However, when I open the keycommands file it only had info for the custom guitar bend I had just added, not all the default under the hood assignments. How do I view default assignments from the Json file when it seems to only show custom changes?
This is like my 3rd day of using this and I need to edit .json files?
Hi @rshughes, I tried and indeed you can edit the keycommands_en.json that you find inside the Dorico system folder (the same very file that registers your custom shortcuts) on macOS: ~Library/Application Support/Steinberg/Dorico 6.
You need to attach this two strings in the "context" : "kWriteMode" section: one to delete the shift+P shortcut, and one to insert your custom one (in my example shift+K):
Make a copy of your json file before changing anything, in case it goes wrong.
However, returning to your initial post:
I don’t quite understand what would be the advantage of swapping shift+P and shift+T…??
Hi Christian, thanks for trying to help me. Below is what my key commands json file looks like:
I only see the custom one i added, not the full list of commands. Is there something i can do to make the full list of assigned commands appear in this file?
Those are visible in the keycommands_en.json file that you find inside the App package itself (in Application folder, right click on Dorico>Show Package Contents), but I wouldn’t suggest messing with that, if you are not sure what you are doing: you can just visualise and copy the desired string, to then paste it in the other json file in the library, as I show in my previous screenshot.
(If you need a visualisation of the keyboard shortcuts, the official ways is to go in menu Help>Key Commands.)
Always make a backup of the file before changing…
Ok great I’ll give this a shot, and worst case scenario if my keycommands json file gets screwed up, if I delete the json file at that directory will that just bring me back to default dorico keyboard shortcut assignments or could it be worse than that?
Make a backup of the current working json file, and in case something happens, delete the edited one and use the backup one.
Could it be something that was changed from Dorico 5 to 6? I customized my shortcuts in Dorico Pro 5 and it certainly let me do that using the normal key command settings. So much so, that my key command for “Create Playing Technique” is Command+T, instead of the default SHIFT+P. Now in Dorico 6, I cannot switch it anymore. It would be great if Steinberg added that capability back into Dorico.
I’m not aware of any changes in Dorico 6, and I’ve set and changed several key commands successfully.
Can you describe what’s happening for you?
I cannot change the key command for “Create Playing Techniques” which has multiple sub-commands inside of it. Others like “Create Dynamic”, I can easily modify the key command, but for Create Playing Technique, or Create Text, for instance, the option to put a new key command is simply greyed out.
This would be under Preferences > Key Commands > Note Input > Create Playing Technique.
Ah, you’re right about Create Playing Technique. In v5, this was a single item, to open the popover; in v6, you can now assign key commands directly to individual playing techniques, but you can no longer change the Create Playing Technique key command in the UI.
(For Create Text, which works the same way in v5 and v6, the main shortcut is under Create Text > Default Text.)
If you want to change the shortcut for Create Playing Technique in v6, you can use the method outlined above by @Christian_R. In fact, if you still have v5 installed, you can just copy and paste the relevant lines from your v5 key_commands JSON file.
Got it. Thank you @asherber
