Changing Note Letter Key Commands

Dorico
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This might be kind of dumb, but I accidentally switched my “D” key to dot note values. Now I can’t manually add D notes from my keyboard (without typing like an E and moving it down or something). For some reason in the Key Commands Preferences, I don’t see any place to change commands for note letters. Is there a way?

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You could remove the “D”. Try Preferences>Key Commands>Note Input>Dotted Notes

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Thanks! I did do that, but the problem is that it already removed the D from the other command, and I can’t find it to put it back. I did this a while ago and was just living with it but I’m so over it now.

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Yeah for some reason it’s not possibile to restore note input key commands from the preferences if you changed them (at least I don’t know how). You have to edit the keycommands_en.json file (‘en’ is your keyboard language) which is located in c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\Dorico 6 on Windows and /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Steinberg/Dorico 6 on Mac. Make sure to create a backup of the file first and that Dorico is not running.

Open the file and look for:

              {
                  "NoteInput.Pitch?Pitch=D" : [ "DELETE:D" ]
               },

Select the whole thing (including the {}; the comma might not be there but if it’s there, select that too) and delete it. That should restore things.

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Thanks for your reply! That’s very in depth. I don’t know why, I can’t find the program files in my mac. There’s no library folder in my username folder, so I’m not really sure where else to look.

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It’s hidden by default. From the Finder, hold down the alt/opt key while using the Go menu, and you should see the library in the menu.

Jesper

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It worked!!! Thank you all so much! :smiley: