I seem to have a tendancy to sometimes double tap the note length on my streamdeck.
This didn’t use to be a problem, but now I regularly get an unintended dotted note since the feature was added in Dorico 5. Can this feature be disabled?
I don’t think so, but the feature is so powerful you might try just retraining to single tap. I find (found) entering durations to be the most clumsy and slow process of note entry, not only for the base duration, but there’s two modifiers - dots and tuplets which were much clumsier, because you have to first get the base direction then set up the modification - a two step process just for a single duration.
Now the double tap actually removes one of the modifiers by bundling it with the base duration. I put the base durations on the numpad, so now that all is much faster, just leaving the tuplets. I was thinking that maybe a triple tap for tuplet entry (like a 3:2 in 4/4 for your typical triplet) would be an extension, but maybe that’s going too far. Anyhow I mapped the numpad 9 key to the tuplet popover (9 - divisible by three as a mnemonic).
Anyhow strongly recommend making use of it and not trying to make it go away, it’ll help you work faster and easier.
It is certainly disrespectful to the other Engraving improvements in D5, but for me the double tap is clearly the most welcome of the new features. It’s so simple and intuitive (pardon the pun) that it makes you wonder why no one came up with this idea yet.
I have a frequent habit of tapping the duration if I can’t remember (or want to be sure) what duration I have selected; and I was worried that I would activate the double tap accidentally: but I don’t think I’ve inadvertently activated it at all.
I have exactly the same habit, and in fact I have triggered the dot a few times inadvertently. But I think it’s still a net gain for me. I’m just trying to acclimate to it.
That’s fair, OTOH there’s already about a million settings, do we really need a setting for every possible contingency? The point being is it a necessary capability to turn this off, or just a convenience? I’d vote the latter and not worth making a setting for.
I might agree with you, except we’re talking about a program which functioned one way, people got used to working that way, and then they changed it. In any situation where people have developed a workflow, I think it’s reasonable to have an option to maintain people’s workflows that the program itself had encouraged developing previously.
True but that’s not a carte blanche grandfather clause. For example with 5 they just did this with the humanization, a preference and a default of it off, expressly to prevent chaos with existing CC data. This makes a lot of sense given the investment in existing projects.
In this case we’re just talking about a tiny change in the user interface, hardly worth bothering about. And what about all the times they tweaked the interface in some way in the past, did all those get settings? Doubt it.
Anyhow we’re circling the drain here, I’ve dealt with this a million times in my career and if were me I’d not have a pref, and obviously they didn’t think it important enough or it would already be there, but opinions can differ. ‘nuff said.
Hello, I think that at least making it an option to be enabled/disabled in the Preferences menu would be awesome.
I have never felt the need for a feature like this because I use a mouse with several additional buttons and I have the dot assigned to one of them. But surely for other people it has been a time saver.
I can see Pieter’s point because I myself now activate the dot by mistake more times than I would like and I would really like to be able to at least deactivate it, if we had the choice to do so.
Fact is Dorico has been designed in a way so that the best workflow is without using the mouse, so even a special button on a device you’re not supposed to use (I’m a day-1 Dorico user, I know things have changed, but still…) won’t earn you much time
Your request is however totally valid, I’m not implying anything against it. Only suggesting you might want to change your workflow eventually, to get things flowing!
Thank you for your input, Marc. Yeah, I hope they do add least add the option to disable it if one doesn’t want it. In the meantime I’ve tried to force myself not to do the bad habit of presing the duration button twice, haha.
No, but perhaps the issue is that Dorico itself is taking sufficiently long to process the tap that the second one is being missed? Is the project you’re working on especially large?
I did suspect this might be the issue.
yes, it’s a 30-minute long symphony, large orchestra, and condensed score, so probably a long time reacting to commands.