Dotted long - short pattern defaults

[bmartin.music]

Is there a place where I can set this as a default? I would like for a note that is seven 8th notes long on beat one of a 4/4 bar to default to appearing as a dotted half tied to an eighth.

Essentially, I would love to have the program default to letting me notate this rhythm without needing to slog my way through the “force duration” tool.

Thank you!

[judddanby]

Welcome to the forum, @bmartin.music!

This is definitely a perennially hot topic here. On the off chance that you’re a Stream Deck user, shortcuts can be made to speed up process (scrolling through the entire thread will you a sense of the standing discussion amount user, if that’s of any interest):

Note grouping conundrum

That’s sort of the point of Force Duration I guess. Also, for anyone using pitch-first input, it’s easy to set up a StreamDeck to support any sort of duration configuration you want. I have a client that wants dotted half tied to eighth a lot, so I have a SD button set up to automate it. Hit the pitch, hit the SD button, continue on with input. [rhythm] For anyone that cares to argue, here’s a link to the MET post from last month where this was debated ad nauseum. Or just wait a couple of mon…

[bmartin.music]

Thank you for the welcome.

This doesn’t feel like so obscure a rhythm that a paying user should be reliant upon third-party hardware to have to input it quickly.

Thanks for the thread as well - hopefully Steinberg is getting ready to introduce this feature as it seems like a pretty crazy omission for 7-year-old software.

[Mark_Johnson]

And there are more than a couple other discussions of this on the forum if you search!

I was not able to find a combination of note grouping settings to display that rhythm by default. But the force duration method is a matter of one extra keystroke (or click) during entry; hardly a slog.