Hi all, Can anyone share a successful approach to entering lots of paper music into Dorico? I am interested in everything, from where you place the piano keyboard, monitor, mouse, computer keyboard, special macros, the use of the Stream Deck, etc. I would be interested in pictures of your studio…

Here’s thread with some pictures: [image] Dual monitor setup? Dorico Thanks all for the advice. If I duplicated the 27" monitor I have now, I would need to leave one permanently in portrait to make it fit, which might look sort of odd. My wife just has a 24" so I think I …

Hi @wws here just a couple of general note entry tips that can speed the workflow (in case someone is not jet aware of them): use double click on the note value numbers to enter dotted notes if you want to transform two equal notes in a dotted rhythm you can just select the first and press the…

Interesting stuff, but here’s maybe how I should have phrased it: If you had a stack of 1,000 pages of music, and were getting paid $20 / page to enter them in Dorico, how would you set up your work area and proceed? Like, where would your keyboard be, your mouse, your midi controller, what monito…

[image] Christian_R: sometimes I input all notes (in a passage) using only one value (all quarter for example) and then use Insert mode to adjust the rhythms afterwards… Thanks for sharing your tricks but for this one,did have you made a setting so that the cursor advances to the next note on…

[image] wws: If you had a stack of 1,000 pages of music, and were getting paid $20 / page to enter them in Dorico, how would you set up your work area and proceed? Like, where would your keyboard be, your mouse, your midi controller, what monitor set up, etc.? Like this: [setup] If the 10…

[image] FredGUnn: Like this: For just a moment, I thought you had a :joystick: there…

If the source were a PDF, I’d probably try scanning a few pages just to see if that looked like it would help rather than hinder.

Well that’s an amazing and beautiful studio set up… … What exactly would you do to get a measure or line of notes in? I would you look at the music and play the notes on the midi controller in step mode in my RH (mostly), riding the stream deck with my LH, but I would be interested in other peopl…

Thanks! I use the StreamDeck for macros mostly. A few things are single commands, but many on the SD are a sequence. I input with one hand on the MIDI keyboard, one hand on the numpad, step time input, almost always pitch-before-duration. If it’s a sequence or a pattern using all eighths or somethin…

[image] wws: Can anyone share a successful approach to entering lots of paper music into Dorico? Without doubt I would use an OMR program to read paper music into xml format and import that into Dorico. None of these programs are perfect, but (IMO) they all beat manual note-entry in Dorico by…

Entering lots of notes -- studio setup, ergonomics?

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lafin May 24, 2024, 7:48pm 2

Here’s thread with some pictures: