[feature suggestion] adding interval instantly by typing "alt+number"

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i think you misunderstood my question

imagine a piano part with a different 4 note chord in every sixtyenth note….

every time you have to hit enter go to next chord an then invoke the popover again.

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As I mentioned earlier in the thread, one suggestion is to assign the interval popover to Q.

I use this constantly. Q, 3, Enter. The Q is already up by the numbers. It’s very fast.

You can also assign this with a right-arrow press as a multi-function command to Stream Deck. I used that back in the day.

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I don’t believe there is. It would be interesting if there were a way to do that – Ctrl+Enter or Alt+Enter or something, to accept the current input and advance the popover to the next note.

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Check out this post by @pianoleo. Here he came up with a way to add intervals to notes by pressing the number keys, and adding intervals below by pressing Shift+Number. This can be added to the kWriteMode context of 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.

If, like the OP in this topic, you’d like to add an interval by pressing Alt+Number, you can change that accordingly. I did that below and added Control+Alt+Number for adding intervals below.

 "context" : "kWriteMode",
            "shortcuts" : [

					{
						"NoteInput.TransposeOrAddNotesToSelection?Definition=2" : [ "Alt+2" ]
					},
					
					{
						"NoteInput.TransposeOrAddNotesToSelection?Definition=3" : [ "Alt+3" ]
					},
										
					{
						"NoteInput.TransposeOrAddNotesToSelection?Definition=4" : [ "Alt+4" ]
					},
															
					{
						"NoteInput.TransposeOrAddNotesToSelection?Definition=5" : [ "Alt+5" ]
					},
																				
					{
						"NoteInput.TransposeOrAddNotesToSelection?Definition=6" : [ "Alt+6" ]
					},
															
					{
						"NoteInput.TransposeOrAddNotesToSelection?Definition=7" : [ "Alt+7" ]
					},
																				
					{
						"NoteInput.TransposeOrAddNotesToSelection?Definition=8" : [ "Alt+8" ]
					},
					
					{
						"NoteInput.TransposeOrAddNotesToSelection?Definition=-2" : [ "Control+Alt+2" ]
					},
					
					{
						"NoteInput.TransposeOrAddNotesToSelection?Definition=-3" : [ "Control+Alt+3" ]
					},
										
					{
						"NoteInput.TransposeOrAddNotesToSelection?Definition=-4" : [ "Control+Alt+4" ]
					},
															
					{
						"NoteInput.TransposeOrAddNotesToSelection?Definition=-5" : [ "Control+Alt+5" ]
					},
																				
					{
						"NoteInput.TransposeOrAddNotesToSelection?Definition=-6" : [ "Control+Alt+6" ]
					},
															
					{
						"NoteInput.TransposeOrAddNotesToSelection?Definition=-7" : [ "Control+Alt+7" ]
					},
																				
					{
						"NoteInput.TransposeOrAddNotesToSelection?Definition=-8" : [ "Control+Alt+8" ]
					},

I tested this and it works. But for non-diatonic intervals you’ll still need the Shift+I popover.

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Using the above method, you actually could add shortcuts for anything that the note tools popover can do. For example, adding an augmented fourth would be NoteInput.TransposeOrAddNotesToSelection?Definition=aug4.

But you would eventually run out of key combos to assign them to!

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mmmh i don’t like theese workarounds…like hacks. I left FInale, i left Sibelius also because they are full of similar workarounds…

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I think the best workaround in this case is to use a midi keyboard :wink:

Joking aside, I think a good way of overcoming this if you are working with qwerty input is to add the extra notes in another voice, and then move that voice to the first. Then you do not have add to each note manually.

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