Frustration with Dorico Note Entry

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I am having trouble getting used the Dorico Note Entry after watching two videos on it and playing with it for an hour.

Attached is a bar in Dorico. I want to replace the eighth note rest with an eighth note. How do I do this, leaving nothing to the imagination. Please give every point, every click (right or left) and every action it takes to replace this darn eighth rest with an eighth note.
Dorico Eight rest to eight note

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Have you learned how to use the caret and note input mode? With it activated it’s pretty easy, just move the caret in position and add an 8th note. Not sure what videos you have watched but this should help:

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Select the rest, double click to initiate note input, press 5 for quaver, left click on it. It’s not rocket science… struggling after watching two videos on this is beyond comprehension.
What method were you trying?

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  1. Select rest*
  2. “Enter” (or shift + N) to enter note entry (caret should appear)
  3. “5” to set eighth duration (not necessary if already set)
  4. Type letter of the pitch, or key on a MIDI keyboard, or left click on the staff at the pitch position.
  • Steps 1 and 2 can be combined by double clicking on the rest.
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Sometimes, I click on the previous note, press “R” to repeat it, then move it with alt-up arrow (or down arrow).

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Even though I’ve been using Dorico for 8 years, the influx of questions is teaching me new ways of doing things.

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This is the way…

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Grogu approves of this method! :smiling_face:

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Just to add a complication. It depends whether you enter your notes using duration before pitch or pitch before duration !!

I do duration first. So my steps are:

  1. double click the rest
  2. press the note I want.

Job done.

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The R (repeat) command is great for composing. Sometimes I’ll select the entire list of instruments and repeat all of them at a beat. Then I can move or change the time durations.

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yep i do that too LOL, easiest to wrap my mind around rather than fiddling with all the buttons on the left.

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bonus tip for anyone reading - if you deal with complex tuplets or syncopated rhythms with ties and so on, and wish to repeat the rhythm but with different pitches – use R to duplicate and then go into note input mode, hit ‘L’ for locked duration, and play or type in all your new pitches. Complex rhythms, ties, slurs, articulations, everything will be preserved exactly the same way. It’s a super fast way of transposing complex rhythms without having to redo it all every time.

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You might be kind. After all, you must be much smarter than the person you’re speaking to … or at least you believe yourself to be. Just be nice, you know?

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Why is it that your first interaction is digging up an old thread, looking something to cause drama, bringing intelligence for no reason, indirectly calling the OP stupid and saying that you apparently knowing how to read my mind?
The lack of self-awareness…

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I suggest we just forget about this exchange, due to a language barrier. Sérgio’s first post does seem somewhat rude in English, and Keith’s sarcasm in calling it out was lost in translation.

With this international community we often need to broaden our expectations for people comprehending concepts and instructions, and expect idioms to be easily misinterpreted. When a post gives you a strong feeling, the natural reaction is to respond expressing your feeling, and I find this is often not helpful to anyone.

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