Issues editing individual notes in the score editor

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I’m testing this again in 15.0.10 on Mac and I don’t see any improvement so I’ll give a rundown of issues editing notes that I face daily in the score editor.

I find editing notes quite tedious. I just end up jumping into the key editor and then I’m constantly jumping between editing the score and midi.

Click and Drag Takes 2 Clicks

You can’t click and drag a note in 1 mouse click. You have to click first and then drag.

Reproduce it by clicking one note, then click another and drag, it moves the first one, not the one you clicked.

I’m editing long runs of choral passages and it just makes it too slow vs the key editor.

Using Arrow Keys To Select Notes Jumps To Lyrics

If you are trying to get around the 2 click problem, you use the arrow keys to move across and then nudge notes up/down. However if you have lyrics it jumps to the lyric rather than the next note. I have lyrics on everything all the time and that really slows things down. I end up using the key editor just so an arrow press results in hearing a note.

Nudge Up/Down - No Acoustic Feedback

If you use the keyboard to nudge up and down then you don’t have acoustic feedback like you do in click and drag. This is really essential.

Nudge Up/Down - Breaks after a while

There is also an issue whereby sometimes nudge inside the score editor breaks. It moves the midi but does not move the notes in the score. I’ve been trying to find a way to reproduce this bug - it is very intermittent but happens me a couple of times a day. Sometimes closing windows fixes it, sometimes I need to restart Cubase.

The worst part is that because there is no acoustic feedback for nudging - sometimes my midi is actually changing but it looks to me like the score is the same. This has led to some errors creeping into my scores.

No Keyboard Octave Up/Down

I’m constantly needing to move up/down an octave. It would be great if the keyboard shortcut Shift+Arrow for up/down octave worked in the score editor.

I’d apprecate any work in this area or workarounds to the above.

Thanks

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FWIW, the Dorico shortcut for octave up are Ctrl+Alt+Up/⌥⌘Up. (I think the general philosophy has been to try to keep shortcuts between Dorico and the Cubase score editor as consistent as possible, and skipping them where there are clashes.)

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Thanks for providing this list Phil. Sadly, the actual shortcut assignments are something we can’t keep in sync between Dorico and Cubase. One is a technical reason, in that Cubase doesn’t have the technical structure to allow different shortcuts in different working environments (as in Dorico’s modes). We’ll try to make more functionality available as key commands in Cubase though.

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Ok thanks - but in case I am missing something I just tested in Dorico and Cubase and the Dorico shortcut for up/down octave does not work in Cubase either (and I’ve made sure nothing else is mapped to that keyboard shortcut).

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That would be helpful. I don’t care if the shortcut is global or I need to use a different one when in the score editor - as long as there is some quick way to shift an octave. Thanks.

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Actually, “Nudge”, “Up/Down (Larger Step)” is the key command that does an octave shift already. Bit hard to find with a Dorico perspective, but this works across key editor or score editor.

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Oh fantastic, I had no idea that was there. This will save me so much time, thank you!

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