I’m a Mac user on Dorico 6 doing note entry with pitch before duration, via computer keyboard not MIDI keyboard. It seems to me that there are only two note auditioning options. One is that Dorico plays every single shadow note, even as I’m moving the arrow keys up or down to get to the pitch I actually want, or it plays no notes at all unless I happen to add an accidental.
I’ve tried all the instructions online and nothing seems to work. I need what Finale/Speedy Entry used to do, which is note auditioning limited to the note I actually choose via duration, without confusing my ears with scales while I get to the note I’m going to choose. Can Dorico delay actually auditioning the note until after I’ve entered the duration?
I know that for many users, the whole point of Pitch before duration is that you can play (and hear) notes before you decide to enter them with a duration. If you don’t need that, then I’d argue that there’s actually little advantage in pitch first in Dorico.
Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried that and it does not solve the problem. All that happens is I hear no auditioned notes at all, whether I choose them or not.
I don’t conceive of music as rhythm first, I conceive of it as pitch first. Also, three decades of having Finale work that way by default has shaped my work procedures to the point that I only chose Dorico because it could be customized that way. But this appears to be at the expense of a functional note auditioning system. I’m baffled as to why Finale could make this work but Dorico cannot.
If one thinks one knows the note one wants, one could presumably press the note name on the keyboard to test it out rather than using the arrow keys. Yes, the procedure is somewhat different (never used that particular aspect of Speedy when I used Finale- but that’s neither here nor there.
“Too old to learn new tricks” is for dogs, not people. Folks can adapt if they want to, and Dorico is ultimately not that hard to use (compared to Finale when I started to learn it 30-some years ago).
