Repeat paste?

Dorico
1

Cloud there be a “repeat paste” option in the paste special menu ?
One could then enter a number of repeats for the selected copy material.

best,
Yan

ps
I can’t wait for the lua api to be released so that we can write our own generative processes…

2

Do you mean that you want to paste a selection of, say, 2 bars multiple times – so that it repeats and fills say 40 bars?

If so, Dorico already does that

3

thanks Lillie,

No, not exactly. I don’t want to define the length of the selection, but rather repeat a pattern a certain number of times.

say I have a selection like the one in the picture, I select the next rest (bar 31) and do “repeat paste” that selection n times.

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4

If I understand you correctly: Make the selection, hit R as many times as you like (don’t ‘select’ bar 31 first)

5

Not quite (“R” isn’t mentioned at all on the page I linked to)

  1. select the note(s) that you want to repeat
  2. copy
  3. select all the bars that you want to fill with the copied phrase
  4. paste

Result: the copied phrase is repeated as many times as needed to fill the selected region. You can’t say “repeat this 17 times” specifically, but if you know in advance which bar you want the repeats to go up to, then the benefit of this way is that you don’t need to count.

6

I know, I just thought another approach might help the OP

7

Yes apologies, it was only after posting my reply that I realised the two green icons were in fact different users :smiley:

8

I see, changed my avatar :slight_smile:

9

One could then enter a number of repeats for the selected copy material…
I don’t want to press some new R !

10

You could use a script. Here 5 times.

Jesper

local app=DoApp.DoApp()
for i = 1,5,1 do
app:doCommand([[NoteInput.RepeatLast]])
end