Dorico introduced a new feature about six months back which selects all notes of the same pitch throughout the piece.
I’ve inadvertently hit this thing a couple of times with devastating results to music not currently in view (E.g. here all the g’s now have an incorrect duration! )
(This is a simple example and easy to fix, other examples have sent me to back ups.)
I don’t know what the feature is called so I can’t find where to disable . What is it called and how do I disable it?
Incidentally the other dangerous feature which has terrific potential to wreck music not currently in view is non-global insert (i.e. voice insert, desk insert ect). I’d simply loveto have my insert setting only toggling between:
This is what I do. I keep a very close eye on that icon because I know that anything other than Global Insert (or no Insert) is going to do me in.
But really I shouldn’t have to keep looking at that icon. I’d like the dangerous modes suppressed .
When we are entering new stuff the cursor changes to show insert is enabled. Unfortunately most of the time I’m editing draft material and there 's less visual indication.
It’s also a good idea to make sure you don’t have a mouse button assigned to a double click action. I had this for a while, but I can’t tell you how many times I activated this by accident before I changed the setting.
Unfortunately it’s so easy to do that accidentally and not realise the serious implications of what you’ve just done. It’s exactly the same if you press ‘Alt I’ accidentally thinking you’ve pressed ‘Shift I’. In both cases the effect is much more dramatic than you might expect and a lot of it is off screen!
part of the ‘problem’ is that Dorico is so good it’s like playing the ultimate musical instrument. I often work without looking at what I’m doing (‘touch typing’) because I know what it should be doing (and usually does)
I keep ‘infinite’ backups; without those I would have lost work by now. . .
I have to wonder why there is such a thing as selecting every instance of a note throughout a piece. I have no problem with it, but I can’t imagine why I would ever need this.
Could it be for enharmonic or educational preparation or for small cue size required or parentheses (e.g. flute low B), colored notes (the new one you are learning), changing noteheads to X …
I think that’s the rationale. I’m sure both the features I’ve been complaining about have excellent use cases, the problem is only that you might fall into them too easily.
. What is it called and how do I disable it?
to have my insert setting only toggling between:
on that icon because I know that anything other than Global Insert (or no Insert) is going to do me in.
