Selecting all specific dynamic in a score and changing them all to another one

Dorico
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Hi! I need to select all mf dynamics in a score (and only mf), across all parts.
Then I need to change them to p. Is there a way to do this automatically using filters?

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I don’t think there is a way to do that. You can select all then apply a “select” filter for only immediate dynamics. That would highlight all dynamics except hairpins and cres/dim making them easier to find.

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Sorry, I don’t think there’s a way to do that universally.

You could do it instrument by instrument using a marquee selection of the dynamics property, but that would be tedious…

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what is this Marquee selection of which you speak, sir, please?

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You can click and drag across the dynamics in the lower zone to select specific dynamics…

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But it’s a crude workflow.

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Thank you. My brain didn’t equate key editor with marquee but it certainly is an option.

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Thanks for answer. Maybe this selection method will works somehow in my case.The another question is, how I can change all of this selection to another dynamic in on step?

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right-click>dynamics>increase (decrease) dynamic intensity

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And you can create shortcuts for this function:

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Thanks for all the answers!

Maybe I could suggest this kind of filtering for future updates. The idea would be to find all instances of a specific dynamic marking in a score and select only those.

Also, the Increase/Decrease Dynamic function is great. However, I see a limitation when I need to replace a big selection of dynamics to a more complex one, such as poco f. For example, I can only go from f to mf by decreasing the dynamic level, but I can’t directly replace it with a custom dynamic marking.

It would be great to have this functionality.

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If you are afraid of dying the scrolling death you could possibly export your score to MusicXML and do a find and replace in a text editor and import it again in a new project.

For example: find <mf/> and replace with <p/>

Here is a list of the tag names of the dynamics in MusicXML (don’t forget the closing slash as in my example on these): https://www.w3.org/2021/06/musicxml40/musicxml-reference/elements/dynamics/

Additional dynamic directives can be realized with the tag <other-dynamics>. So applied to the example above it would be:

find <mf/> and replace with <other-dynamics>poco</other-dynamics><p/>