IOW, the correct chord symbol shows when I scroll, but it’s not visible in the actual score…
If you go to setup mode and click right on the instrument or score you can set the visibilty of the chord symbols. Maybe it is somehow set to not show.
Made it work. Whew. This particular way of doing things is taking more time to get used to than many others! I’m loving so much about Dorico thus far - and this is the first thing that has come up that I really need to wrap my head around, especially after cutting-and-pasting chord symbols so easily in musescore.
N.B. - not complaining! Grateful, loving the app. Just registering that this takes more steps and more work than I, and it seems a lot of people, expect.
I’ve just had the same crash following you instructions (Command Shift A) - did you investigate this previously?
I see this is already an old tpic, but I am new and on Dorico 5 and still not able to copy a range of chords.
My problem is that I don’t know how to select a range of chords to copy. I can only select them one by one (holding Ctrl while clicking the next chord symbol). If I select a range of bars everything is selected except the chord symbols. If I select a chord and then shift click the last chord it only deslects the first.
I can select a chord and use Shift-Ctrl-A to select ALL chords, but I don’t see any way to select a reange of several bars and copy those chord symbols.
Tijn,
you could use the System Bar to select everything in those bars (make sure to tick the box to the right) and then Filter by Chord Symbols. I just tried it and, yes one can then copy and paste the Chord Symbols.
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Thanks, I never used the System bar (and even turned it off to prevent accidental deletion of bars). Now I see I can indeed select bars in the system track and then filter on chords.
I found another way to select multiple chords without filtering: Use the marquee select and drag around the chords. You can even select more by holding ctrl and drag another range (if they are on multiple pages).
So there are now 2 ways of selecting multiple chords. For just a few chord the dragging is faster, for longer passages the system track is more useful.
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I have a short passage. I have copied it around the circle of 5ths as an exercise to learn some Dorico features. I enter simple chords [I vi ii V] in the B♭ section. Copy those chords to the E♭ section. It copies the chords in B♭—how can I get Dorico to recognize that the chords should now be in E♭? I hate to think I have to enter the chords again for every new key!
It should be as simple as selecting the chords (which you can do via the System Track then filtering chords, or via the marquee tool) and then opening the Transpose dialog etc:
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Simple would be selecting chords, clicking & pasting where I want them and them being put in the correct key. Selecting, pasting, clicking system track, filter, transpose is about three steps longer than simple. Thanks
How is Dorico meant to know that you want the pasted chords automatically transposed to a new key?
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Hi There,
I find an easy way on mac: klick the first chord (orange), then “alt” and “cmd”. No you can klick every chord step by step, copy via cmd + c, paste on your selection via cmd+ v.