Dear All,
I am one of the lost souls who has come from Finale. In Finale it was possible to use a midi keyboard and input notes NOT in real time. You play the note on the midi keyboard and press a number on the computer keyboard and the note appears with the rhythm you have specified.
I have just bought dprico 5.5 .51
I thought this was possible in Dorico, but I can’t find it anywhere.
Can anybody help me with this.
Yours in hope,
Geoffrey
Welcome to the forum, Geoffrey.
It is possible to select Pitch before Duration in Preferences > Note Input but I highly recommend to take the time and get used to “native” Duration before Pitch.
I’m also just transitioning from Finale, so I’m not trying to convince you as a long term Dorico user.
You can just use K to switch between the two modes. If you’re entering a string of notes of the same duration, it’s faster just to play the notes on the keyboard, rather than re-press the same duration every time.
I’d recommend watching some of the many videos about Note Entry in Dorico – not least John Barron’s session yesterday.
i’m going to go through this process, but i really need to be doing scoring. i wish i could just turn on Dorico, and there were like a palette of notes with values and i just drag the notes into my score. i do not want to spend even a few hours learning some “note input process,” because i wish Dorico would make note input possible in so many different ways that it’s impossible to not work with intuitively.
but that is not the case at this time – i have to “learn how note input works” in Dorico – which to me feels insane, but i do have to do it. i wish i didn’t have to. i already created one score in Dorico but the note input process was ridiculous. what i came up with is that i select the value and then press a letter on my keyboard. an actual letter like a or c.
the paper score – how it looks - is incredible - but the note input process that i have had to follow so far – is grueling.
is it really true that you can’t just select your note value and tap it into the score? you can’t even drag it into the score?
best,
Dainis
Please don’t post the same question on different threads.
I’d like you to lay back, Janus. I have written tens of thousands of pages of technical documentation and am a professional end-user advocate. I’ve taught Computer Literacy and a broad range of technical topics – and have managed user communities and forums etc.
Lay off, please, I am doing my best – I consider the health of the forum and community before I post – and I have barely made any posts here. Don’t “cyberstalk” me, and I do not wish to have you “police” my behavior here at the Dorico forums. Unless Steinberg gets in touch with me, I will consider your comment unofficial.
Please: lay off.
You can input notes using mouse only, selecting the note value and click where you want to show it.
Be sure to have the proper preferences set.
Dainis, we do ask that you try to keep one question to a single thread, and not post the same question in multiple threads. The forum is very lively and you are almost guaranteed to get an answer to any question that you post, so posting in multiple threads about the same topic is unnecessary. Furthermore it can make the discussion more difficult to follow, as it may become splintered between multiple threads.
So please do keep discussion on a single topic to a single thread. Many thanks!
