Want to reassign shorcuts assigned to gradual dynamics

Dorico
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I want to change the behavior of the hotkeys alt-shift-comma and alt-shift period (assigned to the hairpin combos in the attached image). As far as I can tell, these commands don’t show up in the hotkey customization menu, and there is no warning message when I attempt to assign my preferred command to them, as there normally would when there is a hotkey conflict. If I do assign my preferred command, using the hotkey simply does nothing. It negates the behavior of both commands. Is there any way around this?
cresc decresc

I know this is an unofficial hotkey list, but the shortcuts in question don’t show up here either.

2

You’re right that commands to create hairpins aren’t in the list of key commands that can be assigned.

You can’t change the popover commands for most things, either.

3

These specific commands don’t appear in the Key Commands editor in Preferences because they are handled by a single command with multiple parameters, and for various boring technical reasons we can only handle assigning shortcuts for commands with single parameters in that editor (and even then only a limited subset). However, you could add these commands to your own user-level shortcuts JSON file:

					{
						"NoteInput.HairpinStart?Type=kGradualDynamicDown&GradualDynamicType=kCrescOrDim": [ ">" ]
					},
					{
						"NoteInput.HairpinStart?Type=kGradualDynamicUp&GradualDynamicType=kCrescOrDim": [ "<" ]
					},
					{
						"NoteInput.HairpinStart?Type=kGradualDynamicDown&GradualDynamicType=kMessaDiVoce": [ "Alt+Shift+." ]
					},
					{
						"NoteInput.HairpinStart?Type=kGradualDynamicUp&GradualDynamicType=kMessaDiVoce": [ "Alt+Shift+," ]
					},
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4

Thanks Daniel! You’re a lifesaver!

I just want to point out in case anyone else has this issue: my language is set to English, so I had to edit the keycommands_en.json file. Changing the generic keycommands.json didn’t work.

5

You should only edit the keycommands_en.json file in your user-level Dorico application data folder, for example on macOS at /Users/your-username/Library/Application Support/Steinberg/Dorico 4. Don’t edit the files inside the Dorico application package (macOS) or Program Files folder (Windows).