This is obviously a HUGE deal and very much in line with v6 workflow supercharge features:
If you hold Shift and double-click a note in the score,
Dorico will now select all following notes of the same pitch in that voice.
Awesome.
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A quick follow up: Is this feature exposed as a key command, as in: Select note and then hitting a key performs the function?
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And you use this for what?
(I’ve concluded it has no utility. But am happy to be convinced otherwise)
This works for me in new projects but not in old ones. Where in Dorico preferences can I find this setting so that I can activate it in pre-6.0.10 projects?
Well, it should make for very easy modal changes, for exercises and the like. Or you can select every occurrence of a slash voice. Probably I won’t use it often, but when I do, I expect it to save several keystrokes!
I’ve just opened a file created in Dorico 2.2 and the new function (Shift+ double-click) works fine for me.
I don’t know if it’s relevant or not (I suspect not) but I have Preferences / File / Opening Project / Warn when opening projects last saved in an earlier version switched on.
That utility is already provided in the note tools popover eg shift-I map Gm to G phr
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I know.
But Shift + doubleclick followed by a single keypress on my Stream Deck is faster.
I tested several other older files, and yes, the function works fine in those as well as a new project. It’s just my current project that note selection by double-clicking the note doesn’t work. I wonder if I should send it to Daniel?
You can send it to me if you like, but please be as specific as possible about where you are trying to Shift+double-click the note.
OK… I shift-double click the (unselected) note head. The technique works for new projects and for the other older projects I’ve tested - just not for this current project.
The project is so large that the time it takes to respond to a single click is greater than the threshold for detecting a double-click, so Dorico never receives the double-click.
Obviously it would be better if Dorico could respond to a change of selection more quickly (especially since in this case, the selection isn’t actually changing, though it takes some computation to even work that out), but that’s not something that is easy for us to improve.
Splitting your very long flows up into smaller ones, and creating a working layout containing only one or two of these shorter flows would help.
Interesting. I have an older project (when I open it in Dorico 6, I’m informed that the old project was created in Dorico 3) that’s 104MB in size (17 flows), and shift-double-clicking a note in this older project is instantaneous.
As a test, I cut down the offending project (from 15.4MB to 1MB) to a single flow. That works fine, so it’s something to do with the size of the project, although absolute size is not the only problem.