User manual

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● To input a note below the previously input note, press Ctrl-Alt (Windows) or

Ctrl (macOS) as well as the letter for the note, for example, Ctrl-Alt-A (Windows)

or Ctrl-A (macOS) .

● Click the staff at the rhythmic position of each note you want to input.

A shadow notehead appears when inputting with the mouse to indicate where the note

will be input.

● Play the notes on a MIDI keyboard.

8. Optional: Press Space to advance the caret by the currently selected note duration without

inputting notes.

TIP

You can also move the caret in different ways and by different increments.

Press Esc or Return to stop note input.

RESULT

Notes are input with the selected duration at the caret position or where you click and are played

back as you input them by default. Their pitch follows the prevailing key signature. For example,

if you press

F in G major, an F♯ is input automatically.

If you selected rhythm dots or articulations, notes continue to be input with them until you

deactivate them. However, accidentals not in the prevailing key signature are only added to the

rst note you input after selecting them.

Dorico Elements notates and beams notes appropriately according to their duration, the current

time signature, and their position in the bar. This includes showing notes as tie chains if required.

If you advance the caret without inputting notes, Dorico Elements lls the gaps between notes

with implicit rests of the appropriate duration.

If you input notes on notation staves belonging to fretted instruments, Dorico Elements

automatically allocates these notes to the strings on which they can be played closest to the

nut. Because this calculation is done for each note separately, multiple notes can be allocated

to the same string. In such cases, the notes are shown next to each other on tablature and are

colored green. You can then select them individually and make your own string allocation.

TIP

You can specify custom beat groupings within individual time signatures.

AFTER COMPLETING THIS TASK

You can move notes to different rhythmic positions and other staves after they have been input.

You can also show brackets on noteheads individually.