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Inputting notes using pitch before duration
You can input notes into your project by specifying their pitch before their duration, meaning you
can test pitches before inputting them without leaving note input. You can input notes with a
computer keyboard, with the mouse, or by playing notes with a MIDI keyboard.
By default in Dorico Elements, you must specify the duration before the pitch of notes.
NOTE
● These steps describe selecting the pitch before the duration when inputting notes. However,
you can also specify the duration before the pitch instead, which is the default note input
behavior in
Dorico Elements.
●
These steps describe selecting rhythm dots, articulations, and accidentals not in the
prevailing key signature before inputting notes. However, you can also select them after
inputting notes. If you change this setting, you must perform steps 7 and 8 before steps 4 to
6.
●
When inputting notes on tablature using pitch before duration, you must select note
durations by clicking them in the Notes panel.
●
You do not have to input rests between notes, as Dorico Elements automatically shows
implicit rests of the appropriate duration between the notes you input. Similarly, you do not
have to input ties, as
Dorico Elements shows notes as tie chains if necessary.
● You can also input notations alongside notes without deactivating note input.
PREREQUISITE
● You have chosen the appropriate input pitch setting.
● You have chosen the appropriate note-based notation input setting.
● You have connected any MIDI devices you want to use for note input.
● If you want to input notes into multiple instruments held by a single player or instruments
not visible in the score in page view, you are in Galley View.
● If your music requires a key signature, you have input that key signature.
PROCEDURE
1. Start note input in any of the following ways:
● Select a note or rest on the staff where you want to input notes and press Shift-N .
NOTE
If you select a notation, such as a dynamic, pressing Return opens the corresponding
popover instead of starting note input.
● Double-click the staff where you want to input notes.
2.
Activate Pitch Before Duration in any of the following ways:
● Press K .
● In the Notes toolbox, click Pitch Before Duration .
3.
Optional: If you want to input notes onto multiple staves at once, extend the caret to those
staves.
4.
Optional: If you want to input a pitch whose accidental is not in the prevailing key signature,
select the appropriate accidental.
5.
Optional: Select any required articulations.
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Dorico Elements 3.5.12