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TIP

Dorico Elements automatically inputs notes above the highest note at the caret position

when Chords is activated.

You can input notes below the lowest note at the caret position instead by pressing Ctrl-

Alt (Windows) or Ctrl (macOS) as well as the letter for the note name, for example,

Ctrl-Alt-A (Windows) or Ctrl-A (macOS) .

● Click the staff at the rhythmic positions where you want to input notes.

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

will be input.

● Play the notes on a MIDI keyboard.

Optional: Advance the caret to input chords at other rhythmic positions.

During chord input, notes are input at the same rhythmic position and above the previous

note until you advance the caret manually.

Press Q or click Chords again to stop chord input.

RESULT

Multiple notes are input at the caret position.

● If entering pitches by clicking with the mouse, you can put the same pitch into the chord

twice by clicking again on the same line.

● If entering pitches with the keyboard, repeated notes are automatically input an octave

above. You can change the register of notes by forcing the register selection during note

input, or by transposing them after they have been input.

NOTE

● You can stop chord input and immediately continue inputting notes as before, with a single

note at each rhythmic position and the caret advancing automatically to the next rhythmic

position.

● When chords contain two pitches in the same register but with different accidentals, that is

known as an altered unison. Altered unisons are shown as split stems by default in Dorico

Elements.

● When you input chords on tablature using pitch before duration with a MIDI keyboard, all

notes in the chord are 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.