keyboard shortcut for rests
I think it would speed up keyboard entry significantly if there was a keyboard shortcut to change from note to rest entry. I find rests slow me down as I have to switch to the mouse and click the button to change to entering a rest. If this already exists, please let me know what the shortcut is, because I want to add it to my repertoire.
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While in note entry mode, press 0 on the numeric keypad to enter a rest with the selected duration: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/note-input#enter-notes-rests
In reply to While in note entry mode,… by jeetee
Thank you jeetee! (Now wouldn't it be nice if that showed up when hovering over the rest button, like almost every other button in that row...)
In reply to Thank you jeetee! (Now… by malika.frost
good point. Make a feature request at https://musescore.org/en/node/add/project_issue?pid=1236
In reply to Thank you jeetee! (Now… by malika.frost
It's different, though. 0 is the shortcut to actually enter a rest. It's not the shortcut to merely toggle the Icon. There is no shortcut for that because that would be less efficient than actually entering the rest, so no one would ever use the shortcut to toggle the icon when they could actually enter the rest in a single action.
BTW, you shouldn't be needing tbeouse at all during note or rest entry. Everything is done more efficiently via shortcuts.
In reply to It's different, though. 0… by Marc Sabatella
Is there a shortcut for changing the rest back into a non rest, in other words a note. I'm having trouble changing it back after I changed the note into a rest.
In reply to Is there a shortcut for… by colinmahoney21
I'd just go back over the rest with the cursor, press N so that it takes on the existing rest value, and press the letter I want it to be. It's just a note entry again at that point.
Or, you know ... undo. Ctrl+Z
In reply to Is there a shortcut for… by colinmahoney21
MuseScore is always in “replace” mode. If you want a note, just enter the note directly. You don’t different special commands to do this based on what is currently there or what was there previously. In note input odor, just type the letter name or click the staff, no special command required. In normal mode, just type the letter name.
In reply to MuseScore is always in … by Marc Sabatella
"MuseScore is always in “replace” mode." ... unless it is in insert mode.
In reply to "MuseScore is always in … by SteveBlower
I'm always right. Unless... ;-)
In reply to "MuseScore is always in … by SteveBlower
Indeed, but I didn't want to confuse the issue by referring to a mode that likely isn't relevant here, and would never need to be used at all by most people. Still, for the sake of completeness, absolutely, it's possible to use the special-purpose "insert" mode.
In reply to Is there a shortcut for… by colinmahoney21
backspace, isn't it?
In reply to It's different, though. 0… by Marc Sabatella
Nobody wanting to toggle the mute icon on and off (or use mouse input at all, for that matter) is an incredibly arrogant and incorrect assumption. This shortcut used to toggle the icon in older versions, and I had a perfectly fine workflow using it. The new 0 behavior of overwriting the currently-selected note/rest with a rest of the selected length is extremely awkward because the user has to worry about which note/rest is selected before they can use it.
The closer-matching behavior is the right-click behavior to directly enter a rest of the selected length without entering rest mode, which you've recommended in a newer thread: https://musescore.org/en/node/340686 (I'm commenting here because this thread was returned higher up in web search results.)
In reply to Nobody wanting to toggle the… by jacobgkau
Hmm, I think you might be confused, this thread isn't about muting at all. If you explain more about what you are trying to do, we can understand and assist better.
But for the record, the behavior of 0 has never changed - it always enters a rest. But you shouldn't need to "select" anything first - you simply enter the rest along with the notes, left to right, same as you read. None of this has changed since day one (well, many years ago the shortcut for rest was Space but it was changed to 0 back at MuseScore 1).