Shortcut for set duration

• Mar 30, 2025 - 10:31

Hi musescore team.

I really appreciate the new note input tool! This helps me a lot.

In order to be faster - as I do not use MuseScore on a regular basis - I would like to reduce the mental mapping I have to do from quarter, eighth notes etc to the number keys.

I reassigned shortcuts. See screen shot.

It happens so, that mapping eighth note duration to the key of 8 does not work.
All others work fine.

If I map eighth to let's say 9 - also works fine.

There was another assignment for 8 which I cleared.

I can't get this to work.
Any help is appreciated.

Mac OS 12.7.6

PS: I also can not figure how to set the number keyboard key or any other modifier such as shift in the shortcuts dialog.

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• Mar 30, 2025 - 10:45

For adding keys from the number pad (or for adding any other 2nd shortcut) you'd need to locate (look in ~/Library/Application\ Support/MuseScore/MuseScore4/) and edit shortcuts.xml directly
Same for Shift or other modifiers in combination with the numbers row

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• Apr 4, 2025 - 10:44

Thanks @Jojo for your response.

The file you are referring to doesn't exist on my system.

I exported the shortcuts, edited them and re-imported.

8 as shortcut on its own still doesn't work.
There might be a conflict I don't see.

Got it work with Num+8 !
So I can continue with my preferred way of editing.
For reference, I attached my shortcuts.xml

BTW: It would be good if one could just reset all shortcuts, without resetting all other modified options in the preferences.

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