Performing the same action to several or all instruments
If I have a muti-instrument score and I want to do the same thing to every staff/instrument. For example I want to insert a crescendo or a dynamic marking such as mp or fff on all the staffs at the same beat. Is there a way to do this? I always just do the same action N times for N staffs.
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Many markings can be applied to multiple items at once by first selecting all the items, then double clicking the palette symbol. So dynamics can easily be applied that way. But the double click method doesn't work for items that require two end points, like hairpins. Those will have to be placed manually. Still, I recall you mention using drag and drop, and that isn't needed for hairpins. Shortcuts are "H" and "Shift+H"in 1.3, "<" and ">" in the experimental development builds, and you can even select the full range of notes you want to apply to before hitting the shortcut, thus saving the trouble of extending each.
In reply to Many markings can be applied by Marc Sabatella
great, thanks for the information. that will be very useful
In reply to Many markings can be applied by Marc Sabatella
Hi Mark, could you please elaborate on how this key sequence is supposed to work? I've selected a dotted half note on 5 staffs of 5 different instruments and pressed > and also pressed shift-H but I don't see any hair pin appearing. Maybe I'm missing something obvious?
I'm using 2bf563b
In reply to Can't get > or Shift H to do anything. by jim.newton.562
Did you reset the settings?
What does preferences->shortcuts show for crescendo/decrescendo?
it should add a hairpin between the first and the last selected note, not a sforzato to every selected one though
In reply to Did you reset the by Jojo-Schmitz
The shortcuts indicate that < and > are Add Crescendo and Add Decrescendo respectively. I can drag and drop the hairpins into the score. that works correctly, and they draw correctly. however, the < and > shortcut keys don't do anything.
What's the usage? do I need to select a note, or group of notes, or measure before pressing the < and > keys? Do I need to be in note-entry mode? etc?
Jim
In reply to I checked the shortcuts by jim.newton.562
you select first note (click) and optionally last note (either with shift-click or Ctrl/Cmd-click) then press < or >. Outside Note Entry mode in the latter case (inside you won't be able to select more than one note), and doesn't matter in the former case.
At least it works that way for me, on Windows 7
In reply to I checked the shortcuts by jim.newton.562
Since different keyboards have different layouts, it wouldn't shock me to learn that "<" and ">" in fact *don't* work on some keyboards. So please try the steps above (select note or notes first, then press shortcut) and report back whether it works for you in a recent development build. And if not, say what keyboard layout you have (if you don't know, then saying what country you live or bought your computer in would be useful).
In reply to Since different keyboards by Marc Sabatella
I'm using a macbook air. I think it is an american keyboard, but it might be british. I'm not sure which. There is a $ on the 4 key and an @ on the 2 key. the < and > keys are shifted versions of the , and. keys.
In reply to I'm using a macbook air. I by jim.newton.562
So it is an US keyboard, the UK keyboard would have a £ instead of the $
In reply to So it is an US keyboard, the by Jojo-Schmitz
it seems like when I ordered it I has several choices of english keyboards, UK, UK, International, and maybe some more. I don't remember which I chose. But this is the one I received in the end.
http://www.google.fr/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fkm.support.apple.com%2F…
In reply to I'm using a macbook air. I by jim.newton.562
And are you saying when you follow the instructions given above - outside note entry mode, select a series of adjacent notes, press "<" - you don't get a crescendo?
In reply to And are you saying when you by Marc Sabatella
I just discovered that the < key works the but the > key does not.
Can I temporarily change the bind key for the Add Crescendo just to see if it is a question of key mapping?
In reply to Since different keyboards by Marc Sabatella
This is my keyboard
http://www.google.fr/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fkm.support.apple.com%2F…
In reply to Did you reset the by Jojo-Schmitz
BTW Jojo, I believe it was you who fixed the problem that the 3rd hairpin caused a crash. With the latest nightly build I can confirm (that for me) adding hairpins no longer causes a crash. Thanks for the great work. :-)
In reply to no hairpin crash by jim.newton.562
Don't think that was me
In reply to Did you reset the by Jojo-Schmitz
I've also just now discovered that if I press two consecutive notes and press Shift-S, it does not insert a slur. Should it?
In reply to I've also just now discovered by jim.newton.562
not for me, a plain s should do though
In reply to not for me, a plain s should by Jojo-Schmitz
yes, unshifted s works for me. The shortcuts tab of the preferences shows an S, ok it is without the shift symbol so that was confusing. But I understand now.
In reply to yes, unshifted s works for by jim.newton.562
It's the same convention used in many other applications, which isn't entirely logical but at least is more or less consistent: shortcuts are labelled according the what actually appears on the key. The key that produces a lowercase "s" is nonetheless labelled with a capital "S", so that's how the shortcut is labelled.
The problem with ">" is that Shift+. (period) is the usual shortcut for adding a staccato dot. So on keyboards where Shift+. is ">" (and that's how it is on mine too), it seems there will be a conflict. And indeed, that key combination does nothing on my system - neither staccato nor hairpin. I see an error message on the console log - "Ambiguous shortcut overload".
So, I guess we need a solution. Hairpin used to be "H" but was changed because that key was needed in tablature entry for French (?) lute, which uses letters rather than numbers to indicate frets. "<" and ">" seem to beautifully logical, I hate to give them up, but then, so is something involving "." for staccato.
In reply to It's the same convention used by Marc Sabatella
OK, I understand. But why does musescore want to create shortcut keys for everyone? There are so many different keyboards around the world where keys appear in funny places. Can I the user just set my shortcut keys as I like?
In reply to OK, I understand. But why by jim.newton.562
Yes you can. Unfortunately not all keys though, depending on keyboard
In reply to OK, I understand. But why by jim.newton.562
Edit / Preferences / Shortcuts. So yes, the workaround is, define the shortcut to work with your keyboard.
Still, it's an issue if the default does not work on a significant number of keyboards. I have no way of knowing how common it is worldwide for ">" to reside above ".", but in the US at least, it's pretty standard.