Keyboard Shortcut for Cautionary Accidentals
I'm working a lot on transcribing very chromatic scores at the moment that incorporate a lot of cautionary accidentals. I'm usually fairly quick at inputting as I can do most of it using the keyboard and am very familiar with the shortcuts. My only issue is that there is no keyboard shortcut to add a sharp, flat, or natural sign! Of course for normal usage this isn't an issue as you can move up and down with the arrows, however if there's a note that is already supposed to be natural that I have to add a natural sign to do, I have to use my mouse to click on the natural sign every time.
I'd much rather there was a shortcut (optional even?? something that you could set yourself?) that you could press it and it give the note its correct cautionary accidental (along the lines of the j key), i.e. if it's already a flat from a previous flat in the bar it gives it its own flat. This would save me literally hours of time as I wouldn't have to interrupt my flow every time I need to add a cautionary accidental.
Comments
If you filter the shortcuts on "note input" you'll find those for accidentals as well.
In reply to If you filter the shortcuts… by jeetee
Thank you! I was searching for the words but they're marked as the sharp flat and natural symbols - silly me. It'll do for now, and will be considerably helpful though I would still like a 'cautionary' shortcut :)
In reply to Thank you! I was searching… by gcmrkennedy
There's also a plugin for courtesy accidentals. You run it after note entry, but it might be helpful in reducing the manual effort required on your end: https://musescore.org/en/project/add-and-remove-courtesy-accidentals
The plugin rocks, it has saved me more hours than I could possibly count.
I've been using MuseScore for over ten years, and working on it as a developer most of that time, but only just within the past few months finally also create keyboard shortcuts for the accidentals. Better late than never! I have shortcuts for both pre- and post- versions of the accidental commands.