Turning off Re-pitch mode?
It's great that MS has a "Re-pitch" feature (Ctrl+Shift+I) to change existing notes' spellings without changing their durations. (Much music has repeated rhythmic patterns with differently named notes, so this is very handy.)
How do you turn Re-Pitch off, though?? I thought Esc would, but it has no effect. Nor does for Note Entry, nor pressing Ctrl+Shift+I again, nor clicking the Tools > Re-Spell Pitches menu command (which could have a checkmark or something next to it to show it's activated, too, couldn't it?).
The Re-Pitch manual pages I've found are quite comprehensive about turning it on and using it—but none of them mention how to turn it off! 🤷♂️ Thanks!
P.S.: Is drag-duplicate currently broken? I've tried selecting objects, then holding Ctrl+Shift (Windows) and dragging them, but just get the red "no" symbol.
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Hi, you can turn off Re-pitch mode right clicking on the pencil icon and selecting Re-pitch mode (again). The Tools Re-spell is a different thing.
"How do you turn Re-Pitch off, though??"
I got fed up with this in MS3, so:
a) There is already a shortcut Ctrl+Shift+I for Note input: Enter Re-Pitch mode
b) So I assigned a new shortcut as Ctrl+Shift+N for Note input: Enter Step-Time mode
c) This allows me to switch between the default step-time mode and the helpful re-pitch mode.
I see that the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+N is still vacant in MS4, though the MS4 shortcut descriptions are slightly different in English. For example:
"Note input: toggle 'default (step-time)' mode"
"Note input: toggle 're-pitch existing notes' mode"
In reply to "How do you turn Re-Pitch… by DanielR
DanielR: Thanks—you're exactly right! (I'd actually created a Ctrl+Shift+D shortcut for "normal" mode, because MS's menu actually calls it "Default (step-time)". 😉 )
I was used to pressing Esc because that's how Sibelius did it. But it also returned you to Normal mode if you moved to another note with an arrow key, or clicked elsewhere in the score.
Now that I've used MS more, I actually like how it stays in the current mode till you tell it otherwise. When composing, and when juggling voicings when arranging, we often re-pitch non-contiguous sections of music—so MS gives more control over staying in one mode or the other. Nice!