#Dorico keyboard shortcuts series#

You can see how Dorico changes the enharmonic spellings of the notes to ﬁt the existing music.Īs you input notes using your MIDI keyboard, you may notice that Dorico automatically respells previous notes or chords as you continue inputting: for example, if you input, in the key of C major, E followed by G♯, Dorico will spell the second note as G♯,īut if you then input G natural, Dorico will respell the G♯ as A♭, because that spelling makes more sense in the context.

#Dorico keyboard shortcuts series#

When inputting onto a grand staff instrument such as a piano, Dorico will also use the context provided by any music already entered on the other staff: To show you an example, I’ll input the exact same series of notes twice, but in the ﬁrst bar the left hand of this piano music is spelt as F sharp major, and then in this bar is subsequently spelt as G ﬂat major.

Spellings that produce a simpler interval (for example, a major third rather than a diminished fourth), will also be preferred.

To get us started however, I’m going to show you some of the improvements made to MIDI input.Įnharmonic spellings chosen by Dorico now use a sophisticated algorithm that takes into consideration the current key signature, the intervals between the next and previous notes or chords, and the intervals between the notes of chords.īroadly speaking, Dorico will prefer to notate notes outside the key signature using sharps if the ﬁgure is rising, and using ﬂats if the ﬁgure is falling. Hi, I’m Anthony Hughes, and in this video I shall be showing you some of the new features brought to Play mode in version 1.1 of Dorico. Presented here in written form with the kind permission of its creator, Anthony Hughes, this tutorial is titled “Play Mode Improvements in Dorico”…

🎬 This article is a transcription of one of the excellent tutorial videos posted to the official Dorico YouTube channel.