Important for all editors are the following keyboard shortcuts. Some of these only make sense for use with the Score-, Drum- and PianoRollEditor.
Table 3.1. All Editors Keyboard Shortcuts
key | description |
---|---|
ESC | unmark the selection |
CTRL + Z | undo |
CTRL + SHFT + Z | redo |
ALT + P | |
ALT + W | close editor |
ALT + SPACE | set the insert pointer (to the current mouse position) |
ALT + X | cut selection |
ALT + C | copy selection |
ALT + V | paste selection |
DEL | delete selection |
ALT + 1..7 | set current duration to 1..1/64th |
ALT+CTRL + 1..7 | set the gid to 1..1/64th |
ALT + dot | toggle dot (duration * 1.5) |
ALT + T | toggle triplet |
ALT + E | toggle note bar |
KeyRight | move the note cursor to the right |
KeyLeft | move the note cursor to the left |
KeyUp | transpose the selected note or area one half tone up |
KeyDown | transpose the selected note or area one half tone down |
PageUp | move the track cursor up |
PageDown | move the track cursor down |
Enter | start playback |
Zero (Num) | stop playback |
Pressing the left mouse button somewhere inside the canvas inserts a note at that pitch and position.
Pressing the left mouse button inside the canvas and releasing it somewhere else selects the notes inside the specified area.
Pressing the left mouse button on a note and moving the mouse moves that note (or selection) to the pitch and position the mouse button is released.
Different editors have different context menus, when the right mouse button is pressed over a note.
The bottom area of most editors shows the velocity (volume) values of the notes displayed above. Use the mouse to change a sinlge velocity value, or simply drag the mouse in that area to obtain a crescendo or decrescendo.
For developers: All editors are based on an abstract editor class (PrPartEditor), which makes it easy to implement new Editors of any kind.