The Editors

The Editors

Important for all editors are the following keyboard shortcuts. Some of these only make sense for use with the Score-, Drum- and PianoRollEditor.

All Editors Keyboard Shortcuts

Table 3.1. All Editors Keyboard Shortcuts

keydescription
ESC unmark the selection
CTRL + Z undo
CTRL + SHFT + Z redo
ALT + P print
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

General rules for mouse actions

  • 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.

  • Moving the mouse over a note changes the mouse cursor.

  • Pressing the left mouse button on a note selects that note.

  • 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.

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