Staff View - Keyboard Shortcuts

[David Thomas]

Is there a way to use the computer keyboard to select note durations?  I hate to move my mouse from the position on the staff to select different durations.

Thanks,

Dave Thomas, AKA Poco

[Michael Richards]

I spend a good deal of my day in the staff view, but for note durations it is much easier to view and edit in the piano roll. You can edit the lengths of each note very easily this way.

[David Thomas]

Thanks, Michael.  I am transcribing music from printed page into CW, so staying in staff view is the most convenient method.

[David Thomas]

Hey, I just found this in the cool new reference guide.  It at lease keeps the mouse in the general vicinity of the NOW time (assuming a note of the desired duration is nearby):

[David Thomas]

Aaaaand then there's this.

[Max Arwood]

I find it way easier to play it in and quantize to get the midi in cakewalk . An even better way to to scan it in. Their are some great music scanning apps. They work extremely well. (Unless it is hand written). If it is difficult to play, you could slow down the tempo and the play to 1/2 or even 1/4 tempo.  I have played in 100’s of 4-10 part songs. The good thing about playing them in (even with a mediocre performance) is that you could quantize 50% and still have something that’s not robotic sounding. You could use one of those scan apps for a 2 week trial and get a ton of songs in the computer. (They will be mechanical sounding). You could randomize them for a more natural sound. 

[Jimbo 88]

Yes, I un-dock  both staff view and Piano roll View...look at staff view and edit in Piano Roll. It really helps if you multiple monitors.

[Max Arwood]

I like clicking on a note to get the values. It is a big time saver!

[mgustavo]

Hi, still talking about keyboard shortcuts on Staff View, I'd like to ask help on how to call Lyrics, Chords, Expression, Hairpin and Pedal using shortcuts.
Because when I hover the mouse over these buttons it appears [Y] for lyrics, [C] for chords, [I] for expression, etc. But that doesn't seem to work!
Thanks in advance!

Edited October 27, 2023 by mgustavo

[Max Arwood]

Those are like alt-y

[mgustavo]

Hi, Max Arwood, thanks for the tip, but here it's not working!
Anyway I assigned them as keybindings, but maybe it will be better to click the buttons like before! 🙂
Best regards,

Edited October 28, 2023 by mgustavo

[Max Arwood]

I don't remember it, but I must have set up shortcuts for Lyrics etc. Page 624 in the github docs might help some.

https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/Cakewalk Reference Guide.pdf

There is a floating toolbar, you can use in the staff view. Press the mouse roll wheel. 

 

Playscore2 free 1 week trial scan to MIDI or XML (unless you are working from handwritten scores)

There is another one for iphone I have used it some, but I can't remember the name of it.

Cakewalk can import XML

Windows version

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/playscore-2/9MW52N003G4D?hl=en-us&gl=ushttps://apps.microsoft.com/detail/playscore-2/9MW52N003G4D?hl=en-us&gl=us

You can do a lot of scores in 1 week! You will probably have to do some corrections, but it's way faster than 1 note at a time.

 

EDIT ->

You might look at this one too - MusicReader - It has higher ratings

 

Edited October 28, 2023 by Max Arwood
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[Promidi]

For the PRV and Staff view, I have set key bindings to set the durations  (I use the top row of numbers to set various durations)

In the Staff view, I have set the L key to enable lyrics entry.

So in answer to your question “Is there a way to use the computer keyboard to select note durations?” is, yes you can.