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Notation Editor Keyboard Commands

The following is a list of all available key commands in all the Notation editors. Within the editors, pushing h will bring up a partial list of these commands. Some commands will not function in all the editors. See Tutorial 26 for a look at how the keyboard commands work together. Edit mode is the green cursor brought up by option-clicking on a note or chord. Insert mode is the red cursor brought up by option-clicking between notes or by hitting tab in Edit mode.

Action| Result
—|—
option-click| In Voice and Poly: On a note or chord, enters Edit mode (green cursor) for that chord. Beween objects, enters insert mode (red cursor). In Chord-seq, add a note.
enter| Add note to existing Chord (Edit mode only)
delete| remove element
tab| move cursor to next Chord (into Edit mode)
num lock (function-clear for laptops)| Toggle note/rest
space| Start/Stop playback
->/<-| Move between Chords (Edit mode)
↓/↑| Transpose selected note(s). Use shift for bigger leaps.
c| Toggles channel color coding for note display
h| Displays help window
o| Opens individual element editor for the selected objects
g| Chord-seq only: show/hide grille lines.
G| Chord-seq only: Change distance between grille lines.
a| Chord-seq only: Snap note(s) to grille lines.
z| Toggle selection mode for Play Selected button. Select a time span by dragging with the mouse when on.
=| In Edit mode, toggle tie to the next chord. ( Voice only)
.| In Edit mode, dots the chord.( Voice only)
1-9| With notes selected, subdivides them into a tuplet of that value.
1-9| In Edit or Insert modes, adds new notes/changes note values. See Tutorial 26.