Smart tool in staff view?

Hi Janet,

Do you mean when trying to select different note durations? For that, you can click your middle mouse button (or press T on your keyboard) to bring up the Tools HUD. Then choose a duration from the drop-down menu that's labeled with 1/4 (or some other numeric duration).

Scott

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Hi Janet,

Oh, okay. Well, you can do most of those things with the one Smart tool, but yeah, they require keyboard shortcuts. X1 relies heavily on the keyboard and there's not really any way around that.

Scott

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I am on the same page as Janet - I like to write music

Janet


Phooey...I wish I would have known that before I bought it.  Oh well, I can use 8.5 for composing and editing and then see if X1 offers anything I can use for mixing.  Thanks Scott! 

(8.5 relies on the keyboard too, but with the keys being all grouped together on the left side, it's extremely fast and not cumbersome at all.)

you can still bind any key you want to the tools you need in preferences -> keyboard shortcuts.

for example:
d = global draw tool
e = global erase tool
s = global select tool

this won't give you the same functions as the smart tool in PRV but it'll give you back what you had in 8.5 :)

Ah, no Janet - I do all my writing in the PRV - that's if I can't play it via keyboard Lol!!

Hey guys,   not sure if this helps, but...I picked up a Logitech G110 gaming computer keyboard a while back.  It has 12 "smart keys" (x3 so actually 36 with a push of a button) on the side that you can program keystrokes.  I  like using keybindings and X1 took a lot of those. 

I would think you could be able to program the keyboard to compensate for any keybinding or smart tool short comings.  It works well for me.

reminds me i need to reset the bindings for my pcr500 because those are all needing to be reset as I reinstalled sonar a few weeks ago

Loptec...hey, that works.  And I'm about as happy as you look in your avatar.  :)  THANK YOU!!!  :)  

Now...onward and forward...until I find the next issue.  :)