I was hoping the smart tool would work the same in staff view as it does in PRV.  Anyone have any ideas on how to make it work w/o having to revert to the keyboard, or go up to the icon so often?  Thanks.  

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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Thanks Scott.  Not different note durations necessarily, but just changing between delete and add a note and move and then scrub to listen to one measure.  Now I'm always having to hit F5 or the delete icon or J or something. 

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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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.)

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

The only thing I use the keyboard for when using the Smart Tool is having to press 'j' for scrub - all other commands can be invoked directly from the Mouse.

I also 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 :)

Bristol...even in staff view?

Thank you, Loptec...I'll try that.  I figured there had to be a way to do that!

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