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Old 05-21-2016, 01:13 AM   #1
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Default Notation Sibelius Action List

I'm working on a 'Sibelius Action list' to share with the community. This should in theory give the same workflow to a user coming from Sibelius (with as few differences as possible, but maybe even better than Sibelius).

(note, NumLock must be on for this to work)


https://stash.reaper.fm/32946/ReaNote18.ReaperConfigZip <<--newest!

https://stash.reaper.fm/32266/ReaNote17.ReaperConfigZip

Here's what I have so far

A,B,C,D,E,F,G - input note.
-up/down raises or lowers the pitch 1 semitone.
-ctrl up/down raises or lowers the pitch 1 octave.
-1-8 add interval above the selected note.

num-pad - change note lengths whole, half, quarter etc. 456123.
__________Num4 = quarter
__________Num5 = half
__________Num6 = Whole
__________Num1 = 32nd
__________Num2 = 16th
__________Num3 = 8th


Holding ALT does the same thing, but with triplets!
Ctrl . will add a 'dot'.

Ctrl-Alt 1/2/3/4 = Change midi note channel for selected notes. New notes will also be created in this channel.




navigate
-Arrow keys select previous / next note
-Alt-up/down = Select note (up/down) in a chord
-Ctrl-Shift-A = Select chord
-Alt-Right/Left = Select next/previous note with same pitch
-Shift left/right adds previous/next note to selection
-Shift up/down adds lower/higher note to selection
-ctrl left/right move cursor forward/backward 1 bar*
-Ctrl-Alt left/right move cursor forward/backward 1 grid.
-ctrl-alt-shift + right/left = scrolling
-ctrl-alt-backspace = cycle through reaper windows (like alt-tab in Windows).
-ctrl-F = Float Instrument *needs .lua*

-ctrl A select all
-alt A deselect all
-Num7 notate as natural
-Num8 = notate as sharp
-Num9 = notate as flat
-Z stem direction down
-X stem direction up
-ctrl-shift-up move note to upper staff
-ctrl-shift-down move note to lower staff

-ctrl num+/- zoom in/out vertically
-num+/- zoom in/out horizontally
-T Change time signature/tempo.



Some non-sibelius hotkeys I've added
M Navigate edit cursor to start of selected events
, Navigate edit cursor to end of selected events
shift A selects all notes in measure
Ctrl A: Select all notes
Alt A: Deselect all notes
Ctrl Shift A Select all notes in measure
Ctrl-Shift-Click-drag Select notes and timeloop.**
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Down This will select the same notes in the next track, that you currently have selected.
Ctrl-Shift B Add bar to end of file.

Alt-Space - Play from start of file.
Ctrl-L Loop-play selected notes.

L: make selected notes legato
(adds slur and slight overlap)
Ctrl W "staccato" (adds staccato articulation and switches notes to channel 2).
Ctrl W "portato" (adds portato articulation and switches notes to channel 3).
Ctrl . = Make note dotted.
x = Selected notes to 'upper' voice, stems up.
z = Selected notes to 'lower' voice, stems down.
Ctrl-T = Add Text


alt T Minimize ties
S = toggle snap to grid (changed split to alt-S)
V = view tracks
Backspace Undo last note input.


Moving the cursor and notes
ctrl-alt left/right = move cursor by grid
ctrl left/right = move cursor by measure
ctrl-shift left/right = move cursor by pixel
Do the same with Num 4-6 = move notes the same way

Ctrl-R = Rename current note (useful for keyswitches).
Ctrl-Double-Click = Rename current note (I like this better). **

Ctrl-F = Float Instrument VSTi***

Non-Midi

Ctrl-Alt-0 = Set effects for selected tracks Offline
Ctrl-Atl-O = Set effects for selected tracks Online



**Download Mouse Modifiers Here
https://stash.reaper.fm/v/29997/ReaN...MIDI_PIANOROLL

*** Float Instrument from score view requires this LUA
https://stash.reaper.fm/v/30462/float%20instrument.lua

What I haven't been able to achieve
click a bar to select bar (there's 'edit: Select all notes in measure, I'm trying to put is as a 'mouse modifier' but there's no option to take something from the action menu in the 'piano roll' mouse modifier section. It would be brilliant if Reaper could make this graphically identical to Sibelius (click a bar, a nice blue highlight, do what you want to the bar).

ctrl left/right to select first note in previous/next bar (though I have something similar).
alt up/down select higher/lower note in a chord
I think devs need to create an action "Navigate: select higher note" "Navigate: select lower note"
Numbers 1-9 create an interval above the selected note,
I managed to do this kindof, if the note is selected and you press M to get the edit cursor in the right place, you can press a number and it will add the pitch that man semitones above. Holding shift will do the same for intervals below. Adding ctrl will allow for double digits, e.g. ctrl-shift-0 makes the interval that many semitones below. ctrl-2 adds 1 octave above.
click an empty space 'grab' to move the 'page' around.
(That nice little 'grabbing hand' should appear.

I'm glad to finally contribute something; hope this helps (and this is the right forum). Let me know if anything's missing (that Sibelius has). I'm constantly updating this in order to achieve the optimal workflow.
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