User manual

The Key Signatures section contains the following parts:
1 Major/Minor
Allow you to choose whether your key signature is Major or Minor.
2
More Sharps/Fewer Flats
Each time you click, you add one sharp accidental to the key signature, or remove
one at accidental from the key signature.
3 Fewer Sharps/More Flats
Each time you click, you remove one sharp accidental from the key signature, or
add one at accidental to the key signature.
4
Input key signature
Shows how the key signature looks on a staff. Clicking this button inputs the
displayed key signature. If nothing in the project is selected, the key signature is
loaded onto the mouse pointer.
Accidentals
Contains all accidentals available in the currently selected tonality system.
RELATED LINKS
Key signatures on page 608
Inputting key signatures with the popover
You can input key signatures using the key signatures popover, both during note input and by
adding them to existing music.
You can also input key signatures only on single staves.
NOTE
It is not necessary to input different key signatures for transposing instruments, as Dorico SE
automatically shows the appropriate key signatures for transposing instruments in transposing
layouts.
PROCEDURE
1. In Write mode, do one of the following:
● Start note input.
● Select an item at the rhythmic position where you want to input a key signature. If you
want to input a key signature on a single staff, select an item that belongs to that staff
only.
2. Optional: If you want to input key signatures onto multiple specic staves at once, extend
the caret to those staves.
3. Press Shift-K to open the key signatures popover.
4. Enter the key signature you want into the popover.
For example, enter g for G minor or 3s for 3 sharps.
NOTE
Entering 3s creates a key signature of A major, rather than F♯ minor.
5. Input the key signature and close the popover in one of the following ways:
●
To input a key signature on all staves, press Return .
●
To input a key signature only on the selected staff or staves across which the caret
extends, press Alt/Opt-Return .
Write mode
Notations input
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