Sibelius 5 SmartNav computer control
This Grid was developed for SmartNav control of Sibelius 5 music composition software. It should be able to be adapted for more recent versions of Sibelius, as well as for other access methods.
Menus & Shortcuts need to be changed in Sibelius for this Grid set-up to work.
Set up preferences in Sibelius so that...
Menus & shortcuts: set to ‘Notebook (laptop) shortcuts’ to avoid problem of numeric keypad input from the Grid, then create and name a user definable copy of ‘Notebook shortcuts’ to which you need to apply the following changes:
• Tuplets: delete keyboard shortcuts for ‘Octopus’ and ‘non-tuplet’
• Selection: change ‘move object up’ to cntrl+8 and ‘move object down’ to control+9.
• Menus & shortcuts / Selection: add the following key commands:
• Extend selection left: shift + l
• Extend selection right: shift +r
• Extend selection up: shift + u
• Extend selection down: shift +n
Dynamics:
to change keyboard shortcuts for expression and dynamic marks, go file / preferences / word menus (not menus & shortcuts!)
Keyboard shortcuts that I've added:
• PP = ctrl + o
• FF = ctrl + g
• MP = control + m
• MF = ctrl + n
• file / preferences / word menus: add the following key commands
• PP = ctrl + o
• FF = ctrl + g
• MP = control + m
• MF = ctrl + n
Once these changes are made, close and then re-open Sibelius to ensure they are saved (and just incase sibelius crashes before the end of the session).
If you have any queries feel free to email dougbott@drakemusic.org
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