'Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord'

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Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - Jesper Elén, 04 May 01:09PM
     Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - Daniel Spreadbury, 04 May 02:06PM
         Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - Jesper Elén, 04 May 03:36PM
             Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - Bob Zawalich, 04 May 06:48PM
                 Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - Bob Zawalich, 04 May 06:49PM
                     Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - Jesper Elén, 04 May 07:09PM
                         Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - BignoseCaveman, 19 Mar 01:29AM
                             Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - Steven Edis, 19 Mar 08:25AM
                                 Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - aaronnt1, 30 Jul 09:30AM
                                     Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - Adrian Drover, 30 Jul 03:55PM
                                         Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - aaronnt1, 31 Jul 08:51AM

Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord
Posted by Jesper Elén - 04 May 01:09PM (edited 04 May 01:49PM)
Hi, I'm pretty fast at navigating the score with key commands, selecting, copying, moving between staffs etc. but there is one thing that slows me down tremendously. That is to select a whole chord on the current staff. Anyone know if this is possible with key commands?
I can navigate through the individual notes in the chord and shift layer etc. but every time I need to select the whole chord for copying I have to use the mouse and double-click. If there is nothing in the staff below or above I can shift-arrow to select the chord and the empty place in the other staff but that's usually not an option. I think I use half my time grabbing the mouse and double-click so if it's not possible I really would like to see it implemented.
Depending on the music but for jazz I constantly need to select a chord to arrange/explode it to the horns and my earlier request to be able to scrub/listen to all the tracks/layers with the arrows and some modifier key would also be great to have.

Jesper

Just made a plugin that selects the whole chord but still would be better if it was built in
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Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord
Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 04 May 02:06PM
Shift-Command-A.

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Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord
Posted by Jesper Elén - 04 May 03:36PM (edited 04 May 04:13PM)
Daniel, brilliant, can't believe I used Sibelius for so many years without knowing, Searched the manual several times but must have looked in the wrong place.

Thanks a million.

Jesper

It's totally logical, and I use the same command for selecting text so ought to have tried it.
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Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord
Posted by Bob Zawalich - 04 May 06:48PM
Is that shift-alt-a in Windows? That seems to do a system selection

You can accomplish much the same thing, with a passage selection, with shift-up arrow or shift-down arrow.

Is there a way to make a non-passage selection of an entire chord in one keystroke?

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Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord
Posted by Bob Zawalich - 04 May 06:49PM (edited 04 May 06:50PM)
Ah, it is shift-ctrl-a in Windows, and that answers my question. It just selects the notes with no passage.

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Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord
Posted by Jesper Elén - 04 May 07:09PM (edited 04 May 07:44PM)
Yes, that's the one Bob and it's really useful. I copy chords all the time.
It's in the manual under keyboard shortcuts -> multiple selections & passages.
(Select all noteheads in chord (Select More) ) I found out now that I know that it exists.

Jesper
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Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord
Posted by BignoseCaveman - 19 Mar 01:29AM
Is there any way to change the shift-command-A default? I don't see this in the list of keyboard shortcuts under selection...

Jonathan
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Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord
Posted by Steven Edis - 19 Mar 08:25AM
In my list of kbd shortcuts (on 6.2) it's under the 'Edit' category and is called 'Select More'.
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Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord
Posted by aaronnt1 - 30 Jul 09:30AM
Is there any way to make this the default? For instance, if I'm using the cursor arrow keys to go to a chord, is there the option that when the cursor lands on the chord, all notes in the chord are selected?

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Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord
Posted by Adrian Drover - 30 Jul 03:55PM
Seems that shft/ctrl/a has to be entered after every landing.
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Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord
Posted by aaronnt1 - 31 Jul 08:51AM
Ok thanks, that's what I suspected

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Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - Jesper Elén, 04 May 01:09PM
     Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - Daniel Spreadbury, 04 May 02:06PM
         Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - Jesper Elén, 04 May 03:36PM
             Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - Bob Zawalich, 04 May 06:48PM
                 Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - Bob Zawalich, 04 May 06:49PM
                     Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - Jesper Elén, 04 May 07:09PM
                         Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - BignoseCaveman, 19 Mar 01:29AM
                             Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - Steven Edis, 19 Mar 08:25AM
                                 Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - aaronnt1, 30 Jul 09:30AM
                                     Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - Adrian Drover, 30 Jul 03:55PM
                                         Re: Sib. 7.1: Selecting a chord - aaronnt1, 31 Jul 08:51AM