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1. #Sibelius first key command mac for cursor tool mac os
2. #Sibelius first key command mac for cursor tool series

Let’s say you wanted to add Lyrics above. These are the ‘Key Tips.’ Click on the corresponding letter on your keyboard and that tab opens with letters on each item in that tab. If you open the ribbon and press and release the control key you will see a letter assigned to each tab. With the introduction of the ribbon interface in Sibelius 7 came another type of keyboard shortcut, ‘Key Tips.’ This is a ‘as needed’ keyboard shortcut. Now try your shortcut again but make sure you hold down that control key while pressing the other key(s) you’ve assigned to the keyboard shortcut. If you hit the escape key once or twice the key tips go away. What are all those letters and why isn’t my shortcut working? The letters are ‘Key Tips” and your shortcut isnt’ working because when you pressed the control key you let up on it before you pressed the letter key you were going to use. But then I look up at the ribbon and see this: I’ll use a keyboard shortcut that uses the control key and the shortcut doesn’t work. Here’s a type of a keyboard shortcut ‘caveat’ that I have run into. Click on the different features and uncheck them and the keys are now freed up for use in Sibelius and other applications. Go to System Preference>Keyboard>Keyboard Shortcuts. Good new is you can turn them off in the Mac OS. Personally, I don’t use these features enough to lose the function key in Sibelius to them.

#Sibelius first key command mac for cursor tool mac os

The Mac OS has a lot features assigned to the function keys, Dashboard & Dock, Expose and more. Today it may be exporting as MusicXML, tomorrow Renotate Performance plug-in, for me it’s going on F13, so I don’t have to keep digging for it. So if I find myself using a plug-in or tool from the ribbon a lot today, I’ll make a quick trip over to preferences and assign it to F13. And you find yourself calling it up again and again.įor this consider leaving a function key open for your “Key Of The Day.” For me it’s F13.

But there will be those days where you will discover one plug-in, that is making your life so much easier TODAY. But let’s face it you don’t use every tool or plug-in at your disposal every day. There are so many features in Sibelius, I don’t think you could possibly add a keyboard shortcut for them all. I’ve got just a few more thoughts on this subject so here we go with part 3!

#Sibelius first key command mac for cursor tool series

In part 1 of this series we looked at Sibelius‘s built in keyboard shortcuts, in part 2 we explored organizing, memorizing and creating your own keyboard shortcuts.