Make default pedal continue until first beat of next measure
Putting in pedals that sound the way I want them to is a pain. I have to, for every single measure, select the first note in it, shift click to the first in the next measure, and add the pedal. And unless I'm missing something, that's the only way to do it.
Clicking the pedal mark in the pallete with only one note selected puts a pedal mark until the end of the measure, just one beat shy of what I want. What if that was elongated to the first beat of the next so that it takes 2 clicks (or even a keyboard shortcut) for each measure instead of 4? This would save a ton of time. It might even increase overall score quality because the painful amount of time required to add pedal would be reduced.
And if you want the pedal added the way it is now, you can select an entire measure with just one click behind the notes. I don't see why this would be a problem to implement, can it happen?
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It would help for those specific cases where you want the pedal to exactly be one measure plus one note, but that's hardly the only possible length. in most cases you'd still need to select the exact range. That said, it probably wouldn't hurt to special-case this particular situation since it does seem to be a common error.
BTW< probably the faster way to do it current is click the measure then Shift+Right to extent the selection by one note, then add the pedal. If you define a keyboard shortcut for "Apply current palette element" (highly recommended for efficiency) you can extremely quickly add pedal markings in one go. If you prefer keyboard only, you could probably find a set of cursor motions that does this selection, but best I could find that works after inserting the pedal is Shift+L, Cltr+Right, Shift+Ctrl+Right, Shift+Right. Probably a plugin could reduce that to one keystroke.
In reply to It would help for those… by Marc Sabatella
Personally I don't understand when the default setting currently would be useful. It creates weird gaps in playback and doesn't connect with the one in the next measure.
Although, thanks for the new keyboard shortcut, it'll be helpful :)
In reply to Personally I don't… by BestBerry
For pedal specifically, it's not especially useful - I guess the case where pedal is used sparingly, only a measure here and a measure there. But the default is definitely quite useful for other lines, and they all share the same code. As I said, it could conceivably be special-cased someday. But realistically, music where pedal changes exactly one per measure is probably not the majority of cases.
In reply to For pedal specifically, it's… by Marc Sabatella
Ah, I didn't realize it was programmed like all of the other lines. That would make more sense. I would definitely appreciate a special case but it isn't all that urgent I guess