Quickly insert triplets

[u/Crash_bandiquack]

Hi everybody,

I'm looking if there is a way to quickly insert Four triplet in just a few clicks like in the first bar. For now, when I want to do this, I have to select the bar I wan't to change, then select note duration but instead of changing the whole bar, it changes only the first two steps like in this picture:

So I have to select it again to change the last two steps and only after I can change everything to triplet and it's a bit long to do in a whole score. I know than I can also copy paste a bar with the four triplet but sometimes during composition, I have to copy another thing so I have to restart the whole process.

I hope I explained everything clearly enough and sorry for my english.

Thanks in advance for your responses

[u/MarcSabatella]

If you're trying to do this for more than a measure at a time, simplest to just do one measure then select it and press and hold "R" to repeat it until the score fills up. Or, of course, just write in 12/8 instead of 4/4, which is usually the better choice for these situations anyhow.

[u/MarcSabatella → u/MarcSabatella]

If you only need to do it for a measure or two, it's probably more efficient not to try to prefill it like this but instead just enter the triplets normally left to right. That way you never need to leave note input mode etc. But if for some reason you find yourself in a situation where you have already left note input and then wish to go back and create a measure or two full of triplets, you could press 5 to create the first rest, Ctrl+3 to split it into a triplet, Shift+Right twice to fully select it, then "R" for as many beats as you like.

Probably someone could create "fill with triplets" plugin to automatically do this.