Table of Contents
Write mode
Write mode allows you to input and edit your music, including changing the rhythmic positions of items, changing the pitch of notes, and deleting notes and items. The available toolboxes and panels allow you to input all the notes and notation items that are most commonly used.
Note input
In Dorico Pro, you can only input notes during note input, which is when the caret is activated. This allows you to input notations at the caret position at the same time as inputting notes, and also reduces the risk of you adding notes to staves accidentally.
Inputting notes
You can input notes into your project during note input, which is when the caret is activated. You can input notes with a computer keyboard, with the mouse, or by playing notes with a MIDI keyboard.
Changing the input pitch setting
You can input and record notes at either sounding pitch or written pitch according to the current layout, for example, if you want to record notes at their sounding pitch in transposing part layouts.

Changing the input pitch setting

You can input and record notes at either sounding pitch or written pitch according to the current layout, for example, if you want to record notes at their sounding pitch in transposing part layouts.

In concert pitch layouts, written pitch and sounding pitch are the same.

Procedure

Choose one of the following input pitch settings:
- To input/record notes at their written pitch, choose Write > Input Pitch > Written Pitch.
- To input/record notes at their sounding pitch, choose Write > Input Pitch > Sounding Pitch.

Result

The resulting pitch notated or recorded is changed. For example, if you input a C in a Horn in F transposing part layout with the input pitch set to Sounding Pitch, the note is written as a G.