When in simple entry, pressing 4,5,6 etc changes the note duration that will be placed in the score next, when playing the note on MIDI (or clicking the note into the score.)
When pressing 9 however, the note that was just entered (the note already selected) changes to a triplet or away from a triplet. This is completely against the normal workflow of being able to select that the next note entered will be a triplet, WITHOUT affecting the currently selected note.
Some key commands are designed to modify the selected note, such as '.' (to add a dot) , '-' to make a flat, etc. It seems that 9 is one of these commands, that is designed to change the selected note to a triplet. If so... then what is the key command to make the next note you enter be a triplet?
I suggest that since a triplet 4ter,8th are metric values that are needed when entering in simple entry, that it should be possible to change the duration of the next note entered to be a triplet using a key command from among the range of numbers already used to set the duration, e.g. 2-8, so 9.
It would make more sense in the existing workflow to change 9 so that it makes the selected note a triplet, only if we are not in simple entry.
An alternative approach would be that while in simple entry, to use a modifier key such as CTL, CMD, ALT, etc to be the duration modifier to change the selected duration into a triplet version of that duration. For example, CTL-4 would change the duration of the note to be entered next to 8th note triplet. This would be in keeping with the sense that modifier keys modify the function that the normal key alone would activate.
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