NOTION Music Forum

Has anybody else noticed how frustrating it is to enter notes with accidentals on staves for transposing instruments? There is a logic to it, but following it as a user can make me cross-eyed:

If notes are entered with the point-and-click method on such a staff in Transposed View, accidentals must be entered as if the file were in Concert Tuning. In other words, if your file is in concert C major and want to add, say, a quarter-note C-natural to Clarinet part, you must enter it as a C-flat (the "logic" being that it sounds like a B-flat!), by pressing the keys Q and 2. If, in the same part, you want to add a D-sharp, it must be entered as is (Q, 3), because that pitch is sharpened both in Concert Tuning and Transposed.

Entering music this way can end up being a hunt-and-peck party if the key signature has lots of accidentals and the part has lots of non-scale notes. Can't this be fixed? I know, I know: I'll write up a bug report even though it isn't really a bug, just a really annoying shortcoming.

Best,
Thorrild

I'm just glad you explained the "logic" behind it. I could not figure out the pattern, only that sometimes the accidental needed to be different than what I wanted in order to function correctly!! Thanks for at least explaining why it works the way it does. Now, if they would just fix it....