On 22 Jun 2002, Laura Conrad wrote: > >>>>> "laurie" == laurie griffiths <Laurie> writes: > > laurie> Why does transposition need to understand the mode? > > Currently, the abc2midi transposer only understands the key > signature. So if I have a piece in D dorian, and I transpose it up 3 > half notes, the transposed output is in Ab. It should be in F dorian.
And even worse: most (all?) guitar-chords with a black-key root is translated into sharp rooted version: X:1 T:test M:4/4 L:1/4 C:Atte K:C "C"CDEF | "Bb7"GFED | "Ab7"C4 | "G7"z4 Becomes this after "abc2abc org.abc -t 2" (the A#7 should have been Bb7): X: 1 T:test M:4/4 L:1/4 C:Atte K:D "D"DEFG | "C7"AGFE | "A#7"D4 | "A7"z4 although "abc2abc org.abc -t 5" is ok: X: 1 T:test M:4/4 L:1/4 C:Atte K:F "F"FGAB | "Eb7"cBAG | "Db7"F4 | "C7"z4 Maybe it's because my harmonies are more chromatic than my melodies, but I fell the most transposition hickups by abc2abc is in the guitar-chords... -- love, peace & harmony Atte To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
