Owain Sutton wrote:
One hassle I have is that much of what I deal with is microtonal, which makes converting from a concert-pitch microtonal score to transposed instrument parts a real pain (when oh when oh when will the 'nonstandard key signature' business be replaced by something (anything) better? Would it really be that difficult for a quarter-tone system to be available as a preset?)
24-tone equal temperament (quartertone tuning) is used only by a segment of the microtonal community. The "nonstandard key signature" feature has the great virtue of being adaptable to a wide variety of tuning systems, with as many accidentals and nominals as you need, and all of those which have constant structures can be transposed as needed via chromatic transposition. In combination with a microtonal relay program like InTun, Midi Relay, or Scala, Finale offers a powerful micrtonal capacity.
The only notation program with microtonal facility that is competitive with Finale is Lime. Lime has a table assigning pitch bends to each pitch and accidental combination. This eliminates the need for a relay program and is especially useful for those tunings in which the nominals vary from 12tet values. The disadvantage, however, is that the tuning table is limited to seven nominals and four accidentals -- 35 pitches in total.
An ideal microtonal program would combine both the "nonstandard key signature feature" for use when the tuning is controlled externally to Finale, _as is_, with a tuning table a la Lime, but more extensive, for use with FInale-internal pitch bends.
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