To double a line up an octave? Transpose totally comes to mind. What
else would you be doing? I mean, from a musical point of view, I'd say
to myself "yeah, that line would be really cool doubled up an octave".
Then I'd go, ok, I'll TRANSPOSE it up an octave. And low and behold,
there is a little box there to preserve the existing notes. Totally
makes sense to me. What else would I be doing to a line OTHER than
Transposing it? Mass moving it? No.
Seriously, it makes sense where it is. It doesn't make sense at all to
move it somewhere else.
David W. Fenton wrote:
I agree that the functionality should be "user discoverable" instead
of requiring going to the manuals.
But the question is: where does the functionality I needed belong in
the program? It seemed like a "Composer's Assistant" kind of feature
to me, so I first looked in the plug-ins.
I understand why it's convenient to put the function in the
transposition dialog, since it's a place to hang the feature on, and
one that is easy to use once you know it's there.
But it really isn't what I'd call a transposition function, and
that's the problem -- there is nothing logical from a *musical* point
of view that makes it obvious that this is where the function
belongs.
I don't know where it should be.
I do know that the transposition dialog is not a place that would
come to mind intuitively.
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