On Aug 19, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Aug 18, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Of course, doing this individually for every single staff in an
orchestra score is an incredible pain in the tuchus, but since
Setup Wizard won't let you choose "chromatic transposition"
instead of "key signature transposition" before you create the
score, there's no way around it without forgoing the setup wizard
altogether.
Your tuchus must have a low pain threshold. I never use the Setup
Wizard, and am frankly surprised that any professional would do
otherwise. Maybe I'm just a control freak.
It's no harder to revise a Setup Wizard decision than to start a
score from zero, and is in fact considerably easier. I'm a
professional, and I use the Setup Wizard all the time. Granted, I
have it start from my default file that I have extensively tweaked,
but I DO use the SW, and am frankly surprised at those who never use it.
Setting up the transpositions, chromatic or not, for a 40-staff
orchestral work should take about 5 minutes, tops.
Yes, I would have characterised the task as a mild PITT rather than
an incredible one, too. But maybe Darcy's workflow is so streamlined
now that he is more bugged by these kinds of kludges.
But the Setup Wizard is still a powerful tool, even for professionals.
Christopher
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