On Aug 5, 2007, at 12:21 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Yes, but Finale's Chromatic Transposition is seriously flawed compared to Sibelius's, which allows one-click enabling of the option ("Atonal/Open Key" is a key signature, a separate key signature choice from "C major")
But in Sibelius you CAN set some instruments separately to Open Key, like traditional orchestral horn, trumpet and timpani parts, while leaving the others key-based? If not, that would be a very large problem!
Finale forces you to choose "Chromatic Transposition" for each instrument individually, one by one. Plus you must set it in any instrument staff styles you may have, which is a *huge* pain, especially if a client changes their mind about whether or not they want a key signature. You can't even choose an open key score in the Setup Wizard, which would be logical place to put this option.
Yes, indeed!
Chord symbols attached to chromatically transposing staves don't transpose correctly. (This is an extremely annoying but easily- fixed bug I've been complaining about for over ELEVEN YEARS, to no avail.) The Cautionary Accidentals plugin still does not work correctly on chromatically transposing instruments. The list goes on and on...
I know (of course!) about the chords, and the Cautionary Accidental plugin problems, but what else is there? Can you be specific? (This is not challenging; I just want to know about the problems!)
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