What I asked was how to have finale display everything in the key of C, but still preserve the ability for finale to play back correctly.
And actually the link I cited worked perfectly for me, so I have a transposed score and parts that when I play it back via midi it plays correctly and more importantly it can now be exported into smart music. Sent from my iSomething On Jan 2, 2011, at 12:21 AM, Robert Patterson <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay I'm confused. I was under the impression that either the concert key of > Eric's piece overall was C major or else the piece as a whole had no key > signature. He said Alto Sax had 3 sharps and Bb trumpet 2, which is > consistent with C Major (or no key sig). For that case, Chromatic > Transposition is sufficient and there is no need to set any Independent > elements in any staff's attributes. In fact doing so may just make your life > harder, so Eric should by all means ignore that link he cited. > > If the key as whole has a key signature (e.g., the piano part has a key > signature), but there are transposiing instruments for which you would like > to suppress the key signature, there is a procedure that will do it > flawlesly for you, but it is not the one in the link Eric cited, and it does > not involve Chromatic Transposition. (The approach Eric cited gets close but > it is not perfect.) Eric, let me know if this is what you need. If so, it > would be easiest for me to describe the solution if you provide specifics: > what key is the piece and on which specific transposing instrument(s) do you > want to suppress key signatures? > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
