You say by "hitting enter" but in my setup that does nothing. Could you
elaborate the procedure in detail? When I hold down a chord on the midi
keyboard, I have to hit a number for anything to happen.

Also, please confirm you are using Fin2012.

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Christopher Smith <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> I meant turn the chord into a different one by holding it down on the MIDI
> keyboard and hitting Enter. If you have any notes that have been
> enharmonically flipped in the original chord, then the spelling can act
> weird in the new chord. Obviously, this will show better if there ARE
> altered notes in the new chord. It happens regardless if the staff is
> transposing or not. Chromatic transposition brings a whole new level of
> crazy in as well, but the problems I outline happen on concert staves. If
> you are having trouble getting it to show, try diminished 7th chords, flip
> a few notes (more than once on the same chord) and then try to enter a
> different diminished chord by hitting Enter. Are all the spellings correct
> according to the settings you use?
>
> This may behave differently if Enharmonic Spelling options are set to Use
> Spelling Tables or Use Default Spelling. I haven't really explored it,
> because I consider the 9 key to be broken now. I only need to be bitten
> once to dismiss the whole thing. I don't want to have to keep going back
> and verifying spellings in my pieces because one (or more!) may have
> flipped when I wasn't looking.
>
> Christopher
>
>
> On Fri Oct 12, at FridayOct 12 10:09 PM, Robert Patterson wrote:
>
> > That simple procedure (in Fin2012) presents no problems for me. Does the
> > staff need to be a transposing staff? I don't really understand what you
> > mean by "repitch it by holding down a new chord on the MIDI keyboard and
> > hitting Enter." When I do what I read you to be saying, nothing happens,
> so
> > there must be a step I'm missing.
> >
> > To confirm once again, we are talking about Fin2012, right?
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Christopher Smith <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Try hitting 9 twice or more while on a chord. Then repitch it by holding
> >> down a new chord on the MIDI keyboard and hitting Enter. Are the note
> >> spelled as expected? Try exploding it. Are the notes still spelled
> >> correctly? About quarter to half the time the bug shows in my
> experience. I
> >> don't use chromatic transposition all that often, but I still see
> problems
> >> in normally-transposed and concert staves.
> >>
> >> Usually in a single note part, hitting 9 once on a note is okay. But do
> >> you remember EVERY note you have invoked the 9 key on? Going back and
> >> changing pitches in parts (which I do with depressing regularity)
> causes me
> >> to see this bug all the time.
> >>
> >> Christopher
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri Oct 12, at FridayOct 12 9:03 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Chuck,
> >>>
> >>> I believe you always work with key signatures, though, correct? As far
> >> as I know, the problem affects only staves set to chromatic
> transposition.
> >>>
> >>> If there is anyone on the list who:
> >>>
> >>> (A) routinely uses scores where instruments are set to use chromatic
> >> (not key signature) transposition...
> >>>
> >>> ... and...
> >>>
> >>> (B) *used* to experience problems using the 9 key to flip enharmonics
> >> under previous versions of Finale...
> >>>
> >>> ... and...
> >>>
> >>> (C) no longer experiences that problem with Fin2012...
> >>>
> >>> ... I'd really love to hear from them!
> >>>
> >>> Like Christopher and Robert, I was badly burned by the 9-key bug when
> it
> >> was first introduced and quickly adopted workarounds so that I could
> avoid
> >> the 9 key entirely.
> >>>
> >>> Once bitten, twice shy, so I've always been incredibly reluctant to go
> >> back to my old habits and see if the problem has been fixed. But the
> >> workarounds *are* a pain, so like Robert, I am curious whether anyone
> else
> >> in a similar situation can report back one way or the other.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>> - DJA
> >>> -----
> >>> WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Oct 12, 2012, at 8:32 PM, Chuck Israels <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I too, am puzzled.  It seems to work for me.
> >>>>
> >>>> Chuck
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Oct 12, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Steve Parker <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> But I never hit the 9 key any more. It's broken beyond use.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Don't understand this? I hit it hundreds of times a day on F2011.
> >>>>> Never had a problem.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Steve P.
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