I feel your pain on the bug reporting.

Because I essentially never touch my keypad, I never knew about the enter
key repitch technique. Very handy, that.

I'm not sure I understand why I would want no accis on a chromatic
transposing staff, but I'll bite. What's your technique?

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Christopher Smith <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> Chuck explained it better. Repitch an EXISTING chord in Speedy by holding
> down the new notes on the MIDI keyboard (when the Speedy cursor is on the
> chord) and hitting Enter.
>
> Yes, I am in 2012c. I tried to track it down briefly just now, but didn't
> get it to show. I do, however, often see it. I have spend so much time
> confirming bugs and finding exact procedures to get them to show and
> submitting them, only to be told, "Oh yeah, that's been noted and put on
> the list to fix already" and then nothing happens for years, if at all.
>
> If I ever find a procedure that absolutely shows the bug, I'll post it. On
> the other hand, I have a procedure for entering a passage on a
> chromatically transposing staff that will not allow an accidental to show
> at all. This works 100% of the time since 2008. Let me know if you want to
> see it.
>
> Christopher
>
>
> On Sat Oct 13, at SaturdayOct 13 9:50 AM, Robert Patterson wrote:
>
> > 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
> >>>>> -----
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> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 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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