Hallo.
I have a problem in Finale with changing key signatures. There
are two basic options in Finale for this - to cancel the old key
signature (partially or entirely) with naturals before inserting the new
one, or just inserting the new one.
I always use the former option for this - the older, traditional
method - but Finale usually doesn't do this correctly, and I'm wondering
if this is a known problem and if there is anything I can do about it.
As I'm sure most here would know, you cancel the entire old key
signature if you go from sharps to flats or vice-versa; but if you go
from sharps to a smaller sharp signature or flats to a smaller flat
signature, you cancel only the flats or sharps in the old signature that
won't be in the new one. And if you are going from a smaller to a
larger signature of the same type, then, and only then, do you have no
naturals at all.
However, most of the time, I find that Finale puts in all the
naturals for the entire old signature regardless - sometimes even in the
last case I mentioned where none are needed.
To make things more complicated, it sometimes seems to do things
correctly, which is why I just said "most of the time". That seems to
suggest that there are unknown, invisible circumstances in each
situation that govern whether this problem occurs or not. In a case
where it does it incorrectly, though, no amount of tweaking or re-doing
it seems to make any difference.
This seems such an obvious problem that I would find it incredible
that it has not, over all the years Finale has being going, been noticed
and corrected.
(To forestall anyone asking, yes, I have tried different settings
in the menu item that controls key signature changes. It does change
some behaviour, but not in a way that is correct according to the normal
rules for changing key signatures, as I described above.)
Is this a known problem, and is there a remedy, please? Or am I
possibly doing something wrong that I just don't know about?
Thank you.
Michael Edwards.
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