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Title: Auditing accidentals
Post by: andrew Shep on 2006-07-08 01:53 PM
When editing imported MIDI files to make performing scores, it is sometimes necessary to impose a new key signature (without transposing notes).  An example would be a piece of music with no key signature (C major), which indicates A's as A#.  Probably these should have been notated as Bflat and the correct solution would be to place a key signature of F major at the beginning and use "Audit Enharmonics" to remove the spurious sharps.  A problem arises however if any un-flattened B's were present since (accidentals in the key of F) now become unintentionally flattened.

Maybe I am missing something, but if not, a User Script to locate and apply natural signs to all such notes would seem to be the answer.  Wish I were better at PHP!

Anyone got any better ideas?

Andrew Shepperd
Title: Re: Auditing accidentals
Post by: Lawrie Pardy on 2006-07-08 02:32 PM
G'dy Andrew,
if you perform a |Tools|Force Accidentals| first, apply the new key signature and then

ya get what ya lookin' for.
Title: Re: Auditing accidentals
Post by: andrew Shep on 2006-07-08 03:26 PM
Wonderful!  Thanks v. much Lawrie