Change root key in Dorico?

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Hi Dorico Forum,
I changed the root key for my project in Cubase to match the VSL Synchron player, using the Project Root Key in the Cubase toolbar (see attached JPG). Is there a way to do this in Dorico? You can see the difference in octaves in the attached screen shots of the Key Editor in both apps. Thanks.
Zaffer
P.S. This forum has been very helpful to me in setting up Dorico. Thanks!

Cubase root key
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Cubase root key_key view
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Dorico root key key view
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Is the point of changing the root key in Cubase that it changes the colours of the notes in the piano roll in some way? If so, there’s no analogous feature in Dorico at the moment.

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Hi Daniel,
The point is that when you’re working in Cubase in Key Editor view (especially with keyswitches), C4 in Cubase is C3 in VSL Synchron player, so you have to do a mental exercise and put your C4 note on C3 to make it work in Synchron Player. I love it that in Cubase I can change the root key from “C” to “-” (one octave down) and then the octave numbers match between the two programs. I was hoping Dorico would have something like that, sorry to hear it doesn’t. Thanks.
Zaffer

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I am confused by your reference to VSL Synchron.

Dorico has extensive tools to transpose all or part of your score to other keys or octaves.

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Thanks Janus, I’ll look into that.
Zaffer

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There is a global setting for this in Preferences > General. You can’t do this on a Project by Project basis.

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Found it! Thanks Craig.
Zaffer

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I did some researce on the placement of middle C in various software programs – while it’s always the same pitch, some programs (Cubase) have it at C3 while others (Dorico) have it at C4. Unfortunately you can’t change the placement of middle C in Cubase, but you can change it in Dorico and in the VSL Synchron player. Here’s a quote from a 2012 Vienna Symphonic Library forum that explains it fairly well (link below).

MIddle C is always about 261Hz, so middle C is always middle C what ever keyboard or software play it (it is offically MIDI note number 60), but as to what middle is called is not so standard.
I believe the most “correct” official name for middle C is C4, as used by VSL and Sibelius etc but Cubase calls it C3, but even Wavelab although defaults to C3 can be changed to display C4. If only Cubase had the same preferences option to rename Middle to C4 then life would be so much simpler. (I seem to recall in the past, Logic used to be able to change this as well) I believe Sonar uses C5 for middle C ! (Wavelab has a C5 option as well).
https://forum.vsl.co.at/topic/31941/middle-c
Zaffer
P.S. I was mistaken about the Project Root Key drop down menu in Cubase, that has nothing to do with the placement of middle C.