LOVE the new Chord Symbol editing features. How can I delete a chord from the List of customized Symbols, or change whether or not it applies to all roots? Seems like once I’ve entered it, I can’t delete it or make it apply to all roots
The one at the bottom of the left side panel.
Jesper
Got it. How can I turn on “Apply to All Roots”?
Also, in Engrave mode, right click > Chord Symbols and Diagrams > Chord Symbol Appearance… evokes this dialog- why is it different?
There are a few weird behaviors, but I’m figuring it out, thanks. Any Idea why sometimes I can apply to all roots and sometimes not?
Making a change to a chord symbol in Engrave makes a change that only affects that one individual symbol. Changing that C13(#11) only affects that one particular C13(#11), not other identical chords in your score.
1 Like
Makes sense. Would be a nice touch if you could have an option from there to change it for everywhere. Still can’t figure out what determines whether or not you can make a custom symbol apply to all roots
Thank you so much for your help!
There is! Promote Single Override then Apply to All Roots. Gif below:
4 Likes
Thanks, but it doesn’t work consistently for me, and you have to leave the dialog, access the other dialog from the menu… it’s a little bit clunky…. why not just use the same dialogue where you can choose whether it’s a local or a global edit to the symbol? I guess it’s good we can do it from either write mode or edit mode, but lack of consistent behavior is puzzling.
I’m also having trouble editing chord symbols with an alternate bass… I edit the chord symbol, OK the edit, and the slash and alternate bass symbol have disappeared, It also seems you can’t have a symbol with an alternate bass apply to all roots. It’s an odd design choice to have symbols linked to a particular root, seems like by default it should apply to every root and allow us to make a kerning tweak for a particular root/accidental/slash/alternate bass…
Apparently “custom” symbols are controlled by the Library settings- if I have it set to not use parentheses for single alterations (“7 b9” vs “7(b9)”), parentheses in the custom symbol are ignored. I would think a better choice would be to have your custom symbols always override library settings.
Gradually getting to understand the idiosyncrasies though…