Enharmonic change tool to avoid double sharps- New feature request?

Dorico
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I often transpose passages. After transposition I often have a glut and double sharps and or double flats. We fix these ‘alt-minus’ or ‘alt-plus’ but only be sub selecting the notes which need to be pushed in the flat direction and those which should be pushed in the sharp direction. If I select everything it will add E#s and B#s (or C flats and F flats) or even double flats or sharps for those notes which were OK to start with.

What I want to do is select everything and get to the simplest neutral ‘piano keyboard’ representation in one hit. That is represent it spelt like this:

  • C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B
  • or this
  • C Df D Ef E F Gf G Af A Bf B

If this can be done today that’s great but I haven’t yet found a short cut to do it. Notice that this representation doesn’t include E#, B# F flat of C flat.

Much modern music and film music is written without key signatures. So getting quickly to this representation would be advantageous.

Before anyone mentions it it is obvious that E#, B# F flat of C flats (and double shops and flats) do have a musical role. But I’d rather start with one of the two neutral formats and then add those accidentals demanded by the musical sense.

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You can Select All, Filter all double sharp notes and Respell Using Note Name Above. Then Select All, Filter all double flat notes and Respell Using Note Name Below.

You can create shortcuts for Filter > All ## or All bb.

You can also use Transpose > Perfect Unison > Respell to avoid double & triple sharps and flats.

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Does this helps?

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The simplest method is as @charles_piano says.

Select all, then Transpose at the Unison with the option to avoid double/triple accidentals selected.

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Filter all double sharp notes

I initially thought this was entirely a problem of double sharps and flats. But actually the presence of E and B sharp and C flat and F flat’s is just as much a problem. Is there a filter that would select those?

I use a ‘stream deck’ so I could programme a very long sets of steps into a macro. But only if some filter could pick up all E and B sharps and then all C flat and F flats.

(Finale had a very complex scale representation system which might have done “the right thing”. But I freely admit I never understood it well enough to dare use it. )

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You can use Filter > Notes by Pitch

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Actually this in Note tools (Shift+I) might work

Map pitches (octave optional) [pitch] = [pitch] e.g. c4 = b3, d#5 = f#

I could load a long stream of equivalent pitches into my stream deck macro and then it would work each time. If I can get it to work I’ll post it here

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RE: [quote=“charles_piano, post:6, topic:1017117”]
You can use Filter > Notes by Pitch
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thank you that is a handy feature also. I’m sure one of these approaches will work. I’ll post the answer when I make it work

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With Shift+I, you can type in one shot something like b#=c, e#=f, fb=e, cb=b

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