Fretted Instrument Tunings

Dorico
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Usually I include a Baritone Ukulele in my ensemble arrangements, tuned to D3, G3, B3, E4, and with a treble-down-8 clef. Dorico doesn’t list a Bari Uke; in a previous piece Dorico substituted a standard Colombian tiple (spelled “Columbian”). I opened a new file from a template created in Dorico 4, and the Bari Uke’s “Compatible preset tunings” had changed from the tiple to “4 Strings: D3, G3, B3, E4 (project)”; although the tiple and other instruments were listed in the drop-down menu, I was unable to switch to the tiple.
What the instrument is named is not important: the big bugaboo is that the notes in the new file don’t play an octave lower with the treble-down-8 clef, but like a regular treble clef. How can I fix the sound? I checked the settings in Play mode, and they look like the template’s instrument sounds.

One more question: Is there somewhere a list of all the “standard” tunings for Dorico’s fretted instruments? I do not know many of the instruments…and I realize that standard in one region or musical format may be different in another, (there are at least five tunings for the ukulele).

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There’s an option on the Clefs page of Notation Options to determine whether or not clefs with octave transposition reminders should take effect in playback.

I’m afraid we haven’t produced a list of all of the tunings we’ve defined, but hopefully they’re reasonably easy to work out from their names – I don’t think we’ve done anything particularly exotic.

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Thanks, Daniel; I hadn’t seen the Clef transposition option, and have now set treble-down-8 to “down” as the default.

As to instrument tunings, “standard” is not descriptive. For the ukulele, as an example, Ukulele GCEA would be clearer. I long for the day when Ukulele Baritone DGBE is added to the list.