For my acappella group, there’s a tenor lead that I wrote in the bass clef that’s up 8… The playback sound from Halion is trumpet, and it doesn’t play up the octave. In order to export an mp3 of all the parts with the lead up the octave, I manually raised that staff up an octave (easy to do), but st…

Quick 'n dirty solution. Select all your tenor lead. Add an 8ve line. Do your audio export. Delete the 8ve line. Alternative, you could transpose the Trumpet up and octave in Halion SE.

There is a global setting for this, I believe it’s in Notation options.

See here: Respecting/Ignoring clef octave indicators Traditionally, clef octave indicators were used as a reminder of transposing instruments; however, in more recent music, some composers use clef octave indicators as an alternative to octave lines for extended passages. You can chang…

Hi Daniel - Thanks for the response. But I may have described my problem inaccurately because the solution doesn’t work. (We are an acappella doo-wop group.) Here’s what I want to achieve for the tenor lead (the song is Papa Oom Mow Mow). His lowest note is E one ledger line below the staff, and h…

Try creating a new Piccolo instrument - rename it, change the clef, move your music onto this stave - This will automatically sound 1 octave higher than the written pitch. Make sure ‘Show note colours out of range’ is off!

That won’t work. After inserting the Octave line, one needs to transpose everything by an octave still. What’s wrong with using an 8va-Clef with the Notation Option, @AnnieK ? Everything is shifted down an octave, so just shift it up again? Then it looks like a normal treble clef, but the 8 indicat…

[image] klafkid: That won’t work. After inserting the Octave line, one needs to transpose everything by an octave still. You’re right of course - I forgot that Dorico adjusts. My initial thought was select notes. Shift-I 8… Should have gone with that! Underlying my approach is that for audio,…

Thanks for the interesting suggestions, everyone. I’ll play around with this for the next couple of days.

Don’t forget that you can change the Octave Shift of any given clef in the Properties panel.

Janus gave me a lead that worked! So satisfying. (some of the others may have worked as well, but I stopped there). Here’s how I got the tenor lead trumpet sound to permanently play up an octave from what’s written for that song. The bass clef up 8 is still in the sheet music so the singer knows to …

The alternative worked once I figured out how to do it. Thanks, Janus!

How to get bass clef up 8 to play back up the octave?

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Mark_Johnson September 20, 2024, 8:12pm 14

Welcome to the forum, Martine! Allow me to quote myself from 2016: