New Instrument Definition Bug

I have been attempting to create a new instrument - please don’t ask why - and I observed a strange behaviour.when trying to define the transposition on my iMac:


I have set middle C as C4 in the preferences. When a C4 is played, the sound needs to be an E ABOVE the written note (E4), not E3 which it insists on forcing.

Is this “correction” by design or is it a bug?

It certainly looks like a bug. I’ve tried to reproduce it on my own system, however, and so far I’ve been unable to. Can you reproduce this in a brand new project with a brand new instrument?

I’ve seen things like this happen for fretted instruments where it’s picking up transposition information from the string tuning dialog.

I am not at my computer at the moment @dspreadbury but it was a new instrument derived from the 7 string lute so it may be as @Craig_F suggested. I put in the string tuning and also tried without the tuning and both have the same error.

I will try in a new project when I get to my computer.l and let you know.

I tried opening the project on my Windows 11 machine and the same error was present when I tried to change the transposition.

When I created a new project and a new instrument based on the 7 string lute the transposition worked as expected.

I will not have access to my iMac for a week so I cannot confirm whether or not the error occurs in a new project.