I know it’s not possible to have your cake and eat it, too, but why isn’t it possible to have both “view note colours” and “notes out of range” checked? Why do they cancel each other out? Isn’t it possible to reserve one colour to specify “out of range” – or two colours, one for “difficult” and another for “impossible”?
Because voice colors are assigned mathematically by rule given the order in which they are introduced, so the formula does not skip over colors to allow for out-of-range notes.
And since, after a certain number of voices, some voices may be similar shades of the same basic hue, I think you would find the result confusing even if the Team did program it in.
I would welcome this “noise” – sometimes I’m arranging something complicated and pasting voices from a piano reduction and that brings up all sorts of voice / stem issues - so I keep “note colours” checked – but then I end up with a note out of range for the oboe that I forget about. This happens more often than I’d like, not because I don’t know the range of an instrument but more because of deadlines.
Maybe “notes out of range” can be more like a “highlight” rather than a note colour? what would you think of that?
sure, that I’ve done - but it still doesn’t solve for the desire to have both note colours and out of range notes shown at the same time.
methinks “out of range” should be on by default? who wants to write out-of-range notes for an instrumentalist – that is unless they’re using some sort of alternate tuning or other devices to expand the range?
Some do and some don’t. You may already know your ranges but students and composers who didn’t study classical orchestration don’t. The option is there already – Dorico knows how to do it. It’s just a matter of making it more helpful. From what Daniel says, it can be done - it’s just they thought it’d be visually overwhelming - and maybe it is to some people - but it’s also very helpful. Some people find Birtwistle’s music visually overwhelming, others find it liberating. I’m not going to judge.
Please enable the feature – you don’t have to use it, but I sure will.
Oh that doesn’t impact what I need - I just want to have the option of checking “Note Colours” and “Notes out of range” without one canceling the other out.
Maybe that’s a slightly different subject but is it possible to turn of the coloured out of range notes by default. Every time I start a new document I get annoyed by it as I alway tend to write in extreme range for instruments.