Don’t get me wrong, I am loving dorico. Just systematically I mess up the order when transposing.
The first choice is “quality” and I always click that first. Then I realize that you need to click “interval” first because that changes the choices in the “quality” tab.
It’s not the end of the world, and I will learn eventually, but it seems counterintuitive to have these in this order.
Yeah, transposition is unnecessarily awkward and unintuitive. I’d rather just pick a key, whether it’s up or down and be done with it. The interval calculation option could still be there if people needed to approach it that way. This seems like it would be an easy addition, no? Maybe an option to transpose the entire flow at least until the next marked key change? The way Dorico is currently, sometimes I don’t get the chords to transpose, too, or I’m fiddling with the interval and quality tabs with confusion.
The transposition in Dorico is one of the few features I think Finale did better. Overall, I think Dorico is fantastic and wouldn’t go back to Finale if you paid me, but a few choices mystify me when Finale did it so well. I think my biggest gripe with Dorico vs Finale is why is Finale’s GUI so much snappier? When I’m working on a full orchestra arrangement, the time spent waiting to do simple edits adds up after a while in Dorico and I have a top of the line computer (14900 Intel i9, 32GB RAM and RTX 4090 video card and M.2 SSD Drives)
Doesn’t the interval calculator essentially do just what you want it to, even if it takes a few more clicks? If I want to transpose from Eb up to F, I can just put those pitches into the calculator and hit Apply, and Dorico turns that into up a major second.
I suspect the main reason is that Dorico does much more in the background to calculate things like collision avoidance, staff spacing, condensing, divisi, cues, etc. A lot of this had to be done by hand in Finale.
I actually never glanced at this interval calculator on the right. My bad. I will try it out.
I stand by what I said for the left hand side of the window!