Hi! Long time user of the Finnish composer software who having purchased version 3 of Dorico during Covid haven’t got to grips with learning it until my recent upgrade to v5. These forums have helped me hugely up until now but I can’t find what I’m after (perhaps because it should be a feature request!).
I often have to import Eb Baritone Sax parts (in treble clef) to convert them to double bass parts (and other transpositions too).
I use Photoscore for this and rather than send to the other notation software, where the transposition is still a pain to deal with, I’ve saved as an xml to use Dorico this time.
Dorico has assumed it is a piano part and in concert pitch. I can change it to Bari Sax and could mess about with the key to create my new bass part but what I’d really love is a little toggle that allows you to switch what Dorico thinks is concert pitch to become the transposed pitch. Is this a feature that exists - or can be added?
Thanks in advance for your time. I’m loving Dorico now that I’ve got to grips with it - so much more intuitive!
I don’t think Janus’s advice is quite what you’re looking for, because if I interpret your post correctly, the issue is that you need to actually “un-transpose” the music, since it’s been imported from PhotoScore at transposed pitch, but the project is showing concert pitch, so the music is a major sixth lower than it should be.
There’s no built-in feature to take care of this for you, but if you select everything and go to Write > Transpose, you’ll see on the right-hand side the little interval calculator. Plug-in Eb in octave 3 and C in octave 4, and that should provide you with the right interval to transpose the music.
Another cool way to transpose stuff is to use the shift-i popover. Writing t-3m in the popover should transpose the selection a minor third down. t5P should transpose a perfect fifth up. t6M should transpose a major sixth up. I think you should get it now
I love how much stuff can be achieved with that popover alone!
Beware though: the Transpose… feature allows for key changes, shift-i does not take care of those (unless I missed something)
I would use shift-i to transpose a mistransposed instrument baked into a xml file that has multiple instruments, some transposing and other in C (I’ve been doing exactly that two weeks ago, with Photoscore ultimate…)
Laundry, not. But… It can deal with series, mirror pitches, cycle through patterns. It can transform melodies using modal shifts, etc… It is amazing. And it transposes and deals with intervals.
I forgot an important feature! It can correct pitches! Write c#=c and all c# in the selection are changed to c!
