I have two standard guitar instrument definitions for standard notation (no TAB): one standard tuning, the other with capo at the third fret. Again, no TAB, I just want to see what notes the player needs to play with the capo on. Standard instrument is standard Classical guitar instrument that comes stock with Dorico (instrument.fretted.classical-guitar) and the capo one I created based on that starting point where I have written middle C3 sounds C2 and in transposing score, C3 sounds Eb2 (minor third up which is what capo at the third fret creates). This is all very well, but strangely, the standard instrument definition is notating up an octave higher! I have included both concert pitch where you can easily see the octave displacement, as well as the transposed display. I have also attached the dorico file.
Thanks! That’s really weird because I thought that I would want the notation to respect the octave indicator, but perhaps the playback engines all peg middle C to C2 for guitar? I can’t say I understand how it works.
Notating octave-transposing instruments (e.g. Piccolo, Contrabassoon/Double Bass, Guitar/Tenor) can be confusing. In a music notation program besides WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) there is WYSHIWYG (what you hear is what you get). It’s possible that the transposition is performed in the expression map or on the VST level.
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