triple flats??

Dorico
1

I imported some MIDI but forgot to assign a proper key until afterwards. After doing so, I invoked the key command to enharmonically change the spelling globally and while it “mostly” worked, I was just curious about the following:
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I don’t recall every seeing a “triple flat” before (but correct me if I’m wrong!) Is this just the product of some sort of strange algorithm interpretation? If so, I was just curious if Dorico was working on providing evem more useable results right from the start when enharmonically re-spelling notes globally to avoid things like triple flats (as good as it generally does already work, of course)…
Best!

  • D.D.
2

Dorico does indeed support accidentals up to triple sharp and down to triple flat. They’re obviously unusual, but they certainly can occur.

3

But why would Dorico interpret a simple MIDI pitch as a triple flat? Why not display Bbbb as simply Ab? MIDI doesn’t convey enharmonic information for pitches, does it?

4

Dorico wouldn’t ordinarily do so, but D.D. used the “respell using note above” command on the whole flow.