On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 11:08 PM, Tim Thompson wrote:
Has anyone mentioned the non-transposing chord symbols? Let me explain:
Anyway, he does a lot of charts in Sibelius for the Jazz Ensemble, in which I play alto and co-direct with him. Whenever he has created a custom chord suffix, the letter name of the chord does not transpose in the extracted part. I always forget about the bug, and get really confused looking at a new chart until I remember and start scratching away at it with my pencil. He just keeps printing them out that way. (He's a good guy otherwise and a great teacher in the jazz and pop areas--so this is not really a big deal in the scheme of things, just a big, blatant, recurrent bug from a staunch Sibelius guy.)
To be fair, this is also a problem in Finale when selecting "chromatic" transposition (instead of key sig transposition) -- chord symbols transpose automatically if you are using key signatures, but not in keyless pieces. Since I never use key sigs in my own music, I have to always remember to manually transpose the chord symbols for transposing instruments. This is a long-standing bug in Finale (since Fin97 IIRC). I complain every time I upgrade and discover the bug isn't fixed -- which is invariably. Unfortunately, this is a really easy bug to forget about during all-night copying sessions, and I've brought my share of hastily-prepared charts to reading sessions and had the soloist play the first couple of bars in the wrong key. Usually, we both realize what's happened at the same time, and the soloist will quickly correct himself, but I really wish Coda would fix this bug. It would probably take about thirty seconds to do.
- Darcy
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