A-NO-NE Music wrote:
I was wondering why, by default, Finale favors to flat while F# is
always sharp, not Gb. Why is it this way?
I do not use key signature. The music I write has too many different
key of the moment.
Last night, I was working on a piece starts with B Major, while the
bridge is Eb minor (not D# minor), and got frustrated. Not only the
need of [9] flip all the time, but more than that, MIDI chord entry
frustrated me since I had to go back to manual edit to change them all
one by one. Everything was fine on the bridge since it's a flat key.
I know I am missing some features in Finale to make my workflow easier,
but I even don't know what to look for in the manual. Any advice would
be appreciated.
Options/Enharmonic Spellings allows you to define how Finale will -- you
can select to use "default spellings" (whatever that means) or Favor
Sharps, Favor Flats, Use Spelling Tables, and then two options for
editing Major/Minor Spelling Tables or Modal/Chromatic Spelling Tables.
if you don't use key signatures, then Finale thinks you're in the key of
C, and is most likely using the Major/Minor Spelling Table, which shows
scale degree 4 being interpreted as sharp, which would account for the
F# that you are questioning.
Play around with editing those and see what happens.
--
David H. Bailey
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