Hi Ralph, >> 1. I use Frescobaldi. > > Wow. I missed this somehow. I can see why you use absolute values > exclusively, Kieren. I'm almost exclusively transcribing and transposing > fiddle tunes. I do a lot of entry from sheet music, and do a lot of > proofreading, then transposing. Not terribly complicated, but valuable to me. > Relative entry works much better for me than absolute entry. I can input the > tune in treble clef, proofread it, and transpose to alto clef with fewer than > 10 keystrokes.
Have you tried Frescobaldi and MIDI entry? I do a lot of transcriptions and transpositions as well — usually for musical theatre pit musicians (e.g., multi-instrumental** wind players) — and I find it really easy to play the [absolute] part in from the original (usually transposed!) part, proofread, and then use Frescobaldi’s transposition tool to change the code to concert pitch for all work going forward. I’m not here to tell you that you *need* to change your workflow — it sounds like you’ve got one that really works well for you, which is great! I just want to make sure that anyone reading this thread in the future knows that transcribing and transposing can also be done really easily in absolute mode. Cheers, Kieren. ** Lilypond still doesn’t really handle multi-instrumental parts very well, but that’s an issue for a whole separate thread. ;) ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his) ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: kie...@kierenmacmillan.info