Fixing a wrong transpose
I got a job fixing a transpose someone did wrong. The score SOUNDED right, but they had the wrong key signature to start with, and naturally a lot of enharmonic misspellings that made the score hell to read accidental-wise, and a large number of the intervals were really wonky. Now that I FIXED it, it suddenly strikes me that there might be some short cut or some kind of AI that can just do this, because that was not fun to change almost every G# to what it should have been (Ab in the key of Eb) Is there?
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There's a respell accidentals tool
Often, you can change sharps to flats just by using [UpArrow][DownArrow].
Posting the score (or a portion of it) before changes and stating what you want to happen might help people understand more.
In reply to Often, you can change sharps… by underquark
Thanks! That's what I ended up doing but I still had to sniff out each error and do the notes one at a time. The client wished to transpose a score up 1/2 step from F. That would be either Gb or F# of course but they somehow managed to end up with only 3 flats in the transpose no idea what they did. The score came to me with all the correct pitches and numerous enharmonic errors. It wasn't just the double flats. I explained that you often get double flats in Gb.... I'll try the plugin in 3.7 next time...
Try my plugin: https://musescore.org/en/project/enharmonics-replace-chosen-accidentals…
May not work in MU4.4. Workaround: use MU3.7 that reads both MU3 & MU4 files
(https://github.com/Jojo-Schmitz/MuseScore/wiki/)
In reply to Try my plugin: https:/… by elsewhere
thanks, too late for this time pressure gig but I'll get it for if she ever does that again. and well she might. And good to know there is a MuseScore 3.7 that reads 4.x files because some of my clients like to muck around and screw things up then hire me to fix everything and they mostly prefer vsn 3 whatever.