Status bar
I am arranging a violin/piano sonata for chamber orchestra that contains 2 transposing instruments, clarinet in A and horn in E.
When I enter notes for these instruments the status bar does not show the correct pitch but rather what the note would be in treble clef. The entries sound correct but the status bar is not.
Can I adjust the status bar to show the correct pitch?
Thanks for your help.
Keith Lawrence
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It seems to show the pitch you're viewing to me. For example the first note in the A clarinet part (m9 b2.5) shows D4 in the status bar, and that is also the note I'm seeing on the staff.
If I toggle on concert pitch, both the status bar and the notation change to reflect that and now correctly show B3 as the note
In reply to It seems to show the pitch… by jeetee
First note in m9, A clarinet is a B3, the while status bar shows 'D' (when concert pitch is off). This is the problem that I see. Status bar should show B3 no matter whether concert pitch is on or off, it seems to me.
Am I missing something here.
Thanks.
KL
In reply to First note in m9, A… by guarnerius4me
No, status bar shows the note that is actually shown on the score. So if the score shows a D, so will the status bar.
In reply to No, status bar shows the… by Marc Sabatella
Are you saying, then, that the status bar always shows the written note not the sounding pitch?
If so, is there any way to adjust the status bar to make it show the sounding pitch for transposing instruments?
I just would like to have it that way to serve as a check to make sure that I am transposing correctly.
Thanks for your help and all the work you have done to create and keep this open source program going.
KL
In reply to Are you saying, then, that… by guarnerius4me
It has been discussed to show both in the status bar. I don't find it currently though
In reply to Are you saying, then, that… by guarnerius4me
Indeed, it's been discussed, probably will happen eventually. Meanwhile, I don't understand what you mean about making sure you are transposing correctly - you shouldn't be transposing at all. MuseScore can do this for you, just view in the mode you want. Am I missing something here?
In reply to Indeed, it's been discussed,… by Marc Sabatella
I was just wanted practise in transposing. I'm now using 'concert pitch' for convenience and speed.
In reply to Are you saying, then, that… by guarnerius4me
How does this look?
(Marc, could you please tell me if the “rightwards arrow” character, U+2192, is handled in a reasonable manner by screen readers?)
In reply to How does this look? [inline… by Spire42
Looks good to me. Extra points if the notenames are getting translated (there's an issue for that)
In reply to Looks good to me. Extra… by Jojo-Schmitz
I'm just using the existing function for converting a note pitch to a pitch name (
tpc2name()), so if it wasn't getting translated before, it isn't now.Could you please point me to the issue in question?
Edit: Found it. Issue #271636: Note names not translated in status bar and selection dialog box.
In reply to I'm just using the existing… by Spire42
Yep, that's the one
In reply to How does this look? [inline… by Spire42
There are lots of different screen readers and different punctuation settings, so I wouldn't want to rely on what any one of them might happen to default to. To me, just looking at it, the arrow means nothing, I'd rather it just say "D4 (B3 concert)". Or else have a preference to control this: some blind users with perfect pitch have mentioned they would prefer only concert pitch to be displayed.
BTW, this is not the literal text read by the screen reader; we build that separately. So you'd want to address both.
In reply to There are lots of different… by Marc Sabatella
“D4 (B3 concert)” is a little verbose for my liking, but I think I can live with it. Putting actual text in there does mean we're going to need it to be translated, but I guess that's fine. I think implementing a preference for it would be overkill, at least for a first pass.
BTW, this is not the literal text read by the screen reader; we build that separately. So you'd want to address both.
Happily, all of the accessibility-related functions already call the function I'm modifying (to build that part of the string), so I think that should all work.
Filed as issue #306370: Status bar should display playback pitch of selected note.
PR #6168.