Enharmonic changes
Is it possible to change all the flat notes in a large score to the equivalent sharp (enharmonic) notes - and/or vice-versa?
I suspect not, but it could be a useful feature. Maybe someone has made a plug-in.
However there is a way which will work some (most) of the time. Select the passage to change, Use the down arrow key to move it one semitone down, then use the up arrow key to move it back up one semitone. This should change flats to sharps. To change sharps to flats use the up arrow key first, then the down arrow key.
This method will work as long as the section to be modified doesn't include both flats and sharps. I don't know what it does about double sharps or double flats - I don't use those much!
It should work on very large selections - but then there might be a need to check for anomalies in the whole end result.
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In reply to J? by Jojo-Schmitz
¿Que?
In reply to ¿Que? by dave2020X
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/accidentals#respell-pitches
In reply to https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
Ah - thanks for this shortcut hint. I'll check it out.
In reply to https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
Ah - thanks for this shortcut hint. I'll check it out. It does things with double sharps and double flats too. Could get tricky with a lot of notes!
When I want to do this in a large area, I press the down arrow followed by the up arrow. This will assign all notes that it can to the key signature, then prefer sharps for all other notes with accidentals.
In reply to When I want to do this in a… by mike320
Thanks. I didn't think that it might be key signature aware. Interesting!
Presumably if you do up-arrow followed by down arrow it will prefer flats to all other notes with accidentals - useful for some keys maybe.
In reply to Thanks. I didn't think that… by dave2020X
indeed. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/note-input#keyboard-shortcuts
In reply to Thanks. I didn't think that… by dave2020X
It's especially useful if you have a key like B (5 sharps) and then copy something to an Alto Sax, which has 4 Flats in its key signature. And yes, up followed by down prefers flats.