Regarding sharps/flats show on multi-instrument score

• Jan 12, 2021 - 05:01

I recently did a jazz big band score in E major. Most instruments are transposing instruments, like Eb Alto sax, Bb trumpet.

In this case, for an E major song, the piano is written in E major with 4 sharps. Bb trumpets are written in F# major with 6 sharps. However, Eb alto saxes are written in C# major with 7 sharps. I want to make it to Db major as 5 flats. Is that possible to let it show in 5 flats or add a feature to let it show 5 flats instead? Please see the picture to get my idea.

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• Jan 12, 2021 - 14:55

Easier method introduced in one of the last few releases is to right click the alto sax staff, choose staff/part properties and change the option in "Prefer sharps or flats..." near the bottom left to "Flats" in the dropdown. It's possible that if you have already entered all of the notes that every note will have an accidental at this point. Select all measures for that instrument and press up arrow followed by down arrow to make all of the unnecessary accidentals go away and necessary accidentals will be flats.

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