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I suppose it is just a personal preference, but I like to show keys in flats, instead of sharps. I was having to transpose a song this morning and was unable to display the flats. In other words, the key should have been Db and it insisted on showing C#. Even choosing flats in the transpose screen didn't take effect.
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Although not a great concern to me - I'm not a great fan of Chordpro - I do agree that I would rather see flats than sharps for most things.
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I run into this occasionally. Isn't the flats/sharps toggle supposed to control this?
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(10-31-2016, 07:15 PM)sciurius Wrote: I run into this occasionally. Isn't the flats/sharps toggle supposed to control this?
It used to do exactly that. But it didn't work for me on multiple songs yesterday.
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We had lengthy discussions about this feature and I was involved in many of them. Nevertheless it confused me again a while ago, so that I had to think about and search the forum how it is intended to work. This is what I found:
The "b" / "#" buttons only modify the base key when transposing is applied. When "b" is selected, transposing a semi-tone up from the key of C the result is Db, when "#" is selected it is C#.
The buttons do NOT influence the accidentals of individual chords within the song. Those are only depending on the base key: in "#"-keys like G, D, ... / Em, Bm ... the chords are displayed with #s, in "b"-keys like F, Bb, ... or Dm, Gm, ... the chords are displayed with bs.
For the key of C the decision was to use #s.
That's how it should work. Not perfect in some special cases, but usable.
When verifying my sentences above I noticed a small bug:
Slash chords like C/G are transposed correctly, including the bass tone after the slash. This is not the case if "0" is used instead of "dim" e.g. C0/F#. It seems that "0" is not regarded as part of a regular chord so that it interrupts chord detection and the following bass note is not transposed.
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Let me say this. The buttons used to change the flats to sharps and vice versa. It is no longer working for me.
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(11-02-2016, 10:14 PM)itsme Wrote: The buttons do NOT influence the accidentals of individual chords within the song.
I cannot see a reason why not. When you have a key with an accidental (e.g. Db or C#) it works like this. Why not also when there is no accidental?
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If you can send me a file that demonstrates the problem, I'll look into it right away.
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(11-03-2016, 02:54 AM)Zuberman Wrote: If you can send me a file that demonstrates the problem, I'll look into it right away.
I assume this is aimed at LD Jackson?
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I am at work now , but I will send you a file when I get home .
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How do you want me to send the file to yours?
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11-03-2016, 12:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-03-2016, 12:32 PM by Zubersoft.)
You can just email it to mike@zubersoft.com.
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(11-03-2016, 12:32 PM)Zuberman Wrote: You can just email it to mike@zubersoft.com.
Check your email. You should have one chordpro file waiting for you.
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I did receive the file, thanks for sending it. I'll look into the problem as soon as I can.
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Just responded to your email, but I imported the file (which has a starting key of C), changed the transpose dialog to use flats, and then transposed into Db. Every chord is shown as flat. Am I missing something?
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