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8.3
Disable or Enable Automatic Transposing
Before you start Entering notes, consider how you want their pitches to appear on staves. By default, transposing
instruments, such as a trumpet, appear in a dierent key. For example, a “Bb” trumpet’s part appears in your notation sta
to be at a dierent pitch/key than keyboards and other “C” instruments, but sounds correctly in tune during Notion
playback.
This transposition is mandatory so live musicians reading your score will correctly play your composition the way you
intended. If you prefer to compose or arrange with automatic transposing disabled, then the pitches you see on the
notation sta will all be concert (exact) pitches for all instruments.
To disable or enable automatic transposing, go to the Menu bar and:
8 To keep the default setting (standard notation), ensure View > Transposed has a checkmark.
8 To display transposing instruments in the same key as other “C” instruments, click View > Concert Tuning so it
receives a checkmark.
8 To display transposing instruments in the same key as other “C” instruments and in the actual concert octave
(piccolo, for example, is written an octave lower than actual pitch), then click View > Concert Pitch so it receives a
checkmark.