[Denemo-devel] Initial Clef - Transposing: How do I ... / Why does Denemo...

[Nils Gey]

Hello,

today I wrote a piece for mens choir. 2 tenors, 2 basses. After finishing the 
two Tenors I noticed that I used the normal treble/violin clef instead of the 
octava bassa, which is used for tenor-voices normally. So everything looked 
fine, except the little "8" in the clef was missing, and it sounded one octave 
to high in the sound output of Denemo.

"No problem" I thought and changed the initial clef to octava bassa. But Denemo 
now shifts all notes up one octave so it sounds the same as before, which is 
the opposite of what I wanted and expected. 

Why does Denemo transpose this automatically? Me, the composer, is responsible 
in which clef I put noteheads on the lines. If I want to change from treble to 
bass clef but want the noteheads to stay on the same lines its not possible 
atm, I think.

So how do I do that? Changing clef and keep/restore the orginal positions of 
the noteheads? 
Is there a way to tranpose a complete staff/voice? Actually not transposing but 
shifting. Or my feature-wish to shift a selection up and down. Or change the 
behaviour that the clef is not related to the position of the noteheads at all 
to the moment where you want to hear a sound. So if I change the clef the notes 
stay on their position but have a different meaning. (This is what I would 
prefer).

I know its feature freeze but I wanted to write this down.

Nils