Red text in score scanned and exported to Sibelius 6.

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maestrojeb
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Post by maestrojeb » Sun Sep 26, 2010 11:11 pm

How do I convert red text to black? It prints fine, but some displays in red.


Sebasian
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Post by Sebasian » Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:16 am

maestrojeb wrote:How do I convert red text to black?
It's red because Sibelius thinks it's out of range for the instrument. You can either edit the instrument ranges (but you'd have to do this for every instrument that shows the problem) or just change the colour settings with View > Note colors.

But make sure you know what the ranges of the instruments actually are if you turn off this warning. If you write for real people, or for many sampled sound libraries (as opposed to GM or similar synth devices) you might find these out-of-range notes can't be played.

Jeremy Hughes
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Post by Jeremy Hughes » Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:44 am

Red text (not red notes) will most likely be because Magnetic Layout is working and can't find a place to move the text so that it doesn't clash with something.

You can ignore it, choose not to display it (somewhere in the View menu), or Freeze Magnetic Layout positions (via the Layout menu) and thereby turn off ML.

Hope that helps

Jeremy
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maestrojeb
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Post by maestrojeb » Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:47 pm

Many thanks. Yes, it was text, not notes. I went to view, then clicked Magnetic Layout and Collision. That did it. :)

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