Transposing the Chord Track

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A kludgy workaround to the problem

I had a Chord Track with a zillion chords in it that I really needed to transpose from Am to Em. Of course it ended being one that wouldn’t transpose at all. Not wanting to manually change a zillion chords one at a time (which would take slightly less than eternity :astonished: ) I figured out a rather ugly but fairly simple way do it.

  1. Create a new Instrument or MIDI track.
  2. Select this new track
  3. In the menu “Project/Chord Track” run “Chords to MIDI” to create a new MIDI Part with your chords in it.
  4. In the track’s Inspector Chord Track tab, disable Follow Chord Track which was automatically enabled in step 3.
  5. Open this new MIDI Part in the Key Editor, ctrl-A to select all the notes and move them to be in the desired key.
  6. Delete all the chords in the Chord Track.
  7. With the MIDI Part selected, in the menu “Project/Chord Track” run “Make Chords”.
  8. The transposed chords should now be in the Chord Track.

You might want to save the project under another name before doing this, just in case.