Am trying to become more familiar with ‘A2 Transpose’ within ‘Melodist’. My understanding is that it will transpose the second ‘A’ section of ‘AABA’ song form. However, despite being switched on by default, it hasn’t ever seemed to have done anything.

Have checked ‘Transpose’ settings in ‘Options’ but nothing there makes any obvious difference.

BIAB Manual states:

A2 transpose: In songs with an AABA form, it is common for the second “a” section to be transposed. For example, the first “a” section might be in the key of Eb, and the second would be transposed up to the key of Gb. Melodists store these settings, and some Melodists are set to transpose the A2 sections. If you don’t want to allow Melodists to transpose the form in this way, set the A2 transpose to none. If set to “section plus,” it will transpose the A2 section, and might transpose 2 bars early or 2 bars late. The song will only be transposed if the particular Melodist is set to transpose the section.

I’m not clear what is meant by ‘Melodists’ – is it the melodies available in Melodist, or something else? If it does refer to these melodies is there any way of knowing which ones are set to carry out transposition, or if they can be edited to do this?

Can anyone shine some light on this please? Am quite happy to accept, though, that it may well be a case of ‘pilot error’!