Re: ambitus "detective"

[Janek Warchoł]

2012/1/3 Stefan Thomas <address@hidden>:
> Dear community,
> I have to make an arrangement for string ensemble  of a piece originally
> written for saxophones.
> Unfortunately not all instruments have the same ambitus (e.g. the alto sax
> goes lower the the 2nd violin).
> With the ambitus engraver it's very simple to find out, if an instruments
> matches the ambitus of another.
> But: is it possible to find very quickly that point in the score, where a
> desired Ambitus is exceeded?

I don't know any existing function that does this, but it certainly
could be done.

An idea comes to my mind: you can try coloring notes depending on
their pitch (see http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=572).  You can
try modifying that snippet to create a function that would paint in
red all notes outside of a given range.

hope this helps,
Janek