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Melody octave is neither predictable nor clearly displayed

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It doesn’t seem to be predictable what octave melody notes will be played in - the same note on the piano roll comes out at different octaves from section to section. Plus the notes are not labelled for octave. Finally, changing key for a whole project can cause whole sections of melody to move to a different octave relative to other sections.

  1. Is there some way to force the pitch of melody notes to be relative to some fixed reference, rather than apparently randomly assigning them an octave?
  2. Is there some way to unambiguously see what octave a note will play back at? (e.g. this C is C3, this other C is C4?)
  3. Is there a way to make a key change transpose the project, preserving the relative pitches of melody notes across sections, rather than some melodies jumping to a different octave?

Thanks

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