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A clear description of all the nonstandard key signatures would clarify a lot.

- only standard accidentals (flat, natural, sharp), or microtonal accidentals?

- standard diatonic scale pattern, or some sort of other (micro-chromatic) scale pattern?

Also, are the key signatures simultaneous (= vertically below each other, playing at the same time), or are they playing after each other (= horizontally after each other, like different movements)?

By The Way:

What version of Finale?

Windows or Mac?

The key signatures used only use standard accidentals and carry a standard diatonic scale pattern, and they occur after each-other. I am using Finale v. 26 on Mac.

Should it be useful, I have also attached images of the signatures being used thus far.

Jack Reeves,

I see no problems in the two nonstandard key signatures shown in your attached graphic.

Finale can do that.

In the dialog box Nonstandard Key Signature, click the button Next twice, to get to Linear Key Format 2 (since Linear Key Format 0 is “hardwired” as major, and Linear Key Format 1 is “hardwired” as minor).

For the following key signature, use Linear key Format 3 (not Linear Key Format 2 again!).

Not that it matters, but I wonder about the accidental order.

Why not the flat first, and then the sharp?

Is there a “demand” for a specific accidental order?

(Just a thought)

I'm sorry; I may not have been clear about the error at hand. The creation of the keys isn't the problem, in fact I took those screenshots from keys that I created in the score. It's just that for some reason, whenever I try to input the second of the two later in the score, the first key from before is changed to the second as well. It's as if I can only have one nonstandard key signature in a document (which I'm sure is not the case). As for the order of having the sharp placed prior to the flat, it's simply the convention which I was formerly made familiar with and prefer the visual aesthetic of. No particular reason outside of that.

Thankfully, I've found the solution to the conflict I was facing. I simply wasn't thinking to switch the value of the nonlinear key format. I believe I should be all good from this point on :)

Thank you for your contributions!