Howdy HB,

The instrument name doesn't automatically come up for an instrument sound change because some folks don't want text to show up on the score (it's too cluttered looking). It also doesn't automatically change if you've already got an existing name in the box and you're changing the instrument sound. Some folks prefer to use their own designations for a staff rather than a particular instrument name, because if they then use a sound change, the instrument name changes as well.

For example, perhaps a violin passage will include a legato passage that uses a "slow strings" instrument, then a solo passage that uses a particular "Stradavari solo" (if they have a sound engine), then a pizzicato section using the instrument "Pizzicato violin". They want to keep the staff name just "violin 1", rather than having it change every time they try out or change an instrument.

Setting up a new staff should always have the instrument name entered in the name field by default, until you manually type in a different name.

So that's the current theory Is that how you observed it to work? And even more importantly, do you have any suggestions for improving how it behaves? We're always interested in improvement suggestions

ttfn,
Sherry