Help! Solo Bass tunings F# B E A

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I am preparing a new orchestration of Koussevitzky's Bass Concerto. The solo contrabass part uses solo tunings (F#-B-E-A). It is a transposing bass in D. The orchestra reads in F# minor; however, the solo bass part reads in e minor, but sounds a step higher in F# minor (sounding like the orchestra). Solo bass tuning is not that uncommon, yet I can't seem to find a transposing string bass instrument using solo tuning in the Sibelius Sound Set. There are work arounds, but it would be so much easier if I could just select "Contrabass (solo tunings F#-B-E-A)" from the list of Sibelius Sound Set Instruments. Heck, they have Classical Guitars with multiple solo tunings in the list, what about Solo Contrabass? Any suggestions? If not I'll just have to print out a separate solo bass part and transpose it down to e minor for the soloist to read, and not have that included in the score and use actual pitch in normal tuning in the score, and solo tuning only in the extracted part).

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The best thing to do is to create yourself a new instrument definition based on one of the existing Sibelius instruments.

Philip Rothman has described how to do it here: www.sibeliusblog.com/tips/all-keyed-up-keyless-instruments-in-a-keyed-score/

That way, you can have a part that looks right, sounds right and even obeys the "transposed score" button