On 14 Jul 2002, at 22:24, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 06:59 PM 7/14/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote:
The GM specification has patch 46 for pizzicato strings. I see nothing
defective or inadequate in the default interpretation for typing pizz
into the scoring being a switch to that
At 10:53 PM 7/13/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 13 Jul 2002, at 10:27, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 10:04 AM 7/12/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote:
I'm no MIDI whiz, and have never worked with an expensive string
module, so I've never seen a synthesizer that had distinct violin,
At 6:59 AM 07/13/02, Philip Aker wrote:
[...] I reckon it would take about 3 months
casual examination of Alpha to attain the kind of overview
needed to see the cross-over potential to Finale Expression
MetaTools. [...]
Honestly, I'm not even sure what you're talking about here, but it sounds
At 12:26 PM 07/13/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
You use the cursor down key to scroll further in the list. This is how it
works in my version of Internet Explorer (Mac).
Oh, OK. If the down arrow is enabled then that's fine. In a lot of name
windows I've encountered (eg, any font selection
On Sunday, July 14, 2002, at 05:55 AM, Mark D. Lew wrote:
[...] I reckon it would take about 3 months casual examination
of Alpha to attain the kind of overview needed to see the
cross-over potential to Finale Expression MetaTools. [...]
Honestly, I'm not even sure what you're talking
At 06:59 PM 7/14/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote:
The GM specification has patch 46 for pizzicato strings. I see nothing
defective or inadequate in the default interpretation for typing pizz
into the scoring being a switch to that patch.
It's a step backwards, a dumb-down. Now is the time to
On 13.07.2002 8:06 Uhr, Mark D. Lew wrote
Something else I don't think we've mentioned yet is that it's quite likely
that a comprehensive list of expressions will have more than one with the
same text (eg, different typestyle, different playback, etc.). With just
type-in-score keyed off the
At 10:11 AM 07/13/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
[answering me]
Something else I don't think we've mentioned yet is that it's quite likely
that a comprehensive list of expressions will have more than one with the
same text (eg, different typestyle, different playback, etc.). With just
On 13.07.2002 8:06 Uhr, Mark D. Lew wrote
As I mentioned, type-in-score isn't a priority for me anyway. I'm more
interested in expanding metatools. How about two-letter metatools? How
about a window that lets me edit my metatool assignments more efficiently?
Of course, if you expand
On 13.07.2002 12:27 Uhr, Mark D. Lew wrote
With just type in score? I confess my ignorance. How? It seems to me you
need the mouse to get at the bottom ones.
Yes, I have used a browser with auto-complete, but I can't recall ever
having a list with two identical items on it. What happens
Mark D. Lew wrote:
At 10:11 AM 07/13/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
[answering me]
Something else I don't think we've mentioned yet is that it's quite likely
that a comprehensive list of expressions will have more than one with the
same text (eg, different typestyle, different playback,
At 12:26 PM 7/13/02 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 13.07.2002 12:27 Uhr, Mark D. Lew wrote
Yes, I have used a browser with auto-complete, but I can't recall ever
having a list with two identical items on it. What happens when you get to
the end of the name and both items are still there?
On Friday, July 12, 2002, at 05:01 AM, Mark D. Lew wrote:
All right, maybe now is a good time for a thorough discussion
of the whole system of expression metatools.
I've see a wide variety of complaints and requests about
expressions in this discussion, and it seems to me that
On Friday, July 12, 2002, at 07:04 AM, David W. Fenton wrote:
I'm no MIDI whiz, and have never worked with an expensive
string module, so I've never seen a synthesizer that had
distinct violin, viola and cello pizzicato patches. General
MIDI doesn't have them, it has only the one
At 10:04 AM 7/12/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote:
I'm no MIDI whiz, and have never worked with an expensive string
module, so I've never seen a synthesizer that had distinct violin,
viola and cello pizzicato patches. General MIDI doesn't have them, it
has only the one orchestral pizzicato
On 12 Jul 2002, at 13:38, Mark D. Lew wrote:
At 9:46 AM 07/12/02, David W. Fenton wrote:
[...] I also think the display only attribute should be one of
things you could override on individual expressions. I still think an
expression should be definable as display only, but it would be nice
[If I've remember the address right, this is cc to Coda tech support. Those
who use reply to all might want to remove them from any replies.]
At 11:18 PM 07/09/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
BTW, I would guess that now is a good time to send in feature requests to
Coda, perhaps the feature set for
Awesome post Mark,
Easily the longest on topic post ever made to this list since
I've been on it. I will have to consider it over the weekend.
Best regards,
Philip
On Friday, July 12, 2002, at 05:01 AM, Mark D. Lew wrote:
[If I've remember the address right, this is cc to Coda tech
Having read a lot of posts on this now, I feel a lot of people just confuse
UI questions with technical stuff. I don't see why much of Finale's storing
and handling of expressions and metatools has to be changed at all, instead
I would suggest that a lot of improvement could be implemented by
At 4:47 PM 07/12/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Having read a lot of posts on this now, I feel a lot of people just confuse
UI questions with technical stuff. I don't see why much of Finale's storing
and handling of expressions and metatools has to be changed at all, instead
I would suggest that a
At 1:38 PM -0800 7/12/02, Mark D. Lew wrote:
Anyway, what happens to expressions that are in a music font? If I've got
an expression which is the pedal marking, it's going to show up on the list
under opt-shift-8?? That's crazy. I want to list it as something like
Ped. Users who are less
On 12.07.2002 23:38 Uhr, Mark D. Lew wrote
Maybe I'm misunderstanding again, but it sounds like one thing where you
and I differ is that I want every item on the list (whether it's the
expression itself or the expression *assignment*, which I was equating with
metatools) to be keyed off the
On 12.07.2002 23:38 Uhr, Mark D. Lew wrote
Anyway, what happens to expressions that are in a music font? If I've got
an expression which is the pedal marking, it's going to show up on the list
under opt-shift-8?? That's crazy. I want to list it as something like
Ped. Users who are less
At 5:45 PM 07/12/02, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
Yes, this has been an issue for Jazzfont users who want to type
chords into score. The nicely stacked 7(#11b13#9) chord suffix shows
up as a single character, and I am darned if I can remember which one
it is! THere are 80 or so pre-aligned stacks
At 11:51 PM 07/12/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
I think we have to be realistic here: I doubt very much that Coda is going
to change the way expressions work in such a fundamental way that they are
going to give expressions names that are separate from the actual text. I
don't object to the
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