On 13.07.2002 2:28 Uhr, Richard Walker wrote > 1. Linkage between scores and extracted parts. If I update one, the other > should be updated automatically. Ideally, extracted parts could be viewed in > some sort of pop-up window from the main score--triple click an instrument > name and its part comes up for editing. > To be honest, I don't think we can expect anything like this in the next version of Finale. However, I think the ideal way to implement this would be to have parts _inside_ the score file. I can see a lot of problems with this. Perhaps, now that plugins can operate on several open documents there is scope for a clever plugin.
> 2. Intelligent chord explosion. Currently, if you want to voice sections > without switching from staff to staff, you have to create another staff, > input your chords, articulations, and dynamics, and then "explode" them onto > the real staves (or have I missed something?). I'd like to select a group of > staves (say, a sax section), play a chord, and automatically have the notes > divided up among the targets. > I don't do chords, so I can't comment. > 3. "Section views." In line with the chord explosion technique above (more > like carpet bombing really), I'd like a function that would toggle sections > between one or two concert staves and individual part staves: i.e., press a > key and the sax section collapses into two concert staves, press it again > and you get all five staves. I wonder how much people would like something like this. I, personally, have no use for such a function. > > 3.5. Voice crossings. Select two notes at the same position on different > staves, press a key, and they are exchanged for each other. Again, wouldn't help me. > > 4. Intelligent guitar parts. If you have a chord symbol and a slash rhythm, > you ought to hear a guitar playing it with no further effort on your part. > Granted, the voicings might need tweaking. Again, no use to me. > > 5. Reverse input. A lot of composition is deciding on target notes and > figuring out how to get there. Being able to input backwards makes more > sense sometimes. Not sure I quite understand how you want this to work. You can already _insert_ notes in speedy, but I guess that's not exactly what you want. I wouldn't really have much benefit from any backwards entry. > > 6. Shortcuts for common transpositions. Sibelius does this very well. > Shift-up arrow transposes up an octave, shift-down arrow goes down an > octave. Need a coupling in diatonic thirds? Press shift-3 (main keyboard). > Fourths? Press shift-4. Others have already commented that this already exists. > > 7. Idea notepads. Wouldn't it be nice to have someplace to store your main > theme, counter theme, ostinato patterns, riff or whatever, and then be able > to point and click them into parts? Point at the proper measure in a flute > part, select "main theme" and voila, it's there, with a rational guess made > as to the correct octave. Point again to put the counter theme in the > violas. Naturally, all of this should be fully editable after it is > inserted, and one should be able to select phrases, press a key and record > them into the notepad. I would not want any development time spent on this before some more important things have been fixed and included. > > 8. Editable mirrors. Maybe I want the same basic phrase, except for one or > two notes that need to be taken down an octave. Or maybe chord symbols need > to be added. Or maybe I only want to mirror the second layer. The mirror > should keep the link and also remember what is different, so that if the > original is changed, the mirror is updated intelligently. Now that's something I think is a good idea. > > 8.5 Automatic cues. Like above. I should be able to link cue notes to the > staves on which they appear, but also continue to be able to edit the target > staff. And I think this should be made part of mirrors, that automatically get transformed when parts are extracted. Cue notes still take a lot of time, even with the help of TGTools, and an intelligent mirror system could help a lot with this. I'll include this in my wishlist. > > 9. Preset mirrors. Before notes are ever input, you may know that you want > flutes and clarinets to double at a certain point. Why not be able to set > that up in advance? Since this would probably require very little change in the program it would be worth it, I guess. > > 10. Full AppleScript implementation. Not sure that would be much help. What I would suggest is some sort of universal plugin that allows scripting and access to all enigma data. > > 11. Menu or keyboard access to all functions. Things that can only be > clicked on are almost impossible to macro-ize. Yes. And customizable, please. Even now most keyboard shortcuts do not work on foreign keyboards, and even using ResEdit quite a lot of things cannot be changed properly for some non-standard implementation of keyboard use. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
