> Message: 25 > Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:59:11 +1000 > To: Finale List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Rocky Road <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Finale] Finale Notepad - Brilliant Move by Coda > > > I bought Finale for our High school's main recording computer DAW a > couple of years ago and it basically sat there, only used by myself > (as I slowly converted from the notating using Emagic's Logic). > > Then this year I woke up and made all my elective students (years > 9-12) download Finale Notepad for their home computers (don't > students love things for free). > > Well what a revolution. They are loving it and are handing in most > small assignments using it. With more involved compositions they are > bringing the files in to use the full version. > > On a recent year 10 assignment the one student who handwrote his > score was worried that I wouldn't accept it - that's how big the > takeup rate has been. > > Coda have hit the perfect balance of making the program limited but > yet still fully functional - much better than crippleware or a demo. > > Guess what notation package they all plan to buy after school? > > A real win-win situation for Coda and us. > > I wish I had done it earlier. > > David Stonestreet
I would second this. We introduced Finale Notepad to all students on their laptops from Years 6 to 12. It certainly is a revolution, particularly for those students at the initial stages of music learning who haven't yet learned to play an instrument. It makes teaching things like writing a melody above a set of chords so much easier, because they can play it back straight away and hear the difference. It also provides a great transition to the full version of Finale. I have had labs-full of girls in Year 7 (12 year olds) happily using the full version of Finale, which sort of puts paid to the "Finale is too difficult" argument. One thing that I'm going to try is to modify the Maestro Default File in Notepad because it doesn't display bar numbers as a default, and also I think that the page % is way too large. IIRC, the range of text expressions isn't too large either, and I don't think you can create any more apart from the text tool. It would also be nice if Coda could facilitate changing time signatures in the Notepad application, but you can't have everything I suppose. Matthew _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
