Transposing octaves is the least of my concerns, and I can always do TAB in PowerTab.
2 Things that would make Finale super to me....an easy way to type in notes with the keyboard without the extra key shifts....I have carpal in both hands and bursitus in my left shoulder which acts up every November to March leaving me one handed during that time and the click on a note value and play the note on my keyboard, especially using my touchpad is extremely useful...even when I can move both arms. And....if Finale would allow you to add additional instruments liek Sibilius does, with the same steps to open a new document....I got tired of fighting with adding new staves and instruments to Finale so, after a certain point, I save my Finale document as a midi and take it to Sibilius to add additional instruments. I prefer to work with one instrument and stave at a time and the scroll view in Finale is better for me (visually imparied, I work at a 200 % magnification). The ability to easily change the instruments and volumes of tracks is a plus for Sibilius, but I can do that in Cakewalk -- it's handy to have it there, but not necessary...I'm going to eventually generate a midi and take it to cakewalk anyway. It was easier on my first CD. There I "cooked" my own music. I started with some pseudo lyrics, worked out a chord progression, then played it into Finale. Printed that. Worked out a melody that said the lyrics to me. Threw away the lyrics. Then I used the mouse to put in the melody, created a midi, imported to Sibilius, and there I worked out chord patterns and what instruments to play what parts of the patterns...often trying different instruments to see what would give me the sound I wanted (often not sure what I wanted til I heard it)....I'm very partial to playing guitar chords allegro and then changing the instrument to a soft synth...for example....using that a lot on my upcoming Christmas CD, the Fantasia pad and the Soft Synth pad on my keyboard playing the same notes 2 octaves apart gives a real nice atmosphere to slower Christmas songs, for example....which is where I am right now....doing some different arrangements of Christmas songs...there I punch in the melody in Finale with a mouse, punch in the allegros, then take it to Sibilius to test different instruments and chord patterns using my keyboard. I'm sure your students have a more professional way of doing it, but I am entirely self-taught, which is to say, I buy a lot of books and lurk on a lot of lists soaking up knowledge looking for ideas and techniques to try.... ...and, don't get me wrong, if I could only have 1 notation program, it would be Finale, as long as I have Cakewalk to tweak the resultant midi data. One nice thing about Finale is I can test things on my keyboard and save it to a floppy, then play the floppy into Finale to get a printout of what I did, handy for playing around with motifs and chord progressions (and remembering what I did)....Sibelius totally ignores the touch sensitive keys and sustain pedal. Terrell D Lewis Music For A New Age http://angelfire.lycos.com/music5/hymnal http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/418/terrell_d_lewis.html http://www.freepraiseandworship.com/cgi-bin/files/list/5663.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher BJ Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "hymnist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney > At 3:23 PM -0600 11/11/02, hymnist wrote: > > > >Voyetra is not very intuitive and inputting some note sequences is > >difficult, but I can change between staffs with two clicks (input notes on > >the Treble staff and change it to guitar tab, for instance) or input on my > >small keyboard and then drop the notes down several octaves with two clicks. > > > This is really easy on Finale, too. In the Mass Mover, 6 and 7 to > transpose octaves, while 8 and 9 transpose seconds. And isn't guitar > tab simple to switch as well? I never use it, but I think it is one > option in the Staff Attributes dialogue box. (I gather that's what > you meant when you said change between staves, because navigating > from staff to staff and between measures inside the staff is > ultra-easy with the arrow keys, return and shift-return, and [ and ]. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
