On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 07:17 PM, hymnist wrote:
And....if Finale would allow you to add additional instruments liek SibiliusHave you tried "Add New Staves with Setup Wizard?" It does exactly what you seem to be asking for, including assigning the creation of a MIDI instrument for the staff.
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 aAlso extremely easy in Finale. Track Volume: MIDI Tool, select first measure with notes, or the whole staff, set CC7 value. Default patch for the track: Instrument List, set patch. Patch changes can be inserted with expressions or with the MIDI tool. Just about as easy as in any sequencer.
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.
True, and it has often been said (by me among others) that Finale's MIDI implementation could be a little more user-friendly, but it is quite effective once you really get to using it. It is just clumsier than a sequencer since you are always in a notation view. But you can insert MIDI data easily, and Finale even does some nice things like percentage based scaling of CC data. It won't create all of the curves types like you get in most sequencers, but it certainly gets the job done. And, like Sibelius, you can have text expressions that contain MIDI alteration messages, and control the insertion point to a pretty minute degree....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.
Tim
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