At 6:17 PM -0600 11/11/02, hymnist wrote:
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.
I'm afraid I don't understand the problem. Are you talking about Speedy Entry without MIDI? Or are you talking about Simple Entry? Or are you talking about another program? There are four or five ways to get notes into Finale, and it would be odd if we couldn't find a way that would favour your bursitis.
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.
Once again, I'm not familiar enough with Sibelius to understand the problem compared to Finale. In Finale, in the Staff Tool, there is a menu item called Create New Staves Using Setup Wizard, which is just like creating a new document. It's very easy. Also, I never had any trouble using the Instrument List for patches (except it seems to decide when to send patch changes at unpredictable times!) though I admit it should be easier to set track volumes.
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.
Yes, we all realise that Finale is not a very versatile sequencer. Maybe in Finale 2025...
Christopher
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