At 1:45 PM 11/12/02, David H. Bailey wrote: >Yes I will say that -- when I first began using Finale, with Speedy >Entry, I DID use the alpha keys as a three octave keyboard. It seemed I >always had to reset the octaves and then had to reset them again, and >having only 5 fingers I had to move my hand back and forth and found it >far simpler to move the cursor by hand.
I use a combination of both, and I assume I'm not the only one. If a melody is moving in a scalewise way, only a step or two at a time, I tend to use the arrow keys. If there are large jumps, I prefer the alpha keys. On the topic of Speedy efficiency, here's something I wish for: On my current system (FinMac 2002), if the Speedy cursor is not over an entry, typing the "enter" key does absolutely nothing. I want it to add the note to the previous entry. That is, I want "enter" to act on the prior entry if there is no current entry under the cursor, just as the accidentals, tie, beam break, and even clear keys do. Why should enter be any different? Surely this wouldn't be so hard to implement, and it would be a great time-save when entering large chords with qwerty-Speedy. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
