Chuck Israels wrote:
Sitting here with Dave Berger - showing him this discussion around which I lurk, and he suggested that having a check box choice might be a useful solution: "Do you want to change the parts, or not?"
(Dave is still working with pencils - sometimes faster than we can, and will probably not make the jump to this particular laborious relationship with screens and mice. I find it almost impossible to imagine going back.)
Indeed, as long as it is user-selectable and user-implementable (ctrl-l or something to tell the program to update the links NOW so that if we change our minds with the undo feature we won't take performance hits) I have no problem.
I can understand his composition going quite rapidly with pencil and paper (I find composing with Finale quite difficult) but from first note-in-score to complete-set-of-score-and-parts-ready-to-read-from is he really faster?
Hats off to him! I'm not quite sure why I find composing in Finale to be more daunting than the old MusicPrinterPlus but I think it might be that because of the layout issues and other things I get too caught up in the engraving aspect and find it hard not to pay attention to that while trying to get musical ideas down on paper. I find it easiest to get the musical ideas down on paper and pencil and then to play around with them in Finale.
-- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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