Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 07:43 AM 08/29/2004, dhbailey wrote: >While not exactly the same as Finale's speedy entry, Sibelius does have >the ability to use one hand on the numeric keypad to select note values, >dots, rests, articulations and much more, while the left hand moves the >cursor up and down, so it is different but comparable to Finale's Speedy >Entry.
Actually, unless I'm missing something, what Sibelius has is exactly the way the revamped Simple Entry works in Finale. Left hand chooses pitch (using A-G), accidental, etc., while right hand chooses duration. This is different from Speedy, where the qwerty keys form a 3-octave keyboard, with the pitches in order. There's also the slight difference that in Speedy you type pitch first and then duration, while in Simple (and I think Sibelius also) you choose a duration and then type the pitch.
Yes, that about sums it up.
But I am fascinated -- I use Speedy Entry all the time but the way I use it is with my right hand on the cursor keys to place the cursor on the correct pitch, and my left hand on the top-row number keys to define the duration. I gave up on the 3-octave layout on the alpha keys of the computer keyboard in short order. There is no directly comparable method for note entry in Sibelius, which is what I find so frustrating with it.
This working method came directly from my many years using MusicPrinterPlus. The only difference is that they used alpha keys to define duration (q for quarter note, w for whole note, h for half-note, e for 8th-note, s for sixteenth note, t for thirty-second note.)
I can fly when I don't have to pay attention to which octave or note-keys my left hand is on.
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