On 13 Jul 2005 at 9:37, Jari Williamsson wrote: > Richard Smith wrote: > > > These explanations are very wordy but if you play with it, I think > > you will find Sibelius easy to use without a midi. I work quickly on > > both my desktop and my laptop without midi. Just give yourself a > > little time to get adjusted to Sibelius before making a judgment. > > Finale methods won't work so you have to build new habits. > > What you just described is extremely similar to the Simple Entry > keyboard method.
With the exception of the extraordinarily confusing entry palette that maps the keypad to 5 completely different meanings (about half the defaults being things I would never use, ever), depending on the MODE. This is a case where Sibelius is more modal than Finale, and it's a bad one, since it causes the meaning of keystroke commands to change according to something that can only be identified by looking at the screen. And it's similar to *Simple Entry*, not Speedy using the QWERTY keyboard. With the latter, you don't do nearly as much mousing, nor do you constantly have to switch modes to get to the shortcuts you want. Of course, some the keypad shortcuts switch to the kinds of modes that Finale does have (like the articulations shortcut), so it's partially as modal as Finale. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc All non-quoted content (c) David W. Fenton, all rights reserved _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
