On 16 Sep 2005 at 8:56, Williams, Jim wrote: > This exchange leads me to pose the following questions: DO WE HANG OUT > ON ANY OF FINALE'S "LESSER-KNOWN CORNERS? IF SO, HOW MUCH? > > Please consider: > > 1. The ossia tool
I used it a long time ago, and have not used it much. It has basically met my needs, though. > 2. The mirror tool I tried it back in pre-3.x days, and gave up on it. When I discovered changing time signatures for pickup measures, I never used it again. > 3. The tempo tool I've tried using it, but the results are too unreliable that I abandoned it. I would use it if I could reliably get it to playback and incorporate its data into MIDI output, but I've got a number of files where the expression that's supposed to turn it on just doesn't work, so I quite using it. > 4. The MIDI tool I use the MIDI tool all the time. The idea of exporting to MIDI and editing in a sequencer is incredibly unpleasant, for the same reason that everyone agrees that Sibelius's linked parts are a good idea -- if you have to change the original score, you've got to either make the changes both in the score and the MIDI file, or you've got to recreate the MIDI file and then redo all the tweaks you did in it. Secondly, I don't like sequencers -- to me, they are unmusical, because I'm completely notation-oriented. > ============ > 5. The rhyming dictionary > 6. The Band-in-a-Box harmonizer. These latter two I've never used and never plan to. To me, the other strange areas are the chord tool and tab notation, neither of which I've ever had any call for (though I've often wished the chord tool could be used to create figured bass that would play back). Also, Simple Entry is completely useless, in my opinion, though if I'm remembering correctly Finale 2004 revamped it significantly and made it more usable. I also gave up on the transcription tool after several attempts back in the beginning. The results required way too much cleanup. Now with Speedy/keyboard entry, I can get notes in very, very quickly, much more quickly than I could with the transcription tool, because it took so much time to get accurate results after the fact. I also hardly ever use any of the plugins, most of which don't do anything I need. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
