On 17 Sep 2005 at 15:20, Mark D Lew wrote: [re: MIDI tool:] > I don't mind the user-unfriendliness. I can see why it would bother > others, though. It's rather cold and mathematical. Personally, I > don't mind typing in note values as EDUs, and once you understand the > odd logic of the numbers it's rational and does what I tell it to do, > but that is a bit of an initial barrier to making it work. I can also > see how it would be inefficient if you had a lot of edits to make, but > I only ever use it to change a few notes here and there, so that's not > a problem for me either.
Well, one thing that I didn't even know for a very long time was when the MIDI tool is selected, you can block select measures (as with the Mass Edit tool) and use the MIDI tool menu to, say, add or subtract note velocities, or to change start/stop times of all the selected notes. This is pretty useful in a lot of circumstances. The part of the MIDI tool interface that is infuriatingly amateurish is the way the data displayed in the MIDI window relates to the score. The top window often overlaps the staff you're attempting to edit, so you can't see the notes (especially ledger lines above the staff, very common in the piano right hand). And then there's the incredibly stupid bug that if the first measure in scroll view of the staff you double click on to open the MIDI editing window doesn't have any notes, you instead get the data for one of the *other* staves. This one makes no sense to me at all as anything but a bug that never should have lasted more than one version, but it has been there in every version of Finale I've ever used for editing MIDI data. But I'm accustomed to it and am no longer confused or frustrated by this kind kind of stupidity. I do see why it drives people away from the idea of making use of it. The one part I just can't use it the continuous data mode, because you just can't create the kinds of curves you want. There's some problem with it that prevents ever being able to get precise control over the results, so I just don't use it except if forced to do so. -- 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
