Jonathan Smith wrote:
And good heavens, why can't I enter a whole note and have it stay a
whole note?
Andrew Stiller
Ah-ha, now this one really annoys me too. The notehead selection process
for drum maps is designed so you get to choose closed and open noteheads
- which is great for all those crazy notehead shapes that come with the
percussion fonts. But what it doesn't do is differentiate between a half
and whole note.
There is a BIG difference in these to even the untrained eye. I get fed
up with having to change these individually. This should really be
fixed, how long have we had drum mapping now? And how many upgrades
since then to get it fixed.
What is needed is a third selection box for whole notes, then you could
even set up things like the crossed cymbal heads to be slightly larger
for whole notes than half notes which would really look swish.
Don't hold your breath on getting percussion maps or any other internal
dysfunctional aspects of Finale working properly or easily any time soon.
The marketing department is what drives Finale development, so if it
won't make good advertising copy the development team only gets to work
on it during their coffee breaks. Or so it seems.
Or if Sibelius does it first. So perhaps if you lobby them to come up
with extremely easy, transparent, intuitive percussion staves, and make
a big marketing splash about it, then Finale will follow suit.
We'll probably get "ThoughtNotator(tm)" before we get improved
percussion maps!
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David H. Bailey
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