Yeah, this does sound like a good thing. Perhaps we'll see it happen in
Finale 2007? I agree that the Check Range plugin is annoying, it would
be much easier to see them highlighted/selected.
Stephen Peters wrote:
Actually, this is one of my favorite features in Sibelius. Yes, it's
annoying during working conditions, and probably best to turn it off
when entering music if it bothers. But it's an invaluable tool for
proofreading, since it easily highlights which notes are likely to be
out of range for each instrument, so you can decide on a phrase level
what to do about those sections.
By comparison, Finale's "Check Range" plug-in is an annoying tool,
since it asks you to step one-by-one through the notes that are out of
range and adjust them individually, rather than just highlight the
problems and letting me decide whether I want to adjust the octave,
change the melodic line, or just move the entire section to a
different instrument. Using Check Range, I find I usually end up just
taking notes about what problems it finds, and going back later to fix
them properly by hand. Any tool that drives me to use pen and paper
alongside the computer needs to be redesigned, IMHO. :-)
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