On Jan 6, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Ken Moore wrote:
Shan't then. It took me a long time to find octave doubling, and I agree with David, it's not intuitive. Dennis B-K's suggestion makes a lot of sense to me. It's what Finale would have been like if it had been designed by musicians rather than by programmers.
Really, though, there IS a limit to how intuitive a complex program like Finale could be. After a while, it DOES come down to what you have learned, and if that involves a Stockholm-like attachment to old methods, well, I am willing to suffer the accusation in the name of getting work done.
For example, the recent change of view command from (Mac) cmd-tilde to opt-cmd-tilde then to cmd-E was a major PITA for me. None of the keystrokes was particularly intuitive, but I was USED to the first one, dammit! Then as soon as I got used to the new one, they changed it AGAIN!
Right now I am trying to come up with some mnemonic to associate with the F though ' (apostrophe) for choosing tools. None of those keys has a strong mental attachment in my mind to the tools I need most often, except maybe StaFf with F, and ArtiKulation with K. Right now my only solution is to paste a Post-It to my screen with my selections marked down... (and do you think I could find the tool-selection keystrokes in the manual? I searched for Tool , I seached for Selection, Metatool, a whole host of things, and finally found it browsing. Indexing COULD be better...)
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