This is true.
There are a number of things in the Finale Menu I never use, and there
are things that I use all the time I wish were right there. I think if
they designed some sort of user definable menu where you can choose
which items you want in it, the order, and perhaps command key/hot key
assignments, that would be very cool.
The things I use a lot are Music Spacing, and respell notes, and Fit
Music. Fit music has a key command associated with it, but the others
you have to go into the menu and find. I suppose something like
QuickKeys would solve this issue for me, but it would be a lot slicker
to be able to tweak the program to fit your working style......
dhbailey wrote:
I believe it was designed by musicians. The problem is that not all
musicians think of things the same way.
My wife is a violinist, I'm a trumpet player and conductor. Totally
regardless of our musical backgrounds or interests, merely as
individuals, we seem to have opposite ways of arriving at the same
point, simply because of the way our brains work. So that often when
I explain something to her, including musical things, she just won't
get it and will give me her understanding, which I won't understand.
Then she plays what she's trying to explain or shows me what she's
trying to explain and it's exactly what I had in mind.
The situation with the doubling-at-the-octave-on-the-same-staff issue
seems to me to be more one of these sorts of situations than a musical
issue.
I would immediately consider it transposition, as would others, while
it is equally evident that many others wouldn't consider it an aspect
of transposition at all.
Both ways of looking at it are correct, but to claim that the people
who designed the feature into Finale aren't musicians because they
didn't place it where some people think it should go is totally
unfair. Just as it is unfair to brand people who don't think like we
do about musical things to be "non-musicians."
No computer program will ever place items in menus or in discoverable
locations where every end-user will find them. That's a fact of
computer life, until we get to neural-net computers (I don't even know
if that's the right term, but it sounds good) with which we interact
vocally and simply say double these selected notes up an octave (or
whatever) and we don't have any menus to interact with at all.
But just because someone thinks about things differently doesn't give
anybody a right to demean them or their intentions.
And I really think that if the index were much more comprehensive,
including many more potential ways of getting at the same point, that
would go a long way to obviating the fact that no computer program
will ever place all its menu items or features in places that make
sense to everybody.
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