On 13 Aug 2006 at 8:25, dhbailey wrote: > Curiously though, there are also some heavy-hitter Sibelius users > (admittedly not many) who don't like it either and who use Sibelius' > wonderful key-mapping feature to map most of their most commonly used > keypad commands to qwerty-keyboard commands. The biggest of these > (and maybe some others) came to the current Sibelius versions from the > old Acorn computers, which apparently had a different interface.
Even though I'm a keyboard person, I don't find keyboard shortcuts in visual programs like Finale to be terribly helpful. My problem with the keypad UI is that the freedom in the visual interface has been sacrified to the limits of the keyboard. Of course, perhaps it's because I think of the onscreen keypad as a toolbar, and I'm frustrated that too many of the things on the "toolbar" are in hard-to-reach locations (I keep all my main Finale toolbars active at all times). Secondly, it's modal, which means the same location onscreen has different meaning for each tab. This can be OK, but in this case, it just gets in the way of my being able to remember what's what. The one thing that I really liked about the Sibelius UI was the note selection, where you could ctrl-click individual notes to add them to a selection and then use the keypad to apply multiple things to the group of notes at once. This non-contiguous selection is something I'd *really* like to see in Finale. It would make the decomposition of combined parts much easier, for instance. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
