On 4 Oct 2006 at 22:47, Williams, Jim wrote: > Yes, David, I would have a different definition of a sequencer.
Well, I'd say you're using a completely incorrect and idiosyncratic definition. > I find the MIDI tool to be rather unwieldy in Finale. I don't think anyone will disagree with that. > My definition of a sequencer would include some kind of editable > piano-roll view as well as the ability to draw controller data using a > mouse and edit MIDI at the event-list level. I have never understood how anyone could find utility in a piano-roll view of data. Drawing controller data is something I've wished for in Finale (for volume and tempo). I can't see why it wouldn't be pretty easy to implement, but MM doesn't seem interested. It's much less of an issue now with Human Playback, though. I can't see any utility whatsoever in editing MIDI data at the event- list level. It is only a substitute for a GUI that doesn't represent the actual data onscreen accurately. This is a problem with Finale's continuous data window -- there is no way to set the starts and stops precisely, only by drawing onscreen in a very primitive UI. The result is that I often have to change pedal on/off data in a sequencer that allows access to the event list. But the solution to that problem in Finale is not an editable event list -- that wouldn't work because that isn't the way Finale stores the data in the first place. The solution is to fix the UI so that the user can accurately set the controllers being represented onscreen. But this is the old WordPerfect Reveal Codes argument in a new guise (it was the inadequacy of the representation of what you got that necessitated the editing of the underlying formatting codes in the Reveal Codes windows), so I'll stop there. -- 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
