On Apr 28, 2007, at 9:34 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
But of course, using the Horiztonal Offset in the expression
definition, you CAN specify an absolute offset from beat position.
That's just one of the many benefits of the Fin2004+ expressions.
And, as you point out, there's just no way selecting expressions
from the list can ever be remotely as efficient as working with
metatools -- and that's even without the substantial added benefits
of auto-positioning. I admit that I find myself vaguely appalled
that Mark still selects dynamics from the expression list. He
probably still pays his bills by mail, too. [grin]
Only one of them, and that's only because I can't pay it by phone. My
first choice for paying bills is to pay by credit card over the phone
just punching numbers without having to talk to a person. That's me:
not too high-tech, not too low-tech, but somewhere comfortably in the
middle. (But you'll be happy to know I do use browser tabs now. I'm
not sure what got me started, but I've been doing it since some time
last fall, I think.)
At the risk of appalling you further, I'm curious how many
expressions you keep on your expression list. My basic template has
12, of which two I never use anymore and could probably delete. I
get the impression that I'm in a minority here and most people keep a
longer list.
In my experience there's only a couple of them that recur frequently
enough to be worth programming individually. Others I have on the
list just to cannibalize their specs. For example, one of my 12 just
says "Tempo", and then I edit it to whatever tempo I need,
duplicating if I need more than one. It seems silly to have a mile-
long list of expressions just so that Allegro, Adagio, Moderato,
Andante, Largo, etc, etc, etc, are all pre-programmed, and besides
there's always going to be something unusual that's not on your list
anyway. Same idea for all the misc markings that will be in small
italic. As often as not, you're going to encounter something that
isn't already on the list anyway, so I just type each one new for
each piece as needed. As a result my expression list for any given
file is not much more than what's needed for that particular piece,
so there's never very far to hunt.
My articulation list, on the other hand, is voluminous, and heavily
metatooled. That's because articulations -- for me, at least -- are
defined in far more detail and are more regular in their usage. My
basic template has 40 articulations defined. Of those, 17 have
metatools (mostly in pairs), which more or less corresponds to the
ones I use frequently.
mdl
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