I don't see what's so special about it, either. If a person uses midi
keyboard for pitch and computer keyboard for duration, then I would
think that simple and speedy are about equal. If a person uses computer
keyboard for both, using number keys for duration and cursor keys to
move to the pitches, I find Speedy to be, um, speedier. But this
requires remembering the different duration keys. Which wasn't that
hard I find, but for those who work with Finale only rarely, selecting
note types from a palette is easier. If you like mousing. If not
mousing, but using the computer keyboard to select duration, then simple
isn't so simple because you need alt-number combinations (or
command-number on mac) which is more complicated than simply number
keys, making speedy simpler than simple entry.
But on the other hand, I can see that if a person starts with simple
entry, a certain workflow could be built up and speed could be achieved,
and there's a certain comfort level in seeing what there is to choose from.
But like Chuck, every time I try Simple Entry, I'm back with Speedy
Entry immediately.
David H. Bailey
Williams, Jim wrote:
FWIW, I don't get simple entry, either.
Jim
From: Chuck Israels
Sent: Fri 13-Jul-07 15:10
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Finale] Simple not Simple
Dear Hiro,
I am going through the same thing - trying to learn Simple, because the
MM guys I see yearly use it and claim it has advantages, and I have a
little time to play around with it now. So far, every time I try, I end
up going back to Speedy. Please let me know if you succeed. I'll look
at the entry tutorial and try again. (Thanks Mark.)
Chuck
On Jul 13, 2007, at 10:12 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
I don't like PDF since its color space doesn't match with SpiderPro2
calibrated OSX and eats CPU by million lines of error log (you don't
know why CPU hits higher until you open system.log file). So, I thought
HTML manual is good.
So far, I don't like it. I don't like it resizes automatically, and
mess with my preference of browser window size. However, the bigger
issue is that I can't find what I need.
I never used Simple Entry before but I felt I need to try. Man, I have
been searching the HTML manual for 30 min and I am not getting a
straight answer. I just want to enter notes without clicking on tools.
Keyboard shortcut list doesn't say how to choose duration. Besides, you
can't just print the Simple Entry Tool section. The Simple Entry
Tutorial tells me a bunch of unrelated stuff like copy/past, but not
keyboard shortcut. I am getting frustrated, and going back to Speedy.
I miss 3 volumes of Finale manual :-(
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- Hiro
Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
<http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com>
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