The theory - among the MM guys, is that in Simple, you can add
articulations and dynamics within the same tool - the same entry
window. I get that, and I can see that as a way to save a step or
two. However, I find that my way of thinking about music takes a
certain amount of cogitation - time to think about how loud, long, or
short the notes will need to be, and during that thinking process,
there's plenty of time to change tools to add the necessary
markings. Maybe I just don't work so quickly as to make that
additional convenience important enough to stumble through the
relearning process. I'm so used to thinking pitch first, then
duration, and Simple reverses that.
Still, I'm making an attempt to get familiar with Simple.
Chuck
On Jul 13, 2007, at 1:07 PM, dhbailey wrote:
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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