David W. Fenton wrote:
On 20 Jul 2007 at 14:09, dhbailey wrote:
Would it be a great advantage over Finale? I doubt it. Sibelius
would do all that you do in Finale, but you'd have to learn a whole
new program and you might buy the program, invest the time learning it
and find that it isn't any easier or better than Finale. On the other
hand, you might try it and find that you work twice as fast with half
the headaches. Or you might find it a whole lot more hassle and have
spent the money and time for nothing.
Am I wrong in thinking that those who prefer to work in Finale in
Simple Entry are more likely to warm to Sibelius than those of us who
work in Speedy? I'm in the latter camp and find Sibelius incredibly
frustrating and difficult to use. Their new panorama view would help
one aspect of that, but not the main one for music entry, which is
that I can't stand the palette-based approach and the method of
entering notes.
No, you're not wrong in thinking that. They have nothing that's exactly
like my use of Speedy, with one hand on the top-row numbers for note
value and one hand on the cursor keys to move the cursor to where I want
to place the note, with automatic movement to the next rhythmic slot.
BUT, Sibelius provides a wonderful ability to remap practically
everything (or at least a whole lot of the program) so that one doesn't
have to use the numeric keypad for everything, and I've mapped the
top-row number keys so that they work just like the top-row number keys
in Speedy Entry, and then I can use either the mouse to move to the
proper location and click for the next note, or can use the midi
keyboard, something I never did in Speedy Entry.
It has been this lack of a directly comparable entry method to Speedy
which has kept me from immersing myself in Sibelius, but I have promised
myself that with Sib5 I am going to do just that, the same way I did
with Finale when I first started.
But you're definitely right that people who are used to Simple Entry
have an easier entree into Sibelius.
So between the built-in ability to remap so much in Sibelius and the
inclusion Sib5 of the panorama view, it's possible for Speedy Entry
users to feel more at home than they might at first suspect, but the
comparison to Simple Entry is much more direct.
--
David H. Bailey
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