At 06:39 AM 8/10/2007, dhbailey wrote:
>Aaron Sherber wrote:
>[snip]> (I have said for years that the two main things keeping me from
>> exploring Sibelius in depth were the lack of Scroll view and the lack of
>> something like Speedy. Now they've got Scroll view....)
>
>Sibelius doesn't have the 3-octave keyboard, but they do use the alpha
>keys a through g to place pitches.
Right, this is just like Fin Simple. But the a-g letter keys are not
contiguous and are not arranged in a scale pattern, and therefore I
find them practically useless. Speedy I can do like a touch typist
(or a pianist), but for Sibelius/Simple I need to keep looking at the keyboard.
>closest pitch of that name, but the octave leap key is so easy to use --
>ctrl-upcursor or ctrl-downcursor
But that's a 2-hand keystroke, and it means moving my hands from
their home position -- therefore not so easy to use. In Speedy, with
my left hand choosing pitches from the letter keys and my right hand
choosing durations from the num keypad, I can go like blazes.
Anything that makes me move my hands from those positions slows me down.
I'm not trying to convert anyone -- just pointing out that I've
already considered the things you mention. YMMV, as always.
Aaron.
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