Eric this may be what you want.
1. Right click on a blank part of the page for the context menu. At
the bottom of the menu is "other". Open that up.
2. Select "change instrument"
3. Pick an instrument from the list.
4. Click the now blue (="loaded") arrow where you want to change the
instrument. You will get a transposition and key and/or clef
change as needed as well as a text instruction to the performer to
change to the instrument.
5. If you want to change the stave for the entire score, click in the
left margin just to the left of the staff. It will change the
staff and look as if the new instrument had been the choice fromt
he beginning.
I think that having multiple ways of doing things has a lot to do with
familiarity. I really like Sibelius' step time entry. There are so many
ways to enter music that I am constantly changing my approach to fit the
particular circumstance. Conversely, I find Finale's Speedy Entry
restrictive but many of the workers on this list would certainly
disagree. These two are just "differently abled" and the versatility is
good for us all.
Richard Smith
http://www.rgsmithmusic.com
Eric Dannewitz wrote:
John Howell wrote:
Nor if you decide you want to change an instrument on a score.
I assume that you mean same staff, change to a different instrument,
perhaps change clef or transposition, rather than the scenario David
explained. I know it can be done, but not how because I haven't had
to learn it yet.
Either way. Seems like you can't do it easily in Sibelius. You have to
create a new staff and then copy all the stuff over? You can't just
click the staff and change it? Seems non-intuitive to me.
All notation is complex. (Don't forget that it was originally
developed by monks using feathers!!!) But any program has to deal
with those complexities. Some do it better than others, but I don't
EVER expect any programmer or team of programmers to come up with
exactly the same way of approaching things.
Well, ideally, they should have multiple ways of doing it. One path is
not always the best path. That is one thing that is great about Finale
is that it generally has a number of ways to do what you want it to do.
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