At 2:22 PM -0700 5/31/09, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
No, that is NOT Speedy. Speedy allows you to be holding down a chord and then deciding on the notes value. Sibelius, as far as I know, does not have this.
I fully realize that different people have different ways of working, but I find this particular argument (duration before pitch or pitch before duration) rather amusing. In hand copying (remember doing THAT, anyone?!!), you do both simultaneously, placing a note on a line or space and making it black or white, and then finish up the details. And that goes clear back to monks with featers! Any computer program breaks that down and requires doing one and then the other. Big deal! The human mind is really a bit more flexible that that.
I used Mosaic for years, and I honestly can't remember the order for entry. Duration first, I think, using the number keys, then pitch entry (which would make it more similar to Sibelius), but I honestly can't remember how the pitch was entered, except that mousing it (as always) was the least desirable option. (So soon we forget!!) But I can't remember getting emotionally involved about it, either.
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