On 1/7/2011 10:05 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
I said from the outset that I agree it should be an option!
Yes, I didn't mean for my post to sound like I was disagreeing with you -- I was just giving more reasons to agree.
However, I personally find it impossible to use Finale without a MIDI keyboard and I suspect that the majority of Finale users do use one.
Well, of course, one of the great strengths of Finale is the multitude of working habits it supports. I don't play piano well and don't own a MIDI keyboard, but the old Speedy idea of the three letter rows as three octaves made immediate sense to me and I've used it forever and with great speed. I've even dragged the [SpeedyKeys] section of my ini file through successive versions so that I could be untroubled by the remapping of the Speedy keys that MM imposed a few years back. (Hey, there's something else that would be great as an option: Let the user decide which Speedy behavior he wants.)
When I'm inputting from another composer's transposed score, I tend to skirt the issue by turning off the volume on both the computer and the MIDI keyboard.
Yes, but then you lose the advantage of using your ears to proofread as you go. Even with my horn parts sounding up a fifth from where they should be, I find this extra tool very useful.
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