It would make more sense and be more useful to me if I could play (and hear) the sounding pitch on the MIDI keyboard, and have the transposed pitch appear on the staff.
--JMC On Friday, January 7, 2011, Aaron Sherber <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > Aaron. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ James Cooper Composer, classical guitarist, songwriter www.ModeZ.com ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
