From: "David H. Bailey" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Preferred method for entering notes/etc into finale2012
> I use speedy entry -- sometimes with a midi keyboard but more frequently > using the computer's keyboard. Arrow keys up and down to select the > pitch, number keys to select the rhythm. After using Finale for over 25 years and trying out all methods of note entry, I can say without any doubt that David's method is the fastest and, once you become practised at it, the most accurate. Left hand on the up/down arrows for the pitch and right hand on the number pad keys for the durations. When copying sheet music I now only need to glance at the screen every once in a while and never at my fingers - I can keep my eyes firmly on the original music for long periods and this makes it very fast indeed. There are many keyboard shortcuts and you can set up metatools to make things even faster. Taking my hand away to use a MIDI keyboard would really slow me down, as does using the mouse. Don't be tempted into thinking that scanning music or using Hyperscribe will speed things up, it doesn't. It ends up as a mess which you have to spend even more time cleaning up. > I don't usually use templates, preferring to set each new document up > precisely for that particular project. But then I don't usually work on > projects which have to be "just so" for a particular publisher. Here's where I differ from David and agree with Mike G. It takes a long, long time fiddling with all the settings and making expression and articulation libraries etc, before you get them the way you want. A blank template file stores them all, instantly ready for the next project. I do have one template in a particular style for a publisher, but mostly I use my own "house style". Peter --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
