RE: [Finale] Alt-v-a
I've used Quickeys with Finale for a number of years -- the version available for the PC is 2.5, which hasn't been updated in several years. It's not as powerful as Quickeys for the mac, but it sure helps eliminate a lot of steps (I use it in particular with TGTools functions). JC - Jeffery Cotton President Wired Musician, Inc. http://www.wiredmusician.net http://www.wiredmusician.net see my own website at http://www.jefferycotton.net http://www.jefferycotton.net - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Darcy James Argue Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 3:50 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] Alt-v-a Hi Johannes, On 17 Mar 2005, at 9:18 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: I don't think I ever tried it, but you can define keyboard shortcuts for any app under Panther. Unfortunately, no you can't. I think it only works on Cocoa apps? Or maybe it works on *some* Carbon apps, but not all. Anyway, it doesn't work in Finale. (Nor does it work in Sibelius.) Also, there's the (deal-breaking, for me) drawback that all shortcuts programmed in this way must involve the command key. Hopefully, Tiger will be better in this regard. It would be *really nice* to have OS-level support for user-customizable keyboard shortcuts in any application, but we are still a long way away from that. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
RE: [Finale] Finale/Sibelius and Finale 2005/Finale 200x comparison
I appreciate all the feedback and ideas, everyone, thank you. I've worked with 2005 for the last day now, and already see many dramatic improvements, and appreciated the returned control over the end product. So it is back to Finale for me. I've also written a blog entry on this topic (Finale vs. Sibelius) on my website, would be interested in your feedback: http://www.jefferycotton.net/info.asp?pgs=blogentryblbe=10 (The entry is entitled Sex in the Concert Hall -- which has nothing to do with Finale, alas.) Jeffery - Jeffery Cotton President Wired Musician, Inc. http://www.wiredmusician.net see my own website at http://www.jefferycotton.net - -Original Message- ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
RE: [Finale] Finale/Sibelius and Finale 2005/Finale 200x comparison
Thanks, Christopher -- I didn't want to go into too much detail about Sibelius' inadequacies in the blog, but as I do have to complete one piece I'm working on now in Sibelius (I'm too far along to start over now) it might be worth keeping a list of these things and posting them later. No, a hansom cab from Cassis to Marseille for 10 ten miles of southern French mountains would NOT be a good solution. I'm afraid I meant handsome (you can read the relevant blog entry here, and all will become clear: http://www.jefferycotton.net/info.asp?pgs=blogentryblbe=8). I didn't mean to cause confusion, but I doubt that the hot stud in leather chaps who can't spell 'hairpin' would have been quite as clear in its meaning -- to the majority anyway. Jeffery - Jeffery Cotton President Wired Musician, Inc. http://www.wiredmusician.net http://www.wiredmusician.net see my own website at http://www.jefferycotton.net http://www.jefferycotton.net - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christopher Smith Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 1:45 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] Finale/Sibelius and Finale 2005/Finale 200x comparison On Mar 4, 2005, at 5:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've also written a blog entry on this topic (Finale vs. Sibelius) on my website, would be interested in your feedback: Very nicely put, but for my money (all 0$ of it!) I would have liked more detail than just hairpin openings, particularly any details that might pertain to the accurate and readable, and not much else crowd. These are the ones I have to convince when talking about notation programs. BTW, in your second-last line in the blog, about getting out of Cassis, did you mean to write Maybe I can find that hansom cab driver again or did you really find him handsome? I wouldn't have been confused at all except for a previous line about Sibelius being the knockout bombshell in the tight dress talk about your mixed messages! No complaints from my end either way I am only interested in the idea that you want to express being clearly put across. 8-) Christopher ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
RE: [Finale] Finale/Sibelius and Finale 2005/Finale 200x comparison
disappearing measures, I've never seen that. What is that? I have occasionally seen measures APPEAR to vanish, but that is usually because I had a multi-measure rest where I later entered notes, and forgot to turn off the rest. That was a typo (although I have seen the measures with music"hidden" inside a multiple rest before) I should have said disappearing systems. A while back I was doing a string quartet score, for example, with two systems per page. After completing all the horizontal layout and editing,I set the top and bottom margins for all pages in an appropriate spot and the did Page Layout/Space Systems Evenly..., whereby Finale pushes the top system to the top of the page and the bottom system to the bottom of the page. What I discovered was that occasionally the bottom system would simply go missing, so page x would e.g. be system 10 and 11, page y would be system 12 with no bottom system, and page z would be sytem 14 and 15. So system 13 simply disappeared. If I looked in scroll view the music was still all there, just not in page view. Once I saw this I realized it was happening very frequently. Again, this was Finale 2002. Jeffery www.jefferycotton.net ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Finale/Sibelius and Finale 2005/Finale 200x comparison
Greetings all, mailing list newbie here. Glad to have found this. The latest version of Finale I am familiar with is 2002, having refused to upgrade beyond that until they fixed some of the basic notational problems in Finale that always seemed to get overlooked -- the eternal problems with tuplet placement, hairpins, disappearing measures, etc --in favor of "composer's assistant" nonsense. As someone who looks at these programs largely as notational tools, I got frustrated. In any case, I stuck it out with 2002 until recently, when I was finally convinced by friends to try Sibelius. I've been working with version 3.1.3 for about 2 months. Certainly things are superior in Sibelius when it comes to the user interface and certain formatting issues (at least in comparison to Finale 2002). But at the end of the day I am most concerned about what comes out of my printer, and Sibelius doesn't even begin to approach the professional look that I can get(after much hair-pulling) out of Finale. And I am frustrated again, because the response in the Sibelius forums is constantly "no, you can't do that (yet)." Anyway: I'm wondering if I can get some feedback on where things stand with Finale 2005 as regards the many problems I am familiar with in F2002, and I'm wondering what the NEW frustrations might be with 2005 (again, as regards notation -- I do not use these programs' composing tools orsound-file generating tools.)At this point I'd considering upgrading if I thought that 2005 was honestly better than 2002. If there is somewhere on the internet where someone has actually documented these things, that would certainly suffice. I don't want to take up too much bandwidth here! ;-) Thanks, Jeffery ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
