Crap! I'm screwed! I find Simple so slow and counterintuitive that I
can't deal with it at all! All the commands are different, and some
that I need a lot aren't there!
Well, I feel the same. I've tried simple a few times with no real
success. But I can't tell if that's a problem of the
dhbailey wrote:
This indeed is very disturbing news -- why a company would take a
(until recently) perfectly good working tool in an application, one
which many people have grown to depend upon, and which even the
company used to tout as the preferred tool for anything other than
novice
Reading MakeMusic's 2006 Annual report is interesting
http://makemusic.com/documents/MakeMusic_2006_AnnualReport.pdf
I would say that SmartMusic is indeed, for better or worse, their focus
now, even though Finale seems to make them more money.
dhbailey wrote:
This indeed is very disturbing
This is, in essence, the same thing Tom Carryth told me after a workshop in
Nashville last month. He said speedy's *current functionality would be
preserved*, but could wind up in one all-inclusive tool. Or, some of
simple's access to articulations, expressions, etc., could be brought into
Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 06:39 AM 8/10/2007, dhbailey wrote:
Aaron Sherber wrote:
[snip] (I have said for years that the two main things keeping me from
exploring Sibelius in depth were the lack of Scroll view and the
lack of
something like Speedy. Now they've got Scroll view)
At 06:39 AM 8/10/2007, dhbailey wrote:
Aaron Sherber wrote:
[snip] (I have said for years that the two main things keeping me from
exploring Sibelius in depth were the lack of Scroll view and the lack of
something like Speedy. Now they've got Scroll view)
Sibelius doesn't have the 3-octave
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip] When you try it be on the lookout for a few things; Rests, Tom's
demos
usually don't include much in the way of rests and they can take an extra keystroke
when values change. A quarter rest, eighth rest eighth note, and half rest
can take up to seven
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 9 Aug 2007 at 20:27, Horace Brock wrote:
They also
said that eventually they plan to make Simple Entry so easy and
powerful that they can phase out Speedy altogether. Especially since
you can also use a MIDI keyboard in Simple.
If they do that there won't be any
Aaron Sherber wrote:
[snip] (I have said for years that the two main things keeping me from
exploring Sibelius in depth were the lack of Scroll view and the lack of
something like Speedy. Now they've got Scroll view)
Sibelius doesn't have the 3-octave keyboard, but they do use the alpha
On 10 Aug 2007 at 6:43, dhbailey wrote:
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 9 Aug 2007 at 20:27, Horace Brock wrote:
They also
said that eventually they plan to make Simple Entry so easy and
powerful that they can phase out Speedy altogether. Especially
since you can also use a MIDI keyboard
On 9 Aug 2007 at 23:10, Richard Smith wrote:
If your really interested in learning to use Simple well, the best way
is probably to give yourself a project (something in which you are not
pressed for time or working for a client) and just make yourself do it
with Simple, no Speedy. Kind of a
At 02:54 PM 8/10/2007, David W. Fenton wrote:
What was the recent version of Finale that made so many vast
improvements in Simple? Was it 2004 or 2005?
2004.
Aaron.
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At 07:40 AM 8/10/2007 -0400, Aaron Sherber wrote:
In Speedy, with
my left hand choosing pitches from the letter keys and my right hand
choosing durations from the num keypad, I can go like blazes.
Anything that makes me move my hands from those positions slows me down.
Agreed on keeping
On 10 Aug 2007 at 7:57, dhbailey wrote:
...Which makes it all the more puzzling why MakeMusic would abandon that
tool, eventually phasing it out.
Er, we don't actually know that they are planning to do this. All we
have is one person's report that somebody told him that, i.e., rumor
and
On Aug 9, 2007, at 8:27 PM, Horace Brock wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:36:44 -0400, you wrote:
Did they then explain why MakeMusic seems to have abandoned Speedy
Entry, which I have found can be quite efficient and entirely
computer-keyboard-centered if desired, as their suggested method of
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:36:44 -0400, you wrote:
Horace Brock wrote:
Ah, yes. Well, the two Toms were VERY strong on keyboard shortcuts.
They said excessive clicking of mouses is just a shortcut to carpal
tunnel syndrome.
Did they then explain why MakeMusic seems to have abandoned Speedy
On 9 Aug 2007 at 20:27, Horace Brock wrote:
They also
said that eventually they plan to make Simple Entry so easy and
powerful that they can phase out Speedy altogether. Especially since
you can also use a MIDI keyboard in Simple.
If they do that there won't be any reason to *not* move to
At 08:27 PM 8/9/2007, Horace Brock wrote:
Actually, they did. The keyboard shortcuts in Simple are now so
comprehensive, and the new Selection Tool so versatile, that mousing
is increasingly less necessary (if that makes any sense). They also
said that eventually they plan to make Simple Entry so
On Aug 9, 2007, at 5:50 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Aug 9, 2007, at 8:27 PM, Horace Brock wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:36:44 -0400, you wrote:
Did they then explain why MakeMusic seems to have abandoned Speedy
Entry, which I have found can be quite efficient and entirely
In a message dated 8/9/07 9:31:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Did they then explain why MakeMusic seems to have abandoned Speedy
Entry, which I have found can be quite efficient and entirely
computer-keyboard-centered if desired, as their suggested method of
entry, in favor of Simple
My latest Finale installation is 2005. Compared to my first Finale (v.
2), in which Simple was useless and Speedy was the only way to go, it is
vastly improved. Compared to my Sibelius (any version) Fin 05's Simple
is still a little clumsy, but then Simple entry really is the Sibelius
way to
Ah, yes. Well, the two Toms were VERY strong on keyboard shortcuts.
They said excessive clicking of mouses is just a shortcut to carpal
tunnel syndrome.
Horace
On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:00:36 -0400, you wrote:
On Aug 7, 2007, at 8:30 PM, Horace Brock wrote:
Well, they DID strongly recommend
John Howell wrote:
At 9:43 PM -0400 8/1/07, Horace Brock wrote:
I was privileged this week to participate in what is planned as the
first in a series of regional Finale workshops, run by MakeMusic.
Topics included:
Working with real-time input (Hyperscribe, etc.)
Understanding Percussion
On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:03:59 -0400, you wrote:
John Howell wrote:
At 9:43 PM -0400 8/1/07, Horace Brock wrote:
I was privileged this week to participate in what is planned as the
first in a series of regional Finale workshops, run by MakeMusic.
Topics included:
Working with real-time input
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:39:55 -0400, you wrote:
At 9:43 PM -0400 8/1/07, Horace Brock wrote:
I was privileged this week to participate in what is planned as the
first in a series of regional Finale workshops, run by MakeMusic.
Topics included:
Working with real-time input (Hyperscribe, etc.)
On Aug 7, 2007, at 8:30 PM, Horace Brock wrote:
Well, they DID strongly recommend the tutorial videos.
Yes, the vids rock. Great stuff there.
The only thing they don't stress enough in the vids is the keyboard
shortcuts, which cuts down on operating time quite a bit for many
functions.
Horace Brock wrote:
I was privileged this week to participate in what is planned as the
first in a series of regional Finale workshops, run by MakeMusic.
...
While I can certainly see the value of such an intensive workshop,
and applaud MM for getting out among its customers, one
Out of curiosity, is it something that MakeMusic video tapes and sells?
I know of a couple of people who'd be interested in more tutorials, or
more in depth tutorials.
Horace Brock wrote:
Yes, there was a charge. $125.00, to be exact. Aside from the
excellent tutelage, they provided for each
At 9:43 PM -0400 8/1/07, Horace Brock wrote:
I was privileged this week to participate in what is planned as the
first in a series of regional Finale workshops, run by MakeMusic.
Topics included:
Working with real-time input (Hyperscribe, etc.)
Understanding Percussion Mapping (worth the price
I was privileged this week to participate in what is planned as the
first in a series of regional Finale workshops, run by MakeMusic.
Our clinicians were Tom Carruth and Tom Johnson of MakeMusic.
Topics included:
Working with real-time input (Hyperscribe, etc.)
Understanding Percussion Mapping
I know Tom Johnson, and he always does things 3 times too fast for
me. Doesn't stop me from finding him to be a good guy, however.
Chuck
On Aug 1, 2007, at 6:43 PM, Horace Brock wrote:
I was privileged this week to participate in what is planned as the
first in a series of regional Finale
Ok, were there any Questions that were interesting?
Does Finale 2008 save SmartMusic files that smartmusic 10 can read? I
mean, Finale 2007 came out in August of last year (I think), and it
wasn't until they got around to releasing SmartMusic 10 in April of 2008
that I could ditch Finale
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