{Spam} Re: [Finale] RE: Playback in transposed scores while entering notes
On 1/8/2011 12:39 PM, Florence + Michael wrote: [snip] Clearly many of us want the option to hear concert pitch sounds while entering notes in a transposed part. Is somebody from MakeMusic reading all this? Should we all write letters expressing our wish? Someone from MakeMusic is reading this. However, in order to show the people who decide what gets implemented and what doesn't everybody who wants this option needs to contact MakeMusic directly, and get all your friends and relatives and coworkers and everybody you've ever met to do the same. The tech support people log in all the requests for a particular change or addition and if enough people request it, it gets put on the list of things to work on. If only a few people ask for it while lots of people ask for something else, it's the something else that gets worked on. They need some way to triage all the requests since they can't work on them all, so the more requests a particular thing gets, the more likely it is to be implemented. And even though it might seem like a lot of people on this list are requesting it, only about 5 or 6 people have actually participated in the thread, which isn't a very big number given the many thousands of Finale users around the globe. -- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] RE: Playback in transposed scores while entering notes
Gosh, what I've started... To sum up, many of us would love to have this as an option. Display in concert pitch is not a great option for me, because if one is thinking in transposed pitch, the eye and the ear get out of whack that way. There are dozens of reasons for writing and thinking in C scores -- many fine composers (Prokofiev?) wrote C scores. There are dozens of reasons for writing and thinking transposed scores. It isn't necessarily a pianist/non-pianist issue (I'm a pianist who has learned to think in transposed scores). For me the issue is seeing and thinking the way the performer will. It is important for me to get myself in the performer's head. If I don't do this, I make stupid errors of judgement. But that's me. There isn't a right and wrong. Finale is something we love because it gives everyone plenty enough rope to hang themselves -- almost everything is controllable and customizable. And, in fact, everything is possible, if you can be inventive enough. For now, I'll just have to double-transpose, or to turn the volume down. David ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] RE: Playback in transposed scores while entering notes
Whether I work with a C score or a transposed one depends on the source I'm using: If I'm given a C score to transcribe, I'll enter the music in a C score. If I'm given a transposed score, I'll enter the music in a transposed score. When I'm working with a transposed score, I would much prefer to hear the music I'm entering at concert pitch. The way it works at present gets particularly annoying if the instrument in question has a large transposing interval: if I'm entering music for baritone sax, for instance (transposition a sixth + an octave), the music sounds far too high and squeaky as I'm entering it. If I use the Garritan baritone sax, some notes won't make any sound at all when I'm entering them, being above the range of the sample sounds. Clearly many of us want the option to hear concert pitch sounds while entering notes in a transposed part. Is somebody from MakeMusic reading all this? Should we all write letters expressing our wish? Michael On 8 Jan 2011, at 17:43, David Froom wrote: Gosh, what I've started... To sum up, many of us would love to have this as an option. Display in concert pitch is not a great option for me, because if one is thinking in transposed pitch, the eye and the ear get out of whack that way. There are dozens of reasons for writing and thinking in C scores -- many fine composers (Prokofiev?) wrote C scores. There are dozens of reasons for writing and thinking transposed scores. It isn't necessarily a pianist/non-pianist issue (I'm a pianist who has learned to think in transposed scores). For me the issue is seeing and thinking the way the performer will. It is important for me to get myself in the performer's head. If I don't do this, I make stupid errors of judgement. But that's me. There isn't a right and wrong. Finale is something we love because it gives everyone plenty enough rope to hang themselves -- almost everything is controllable and customizable. And, in fact, everything is possible, if you can be inventive enough. For now, I'll just have to double-transpose, or to turn the volume down. David ___ 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