{Spam} Re: [Finale] RE: Playback in transposed scores while entering notes

[David H. Bailey]

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.



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David H. Bailey
dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
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Re: [Finale] RE: Playback in transposed scores while entering notes

[Florence + Michael]

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
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