Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2017 17:04 CEST, "Nelson, Jocelyn" <nels...@ecu.edu> schrieb:
> Thanks so much, Ralf. I tried your advice and the tablature is just the way I > want it now. > I'm sticking with this program because it's free and relatively easy; And it's actually Oen Source and Free Software. Even better. > at least I've figured it out and I'm almost done transcribing the first song. > I just ordered a numeric > keypad for my laptop to make the tab entry faster. Depending on how your brain is wired, you might not even need the numeric keypad - even with italian tab MuseScore accepts letters to enter tab. Another secret speed entry trick of mine: get a cheap midi keyboard, preferably with a few buttons (often called "drum pads") and assign note value selection to those buttons. Together with a cheap (~ 15$) food pedal attached to the midi keyboard (I use this to advance to the next chord in "manual real time input mode") this makes for super-fast tab writing. Just one hint: the note->tab postition algorythm seems to work best when you enter the notes of a chord from top to bottom (that's something I had to get usesd to). It's also a good idea to read the printed manual "Mastering MuseScore", it's writen by one of the main developers and that way you can support further develop,ment. Or even better: get your library to by copy. Even so a lot of the Tab features are newer than the printed book (the curse of fast open source development) there are a lot of great time savers to be found. > Your many details below are greatly appreciated. You're wellcome. > And many thanks to everyone else on this list. Some of these recommended > programs are beautiful and I would like to explore them in the future. > > Best wishes and happy transcribing to all, > Jocelyn Thanks, same to you, Ralf Mattes To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
