on 7/13/02 6:32 AM, Peter Castine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> From: Richard Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "finale lists.shsu.edu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> 7. Idea notepads. Wouldn't it be nice to have someplace to store your main >> theme, counter theme, ostinato patterns, riff or whatever, and then be able >> to point and click them into parts? > > Chris Yavelow did this 16 years ago in Professional Composer, using the > Copy&Paste with the Scrapbook. He then built a handful of macros to > automate things like "copy riff #5 into the insertion point and transpose > it up a fourth". > > Can you not Copy&Paste Mass Mover selections into the Scrapbook in > Finale? > > <<Launch Finale, scribble something in, switch to another app, show > clipboard>>... > > Arrggggggh. Finale apparently doesn't support Global Scrap, one of the > most basic Mac UI principles. > > I never noticed before, because this method of composing is simply not > how I work. But I know lots and lots of people do work that way. > > Finale *ought* to support Global scrap for a number of reasons (this is > how embedding notational examples into a Word Processor doc *should* > work, for instance). > > >> 10. Full AppleScript implementation. > > Aaaaaaaaay-men, brother. This would also handle your #11 (macro-izablity > for all functions). I think I asked for AScript about four years ago. > Sigh. > > Cheers, > > Peter
I was arranging recently for orchestra and chorus and did this sort of thing in what I called a "work file", a regular Finale file with fewer staves. I worked out and stored ideas that would or could come later in the arrangement, but that I was unsure of in some aspect. I stuck mainly with notes (voicings, harmonies, lines) intentionally avoiding measure attached exps. and lyrics. Maybe it wasn't quite point and click as requested above, but the process worked well for me in this situation. I can't see the benefit of too much development of some new notepad or scrapbook feature when there are viable solutions already. Don Hart _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
