At 06:14 PM 8/28/2003, Tyler Turner wrote: >When you press a pitch key in simple entry, it chooses >the octave for that pitch which is closest to the last >entered pitch. Since the largest interval in London >Bridges is a Perfect 4th, it will guess correctly >every time in this example.
Yes, I see that now in the Manual. That wasn't clear to me from playing with it -- thanks for pointing it out. And that *is* pretty nifty.
As I said, earlier, though, each person's situation is different. That's a very useful function if you're composing while looking at the screen and keeping track of where you are, but a lot of what I personally do in Finale starts with a lot of "heads-down" note entry -- copying something from an existing score, part, or arrangement. In Speedy, I can do this like touch typing, keeping my eyes on the source material and not thinking much about it. In Simple, as I go along and encounter leaps in the line, I need to be consciously thinking about whether the leap is greater than a fourth and whether I therefore need to switch an octave. In Speedy, I don't need to analyze at all -- I just go directly to the right note, in the right octave.
I find that every time a program tries to "think for me" in this way, the times it gets it right (and appears very cool in doing so) are often compensated for by the additional thinking I have to do when the program gets it wrong.
Aaron.
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