And all I suggest is that you give it some time. I look at the keyboard/screen less in Simple now than I ever did in Speedy. It's not hard to get used to spotting intervals greater than a 4th. Furthermore, since it's playing each note as you enter it, if you do make a mistake, you'll hear it and you can press a key to fix it. You aren't penalized for entering the note in the wrong octave first and then fixing it. It's the same number of keystrokes as getting it correct the first time. This is another reason I'm very fond of Simple Entry now. Mistakes don't slow you down as much as they do in Speedy.
Tyler --- Aaron Sherber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finalelist > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
