At 11:46 AM 6/9/05 -0400, Christopher Smith wrote: >Cubase has (had?) an option Set to Value (or Set Length? I don't >remember exactly the name), which did exactly what you are looking for. >If your own sequencer has something like this, you wouldn't have to >screw around with articulations.
And this option doesn't squash everything together? I'll have to look into it to see if Sonar does this. By now, of course, I've redone it all by hand. :) >I hear you! One tool that I have been expecting ever since I started >using Finale is what was called in Cubase "Legato", which might be >better called "Mimimize Rests" or something like that. It just makes >every note selected full value. And of course, the contrary, which is >what you are trying to do. I suggested a third entry method to the present Speedy and Speedy Insert. In a complete measure, right now Speedy changes the present note value and pulls or pushes everything in the measure; Speedy Insert addes the note and pushes everything in the measure. So something like 'Speedy Fixed', if you typed a note value, would.... 1. Do nothing, if the note value was the same as the present note (as with the regular Speedy). 2. Change the note and add rests, if the note value was smaller than the present note. 3. Change the note and delete the subsequent notes/rests, if the note value was larger than the present note. This would make *lots* of my compositional-style entry and editing incredibly fast, without fighting through Speedy's measure mess-up. "All I wanted to do was change those two notes 64th notes. I can't even read the mess now!" >I also often wish I could select individual notes for copying to >another staff, the way every sequencer I have ever seen works. Yes, exactly right. Grab just the notes you want, and have them appear where they're dropped, filling rests inside or outside, depending on what's dragged. >And for that matter, it would be REALLY useful to be able to select >discontiguous parts of the score for applying edits, like selecting >only a few notes, then a few more notes, then one more note, and >transposing the whole lot up or down an octave (or any other interval, >of course!) without affecting the notes in between. Again, yes. These are tasks already accomplished by the time it gets to the engraving stage, which was Finale's original purpose. But with its expansion to scoring-studio stage, you'd hope for it to include compositional tools as well. But now they have K-Tel, um, Mac-Tel to worry about. :) Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
