On 16 Sep 2005 at 8:56, Williams, Jim wrote:
This exchange leads me to pose the following questions: DO WE HANG OUT
ON ANY OF FINALE'S "LESSER-KNOWN CORNERS? IF SO, HOW MUCH?
Please consider:
1. The ossia tool
Gave up on it with the first version I owned, Win 3.7 when, IIRC, it
would not keep slurs and other elements. I am contemplating trying it
again in an upcoming project to see if it has improved.
2. The mirror tool
Have never used it, accept by accident. Maybe I should try it sometime.
3. The tempo tool
I only use q = n and expressions to set tempo.
4. The MIDI tool
Use this all the time. I play back most of what I print to check. I
make demos using GPO for conductors and others. I would hate to have to
export to a sequencer or other program - changes would be a royal
nuisance. I prefer to make the playback adjustments needed for a good
performance in Finale so I can do it with notation and not sequencer
gibberish. Since I got an M-Box and ProTools LTE, I have been using
that for some post-Finale production work on the WAV file, though.
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5. The rhyming dictionary
I do write some lyrics on occasion and have used this a few times.
6. The Band-in-a-Box harmonizer.
Haven't used it, although I do have an old version of BIAB and have used
it a handful of times - (when I needed to come up with an ad-lib solo at
my orchestra job and made a quick rhythm track to practice with).
David Fenton mentioned a few other tools:
To me, the other strange areas are the chord tool and tab notation,
I have used chord tool quite a lot, back when I wrote charts for my
church rock band, and at various other times. I'm sure a lot of folks
use it.
I have never used TAB anything - I am a very bad guitarist myself, so I
wouldn't presume to tell another gutarist where to put his/her fingers
on the guitar or anywhere else. I imagine it is useful if it is
flexible. ( I write in more decimal point trombone positions [ex. 3.7]
than would the average guitarist.)
Also, Simple Entry is completely useless, in my opinion, though if
Used Simple Entry when my first Finale machine, with two sound cards,
had a midi conflict for a while and keyboard entry wouldn't work
(learned every copy and transpose function quickly as a result) but once
that was resolved I never went back to it. I gather that some folks
prefer it - I can drop it off my menu, so where's the harm?
I also gave up on the transcription tool after several attempts back
I occasionally use the transcription tool for entering simple quarter
two-eighths types of rhythms. It can be a little faster, and it can
also be a change of pace to keep one from getting bored when entering
notes.
I also hardly ever use any of the plugins, most of which don't do anything I
need.
I use several of the plugins quite regularly.
Anybody ever use MicNotator?
Raymond Horton
Bass Trombonist,
Louisville Orchestra
composer, arranger
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