Richard Smith wrote:
I think different people think and work differently and this is why a
feature some like is deplored by others. Although I had almost 10 years
of successful Finale experience before moving primarily to Sibelius, I
much prefer the way Sibelius works. I have frequently said it seems to
think more like me. Perhaps Finale "thinks" more like you do. I think
this is why we have to very mature and very capable notation packages
that are quite different from each other.
Richard Smith
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David W. Fenton wrote:
On 12 Aug 2006 at 15:31, Richard Smith wrote:
If your not familiar with Sibelius, the keypad is an on screen
representation of the ten keypad on a full size keyboard. The buttons
may be clicked on screen with the mouse or selected at the actual
keyboard. There are selectable five tabs on the keypad and the cue
note switch is under the second. The entire process can be carried out
(except note selection) without a mouse.
I find this interface incredibly difficult, as I'm constantly having
to switch between the different keypads to find what I want (which
never seems to be on the tab that I expect). This is one of the
reasons I find Sibelius difficult to use -- it just seems to me to be
a false limitation of the GUI because of a binding to the keyboard.
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Richard's points in the top paragraph are very true. I, like David
Fenton, find the numeric-keypad paradigm of the Sibelius interface to be
very unintuitive and have a hard time, no matter how much I try. But
there are those who love it and who flourish with it.
Curiously though, there are also some heavy-hitter Sibelius users
(admittedly not many) who don't like it either and who use Sibelius'
wonderful key-mapping feature to map most of their most commonly used
keypad commands to qwerty-keyboard commands. The biggest of these (and
maybe some others) came to the current Sibelius versions from the old
Acorn computers, which apparently had a different interface.
But there is definitely a huge difference between the two and I have yet
to meet anybody who likes both -- there are quite a few folks who use
both, but I haven't read any messages from anybody who really likes
both. Most prefer one over the other.
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