David, I'm sorry if I offended you. It was not my intent to insult
Finale our your working method, merely to say that while Speedy Entry is
for many (myself included) the most efficient manner of working with
Finale, Sibelius works best with keyboard step time entry methods.
I realize that Finale had Simple Entry long before Sibelius hit the US
but it was little more than a clumsy point & click novice method. It was
only when Sibelius developed really useful step time entry that Finale
began to modify Simple Entry into the very productive tool it has become
today. Even in my Finale 2005, the Simple Entry methods are clumsy
compared to Sibelius. I am told it's gotten much better in later versions.
This is not to insult Finale; I think we've all become used to seeing
good ideas migrate from one software to another. Think how many things
have changed in the last 5 years in all software fields. Heck, Sibelius
now has "Panorama view". We all know where that idea came from.
I know you prefer the Finale interface. You have written that in
response to me before. I respect that and know you're not the only one.
It would be a boring world if we were all the same. My purpose in that
thread was simply to try and smooth the way for those trying Sibelius
out. I posted it on the Sibelius list because I thought it inappropriate
on this one and I hoped to get other Sibelius users to contribute their
experiences.
Please accept my apology for any misunderstanding.
Richard Smith
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 14 Oct 2007 at 7:59, Richard Smith wrote:
Sorry. Try this one.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sibelius-list/message/33713.
Sorry, but for a thread to begin with this:
Sibelius' keyboard entry routines are what Finale has been
trying
to copy for several years.
This just by no stretch of the imagination a true statement. Simple
Entry existed before Sibelius existed. Yes, it has been significantly
changed, but in ways that are organic to the evolution of GUIs and
increased processing power in the computers funning Finale. That the
solutions to some of those problems may be nearly identical is due to
the fact that the task is pretty much identical.
And the advice to "loose [sic] the Speedy Entry habit" is going to be
very off-putting to those like me who are very fluent in it.
The point is that Sibelius is not as versatile as Finale in terms of
providing options for music entry. Bad-mouthing Finale doesn't change
the fact that Sibelius is more limiting, and enforces a single way of
working, whereas Finale offers choice.
Yes, the two programs are different. But trying to say that
Sibelius's limited methods are just better than Finale's is not going
to win converts to Sibelius. It's going to make Finale users
defensive and suspicious of the rest of the advice.
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