$On 15 Oct 2007 at 15:21, dhbailey wrote: > Any combination of computer keyboard, mouse and midi-keyboard is > possible in Sibelius, just as in Finale. The one control which Sibelius > lacks that Finale has is the ability to use the up/down cursor keys to > place the pitch. And if that's a deal-breaker for somebody, that's > fine, there's no reason to switch. I certainly won't try to tell > anybody they should move to Sibelius. I will say that using a midi > keyboard along with the numpad layouts in Sibelius, I was amazed to find > that I am as fast at entering music in Sibelius as I am using Speedy > Entry in Finale, and far faster than I have ever been able to be using > Simple Entry in Finale.
My problem with the Sibelius approach is the assumption behind its design that you will put all attributes of a note on it during the initial entry step. I deduce that this is the assumption because it's much more difficult to apply articulations and expressions and the like in Sibelius after note entry than it is in Finale. I am very fast in Finale with Speedy and the Midi keyboard getting the notes and rhythms in. I then go back and add everything else in one pass. I tried this approach in Sib4 and found it involved a whole helluva lot of mousing and switching keypad layouts, as opposed to Finale where the only switching was between tools, and everything else was with metatools (well, most everything). Am I missing something about Sibelius? Or is this yet another case of the abominable practice of designing a UI on the assumption that your users will use a macro program to create their own shortcuts? -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
