On 16.07.2008 dhbailey wrote:
I can guess how the rumor got started -- in the promo material for Fin2009 on
the web-site, on the page dealing with Note Entry, there is a tab for Simple
Entry, for Hyperscribe, for MicNotator and for Scanning. No mention of Speedy
Entry at all. And since you're making such a big deal of all those methods
which have been part of Finale for many versions and you make *no* mention of
Speedy Entry at all on the page about note entry, it's an easy assumption that
you've decided to drop Speedy Entry. I'm sure there are many more people who
use Speedy Entry than use MicNotator, yet you make a big deal of MicNotator and
fail to mention Speedy Entry at all. For people already spooked by the major
tool realignment from Finale2008 and who have read the comments about how
Speedy Entry will eventually be done away with when its functionality is moved
over to Speedy Entry, this failure to mention Speedy Entry is significant.
Blame your publicity department for failing to mention what for many of us is
the major or only method of note entry.
Furthermore, I remember that we were at least half-officially told that
Speedy entry will not be further developed in any future versions of
Finale, as it had been decided to go Simple, and to convert people over
to Simple. This was a complete mystery to me then, as Speedy has a lot
of potential to be developed further, and I am sure there are at least
as many power users using Speedy as there are using Simple. I have
always asked for better control over Speedy keyboard commands (there are
a lot of problems for users of foreign keyboards) and add the ability to
enter at least articulations in Speedy. I, for one, have not found
Simple to be better or faster, and believe me, I have tried, especially
as I originally had the impression Simple would work better for Laptop
entry without a MIDI keyboard. Well, for me it does not, and even though
I have spent many hours trying to get used to it, it simply does not do
it for me.
I really hope that eventually MM will realize what potential Speedy
would have if it was improved to be the pro-tool for note entry.
Johannes
http://www.musikmanufaktur.com
http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de
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