Hi all, So now that I think about it, this is my first time doing *any* percussion in 2011, though I've done a fair bit in previous versions.
I always enter music in Speedy, using the computer keyboard. It used to be that in percussion maps you could specify not only what sound you wanted (i.e., MIDI out) and where you wanted that instrument to display on the staff, but also what MIDI note you wanted to play to get that pitch (i.e., MIDI in). So I could tell Finale that I wanted to play treble clef third line to get a snare drum, and the map would place that on the third line (or somewhere else) and output the GM midi note to get a snare. In Fin2011, it looks like you can no longer specify the MIDI in pitch. You just tell the map "I want a snare sound, and I want it to display here." But now it's not clear what I need to enter to produce that snare sound. The help file says I can do percussion entry using all the usual tools of Speedy Entry, but that doesn't seem to be true. I can cursor up and cursor down, and the Speedy frame now helpfully tells me what sound will result, but it appears that I can no longer type a specify pitch (again, using the old-style 3-octave Speedy) to get a certain note. In fact, if I repeatedly press the same pitch, the Speedy cursor appears to cycle through all of the available percussion notes in the map. Am I missing something here? I admit to feeling thwarted not just by the program, but by the help file as well; I can usually find what I need in there, if it's not a paradigm of organization. I'd be grateful for a few pointers, or even a suggestion of where to look in the help. Thanks, Aaron. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
