[Finale] More on octave jumps in speedy

[Chuck Israels]

Craig Parmerlee and David Bailey wrote about an occasional problem of octave displacement when exiting the speedy entry frame. I don't believe this is a hardware problem as David has suggested. I have experienced this over a period of a few years, perhaps in both 2002 and 2003 (Mac). It hasn't proved to be a big problem and doesn't happen so often that I get irritated by it, but it has certainly been a bug that has bitten a few times. The only time it's a problem is when I don't notice it until after I've printed scores and parts and then have to go back. It's easy enough to correct with a single mass mover keystroke, if you notice it when it happens.

Chuck

I've never run into this on anything other than percussion staves and
not with those for several versions.

But if you are running into it using normal speedy entry, with more than
one version of Finale and you never ran into it before with Finale2002,
my bet is that something is wrong with your computer, not Finale.

Did you install some other new software at around the time you installed
Finale2004, something that has some process running in the background?

Just a thought.



Craig Parmerlee wrote:

Last week I mentioned that when using Speedy tool on F2004, I am
frequently getting cases where measures are getting transposed down an
octave.

Well, now it has happened to me on F2002, so apparently there is some
long-standing bug out there.

Here is the situation. I believe it has only happened when I am viewing
in instrument pitch (not concert pitch). I select Speedy tool. I edit
one note in a measure that contains many notes. While I am editing, the
notes appear correctly, but when I leave the measure, all of the notes
in that measure are shifted exactly one octave lower -- even the ones I
didn't touch.

In most, if not all, cases, the editing I am doing is to lower or raise
the pitch using the minus or plus keys. I use the keys on the main
keyboard for this -- not the numeric keypad.

Unfortunately it is intermittent, so I can't reproduce it at will.
Anybody else having this?

Chuck Israels
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