Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney (Finale is "easy"?)

2002-11-15 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Nov 2002 at 22:48, Roving Rowes wrote: > I'm with Phil on this one. If I'm in a word processor (WordPerfect, MS > Word, even old WordStar, take your pick) and I do a merge document, the > program combines the text with the fields from the database and > automatically formats it, does all it

Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney (Finale is "easy"?)

2002-11-15 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 7:34 am -0800 11/14/02, Robert Patterson wrote: On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 07:25:08 -0800 (PST), Andrew Stiller wrote: An order of magnitude means a factor of 10. I hate to be technical, but an order of magnitude means a factor of X, where X is any number you choose (including "real" & "imagina

Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney (Finale is "easy"?)

2002-11-15 Thread Jari Williamsson
Roving Rowes writes: > And now for an entirely different question: is there a way to get the > various voices in a score to play back only on the left side or right side? Pan the staves. (Make sure the staves are on different channels.) Best regards, Jari Williamsson ICQ #: 78036563

[Finale] Re: Paul McCartney (Finale is "easy"?)

2002-11-14 Thread Roving Rowes
ot a MIDI instrument.) Thanks. Norm - Original Message - From: "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:54:52 -0500 Subject: Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney (Finale is "easy"?) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 13 Nov

Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney (Finale is "easy"?)

2002-11-14 Thread Philip Aker
On Thursday, Nov 14, 2002, at 06:15 US/Pacific, Andrew Stiller wrote: David W. Fenton: [it] is simply not even close to fair to compare a Finale document to a word processing document. There are several orders of magnitude of differences in complexity between the two. An order of magnitude

Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney (Finale is "easy"?)

2002-11-14 Thread Robert Patterson
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 07:25:08 -0800 (PST), Andrew Stiller wrote: > An order of magnitude means a factor of 10. I hate to be technical, but an order of magnitude means a factor of X, where X is any number you choose (including "real" & "imaginary" numbers). FWIW: I just verified this with my Webste

Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney (Finale is "easy"?)

2002-11-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
David W. Fenton: [it] is simply not even close to fair to compare a Finale document to a word processing document. There are several orders of magnitude of differences in complexity between the two. An order of magnitude means a factor of 10. Is word processing really hundreds or thousands of

Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney (Finale is "easy"?)

2002-11-13 Thread David W. Fenton
On 13 Nov 2002 at 9:41, Phil Shaw wrote: > I contrast this Finale experience with any > word processor: after I enter a text document, > I can simply "Print", and get an acceptable > copy. If I do the same with Finale, without > the final tweaking and editing, I get a > wretched unreadable copy,

Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney (Finale is "easy"?)

2002-11-13 Thread Phil Shaw
OK, if the subject is the ease of use of Finale I've got to weigh in. I just finished (I hope I hope) a project where I transcribed a bunch (29) of jazz solos. Entering the music into Finale is (for me) easy and convenient. I like it I like it. But. I just finished an editing cycle, incorpor