Re: [Finale] Preferred method for entering notes/etc into finale 2012

2016-02-17 Thread Girard Bowe
aels |Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 4:53 PM |To: finale@shsu.edu |Subject: Re: [Finale] Preferred method for entering notes/etc into finale 2012 | |And the biggest reason for my use of Speedy entry is - pitch first, then note value. |I can't wrap my head around the opposite way. Perhaps if Simple we

Re: [Finale] Preferred method for entering notes/etc into finale 2012

2016-02-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
Totally agree. The only difference for me is that I use Speedy with my computer keyboard as a 3-octave keyboard (z-m, a-j, q-u) to select the pitch, rather than arrow keys. Very quick and efficient, and one of the main reasons I haven't been tempted by other notation apps. Aaron. On Wed, Feb

Re: [Finale] Preferred method for entering notes/etc into finale 2012

2016-02-17 Thread Chuck Israels
And the biggest reason for my use of Speedy entry is - pitch first, then note value. I can't wrap my head around the opposite way. Perhaps if Simple were to have that option, I'd have reason to consider changing. Chuck Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 17, 2016, at 2:52 PM, Mike Greensill

Re: [Finale] Preferred method for entering notes/etc into finale 2012

2016-02-17 Thread Chuck Israels
My experience exactly. Chuck Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 17, 2016, at 2:52 PM, Mike Greensill wrote: > > I use "speedy" with a midi keyboard and find it's very, very quick for > entering notes. Apparently the 'powers that be' at Finale much prefer > "simple" but I

Re: [Finale] Preferred method for entering notes/etc into finale 2012

2016-02-17 Thread John Roberts
I think many of the people who have used Finale or a while use Speedy, with or without a midi keyboard (in my case it's with). It used to be Make Music's recommended method, and that's what we got used to and developed the habits. Latterly it would seem that Simple entry has been improved

Re: [Finale] Preferred method for entering notes/etc into finale 2012

2016-02-17 Thread Mike Greensill
I use "speedy" with a midi keyboard and find it's very, very quick for entering notes. Apparently the 'powers that be' at Finale much prefer "simple" but I just don'y see it myself. My biggest fear is that someday they'll dump "speedy". I use templates that I've created for almost all my projects

Re: [Finale] Preferred method for entering notes/etc into finale 2012

2016-02-17 Thread Lawrence Yates
I echo David's method almost to the letter. Cheers, Lawrence On 17 February 2016 at 19:26, David H. Bailey wrote: > On 2/17/2016 1:57 PM, Martin Nickless wrote: > > As a relative newcomer to finale I would like to seek the opinion of > > people out there and which

Re: [Finale] Preferred method for entering notes/etc into finale 2012

2016-02-17 Thread David H. Bailey
On 2/17/2016 1:57 PM, Martin Nickless wrote: > As a relative newcomer to finale I would like to seek the opinion of > people out there and which means They think is the quickest way to > input notation etc into finale on the completion of a Pen and paper > sketch Do most people tend to have

[Finale] Preferred method for entering notes/etc into finale 2012

2016-02-17 Thread Martin Nickless
As a relative newcomer to finale I would like to seek the opinion of people out there and which means They think is the quickest way to input notation etc into finale on the completion of a Pen and paper sketch Do most people tend to have templates already set up for the project they're about