John's right -- there are lots of shortcuts.
The best thing I can suggest to new Sibelius users is to learn to use
the escape key -- hit it whenever you're in doubt (yes, you can still
have things selected that you're not viewing onscreen at the moment),
and sometimes hitting it twice for
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From: Eric Dannewitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 8:30 AM
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: AW: [Finale] Sibelius 5 - Second impressions
John Howell wrote:
Nor if you decide you want to change
Eric Dannewitz wrote:
I, so far, find Sibelius extremely backwards. Like putting articulations
on notes after I enter them. Still can't figure that out. Nor if you
decide you want to change an instrument on a score.
So far, I've tried to do two trios with Sibelius, but ended up going
back to
You can select the articulation from the keypad at the same time as the
rhythm. But I find that awkward unless you just need a few isolated
articulations. For me, articulation is most seamlessly applied to entire
regions (select any number of measures) rather than note by note. I also
stop
At 10:30 PM -0800 10/30/07, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
I, so far, find Sibelius extremely backwards. Like putting
articulations on notes after I enter them. Still can't figure that
out.
I'll second everything David Bailey said, but add this. Sibelius
gives you choices, and one of those choices
John Howell wrote:
All notation is complex.
In this case, I think the complete opposite way. The problem as I see it
is that all music software of today are using technology from 30-40
years ago. If a music program was developed today, using the technology
invented during the last 5-10
John Howell wrote:
Nor if you decide you want to change an instrument on a score.
I assume that you mean same staff, change to a different instrument,
perhaps change clef or transposition, rather than the scenario David
explained. I know it can be done, but not how because I haven't had
Eric Dannewitz wrote:
John Howell wrote:
Nor if you decide you want to change an instrument on a score.
I assume that you mean same staff, change to a different instrument,
perhaps change clef or transposition, rather than the scenario David
explained. I know it can be done, but not how
Eric this may be what you want.
1. Right click on a blank part of the page for the context menu. At
the bottom of the menu is other. Open that up.
2. Select change instrument
3. Pick an instrument from the list.
4. Click the now blue (=loaded) arrow where you want to change the
Right clicking does not bring up any context menu that has OTHER in it.
I get Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Capture Idea, Voice, Hide/Show, Color
and Apply Color...
However, in the menu, there is Other buried under Create..
Sibelius 5.1...frustrating..
Richard Smith wrote:
Eric this
It sounds like your cursor was resting on some musical element when you
right clicked. You got the menu that opens when you are pointing to a
specific element. It's much shorter.
To get the longer list of options, you have to point to a blank space on
the page. Then there is a context menu
At 11:44 PM +0100 10/29/07, Kurt Gnos wrote:
Is there a way to select an entire staff except highlighting the first
measure, go to the last page and shift-clicking the last measure? I guess
there is... But there is no clicking to the left of the staff as in Finale,
so I didn't find out...;-)
At 10:25 PM +0100 10/30/07, Kurt Gnos wrote:
David, John,
thanks for the quick and competent answers.
Well, apart from the crashes, I get a quite good impression. And I am glad
you two are here to answer all my future Sibelius questions. I must say,
generally the user interface it quite nice
I, so far, find Sibelius extremely backwards. Like putting articulations
on notes after I enter them. Still can't figure that out. Nor if you
decide you want to change an instrument on a score.
So far, I've tried to do two trios with Sibelius, but ended up going
back to Finale cause it was
Kurt Gnos wrote:
David,
thanks, that did it.
Is there a way to select an entire staff except highlighting the first
measure, go to the last page and shift-clicking the last measure? I guess
there is... But there is no clicking to the left of the staff as in Finale,
so I didn't find out...;-)
Kurt Gnos wrote:
I tried that and it didn't work. I guess this is only for future entries - I
also did not find any apply button or something like this...
Just make sure you exit that dialog properly after editing any of the
text styles -- be sure to click any/all OK buttons and don't get
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