Re: Lute Editing Programmes

2005-02-15 Thread Carl Donsbach
Stephan, et al., I skip most of the updates, buying only those I think will be useful to me. I probably purchase about every third one. For dotted notes I set it not to show the dot, then place a staccato dot next to the stem - once you edit that stuff in your tablature template you don't have

Re: Lute Editing Programmes

2005-02-15 Thread Carl Donsbach
I've used Finale for a while now, and like it, though I think '03 was really the first version that's much use for lute tablature. You can do just about anything else in the realm of music notation with Finale, but tablature is still catching up. It can be used for any kind of lute tablature,

Re: Lute Editing Programmes

2005-02-15 Thread Stephan Olbertz
Doc, David, what keeps me from actually buying Finale is the fact that they want to get paid every year for an update with features noone needs ("Create scale execises with one click!" etc.). Concerning the difficulty of the programme: I once heard that the reason for this was that Finale came

Re: Lute Editing Programmes

2005-02-15 Thread Roman Turovsky
> Hi Benjamin, > > I use Finale 2004 and have great results. I've been using the program since > version 3.0 and find it quite easy to use. The version I have now let's me > create templates for any number of strings and tunings and prints out > beautifully. Does the include Baroque Lute? RT

Re: Lute Editing Programmes

2005-02-15 Thread Roman Turovsky
Can the results be seen, somewhere? RT __ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv > I solved all those issues in my software, but it took lots of extra > programming, I > dont wonder that others havent bothered. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.

Re: Lute Editing Programmes

2005-02-15 Thread LGS-Europe
I use Finale. But mainly because that's what I started on and because it is great in lay out. It's a program that treats music as music, not as notation. So whatever we edit or change, it is always possible to retranscribe a piece of music in another tuning, key, time signature, clef, relative

RE: Lute Editing Programmes

2005-02-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Benjamin, I use Finale 2004 and have great results. I've been using the program since version 3.0 and find it quite easy to use. The version I have now let's me create templates for any number of strings and tunings and prints out beautifully. People complain about the learning curve, which is

Re: Lute Editing Programmes

2005-02-14 Thread demery
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Indeed, there are lute tablatures available on the programme. However, not > for several important tunings if one is to generalize the software so it can deal with any tuning, and one expects the program to handle playback, there will be a need for the program to be

Re: Lute Editing Programmes

2005-02-14 Thread demery
Roman Turovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > One major problem in Sibelius is that the input is MOUSE based, which means > it is a lot more harmful to hands and wrists than DJANGO and FRONIMO that > permit keyboard input for the bulk of labor. well, my software allows and encourages the use of the

Re: Lute Editing Programmes

2005-02-14 Thread Roman Turovsky
> Dana Emery's re-emergance onto the lutenet has reminded me of a quetion I've > > been meaning to ask for ages. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what > > programmes to use for editing tablature? (On a Mac?)>> > > I use Sibelius and love it, and have learned to do basically what I want wi

Re: Lute Editing Programmes

2005-02-14 Thread Lutebets
Hi, Benjamin -- In a message dated 2/14/05 9:36:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Hello, Dana Emery's re-emergance onto the lutenet has reminded me of a quetion I've been meaning to ask for ages. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what programmes to use for editing tablature? (On a Mac