Re: [Worship] need advice about keyboard for use with Finale

["Fred Kohn" <fkohn@columbus.rr.com>]

Dave Stone wrote:



>Did you already buy the Finale package?  If not, I'd generally suggest
>going with Coda's Allegro or PrintMusic rather than the full-blown
>'mothership' for most purposes.  Certainly, either of the smaller (and
>cheaper!) versions are just fine for worship lead sheets or SATB
>arrangements.

Fred responds:

Yes I use Allegro and it works just fine. Most of the stuff that it can't do
you're really not going to miss doing lead sheets etc. for worship music.
I'm doing a project now where I really miss the ability to change clefs in
the middle of a measure, but that's not a worship project...



>That depends on how well you can play.  I don't have any problems using
>the Hyperscribe entry tool for melody lines.

Oh yeah, I forgot about the Hyperscribe tool. Although I had problems using
it on my older, slower computer. It tended to make the system crash for some
reason.

>BTW, you can use the MIDI within the Speedy entry tool too...

The one guy I know that does this full time for a living uses this method to
notate his stuff. The point I was trying to make is that if you are doing
primarily single-note lines, the midi keyboard isn't really necessary. If
you were doing say, full blown piano or organ arrangements a midi keyboard
may be a necessity, but otherwise...

Once you get the feel of using the computer keyboard you can really fly
using the speedy entry tool. I use my left hand on the arrow keys and right
hand on the numeric keys.

Fred

Fred


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