Things that are making me a little cranky today...
So there's an arrangement of Marche Slave that I'm playing with the community band that is pretty terrible in a very specific way.... the page turns are at some of the worst places possible. I tried scanning the music and then making a smallish version of it (4 pages to a page) but it's just too small to see. I then thought, some of my music friends talk about Finale, I should give that a try.
I haven't been this angry at a computer program in a really long time. Finale just drives me nuts. Here's my beef: In a word processor if you select a character and push the bold or italics or whatever button the selected text goes bold or italics or whatever. If you select a note and press sharp, natural or flat.... nothing. It just sits there. I'm sure somewhere there is a way to add an accidental to a note, but whatever the way it isn't the way that you would guess, which is the whole point of an intuitive interface.
Oh, and there's a bug in the counting of complicated triplets in measures so that I get short-changed by an 16th note within the triplet. How do I know it's a bug, well when the program insists on doing something that is simply wrong, it's a bug. Luckily, "check for extra notes" can be turned off.
So here's what I recommend to the Finale people, on the off chance that they stumble across my modest blog: have a mode where the mouse is a pointer. When the mouse selects a note allow for additions of accidentals or changes to other notes by changing the buttons that define what the note does. So if a quarter note is selected the quarter note setting is depressed and if another note value is press, then the note changes to that value.
hmm... grrr.... I'm still angry.
I think the last time I was this mad was when I was making numbered lists in word and word decided to be extra helpful. I hate when word tries to be extra helpful.
Speaking of pet peeves, has anyone else noticed the trend in DVD's to make the previews not only the first thing you see, but now I seen DVD's where you can't really bypass the previews. It's bad enough that DVD's won't let you bypass the copywrite notice (which everyone has seen a billion time) or the notice that the commentary is for entertainment purposes only (which is one of the other dumbest thing I've seen... exactly what are they worried about, I really would like to know who would sue over the sorts of things that are in the commentary), but not letting you bypass the previews; that just makes my angry.
So there's an arrangement of Marche Slave that I'm playing with the community band that is pretty terrible in a very specific way.... the page turns are at some of the worst places possible. I tried scanning the music and then making a smallish version of it (4 pages to a page) but it's just too small to see. I then thought, some of my music friends talk about Finale, I should give that a try.
I haven't been this angry at a computer program in a really long time. Finale just drives me nuts. Here's my beef: In a word processor if you select a character and push the bold or italics or whatever button the selected text goes bold or italics or whatever. If you select a note and press sharp, natural or flat.... nothing. It just sits there. I'm sure somewhere there is a way to add an accidental to a note, but whatever the way it isn't the way that you would guess, which is the whole point of an intuitive interface.
Oh, and there's a bug in the counting of complicated triplets in measures so that I get short-changed by an 16th note within the triplet. How do I know it's a bug, well when the program insists on doing something that is simply wrong, it's a bug. Luckily, "check for extra notes" can be turned off.
So here's what I recommend to the Finale people, on the off chance that they stumble across my modest blog: have a mode where the mouse is a pointer. When the mouse selects a note allow for additions of accidentals or changes to other notes by changing the buttons that define what the note does. So if a quarter note is selected the quarter note setting is depressed and if another note value is press, then the note changes to that value.
hmm... grrr.... I'm still angry.
I think the last time I was this mad was when I was making numbered lists in word and word decided to be extra helpful. I hate when word tries to be extra helpful.
Speaking of pet peeves, has anyone else noticed the trend in DVD's to make the previews not only the first thing you see, but now I seen DVD's where you can't really bypass the previews. It's bad enough that DVD's won't let you bypass the copywrite notice (which everyone has seen a billion time) or the notice that the commentary is for entertainment purposes only (which is one of the other dumbest thing I've seen... exactly what are they worried about, I really would like to know who would sue over the sorts of things that are in the commentary), but not letting you bypass the previews; that just makes my angry.
posted by David at 8:06 PM
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