My wishlist - workflow helps
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 4:51 pm
1. After copying music with the Select Tool (or by using Cut / Paste), hit the "T" key (or some other key) to immediately select the area that was pasted to, so it can be edited again without having to grab it. Very useful for longer sections that require two edits or more.
2. A "BRB" (be right back!) button on the toolbar. Click once to activate a temporary bookmark of your current location. It lights up. After looking somewhere else in the score (or copying something from a faraway measure) click BRB again to return there.
3. When entering notes in Speedy with a MIDI keyboard, if I change a chord or note to an enharmonic equivalent, then enter more notes of the same pitches immediately after, I want Finale to have an option to snap to those enharmonics without me having to tell it every time. Extra nice: If I tie over a barline and advance a measure to the right, it remembers for the next measure too.
4. An option to automatically put ties on ALL chord tones when I press the "=" key in Speedy entry. I'm tired of having to move the cursor vertically "out of the way" to avoid having two identical, consecutive chords joined by a single tie.
5. With the selection tool, drag a single lyric syllable with the [Shift] key to attach it to a different note in the staff.
6. On the Lyrics window, separate arrow buttons for Shift Lyrics to quickly toggle between shift right and shift left.
7. When I change Lyric editing tools -- especially to/from Click Assignment -- the cursor in the Lyric box needs to stop jumping somewhere else.
2. A "BRB" (be right back!) button on the toolbar. Click once to activate a temporary bookmark of your current location. It lights up. After looking somewhere else in the score (or copying something from a faraway measure) click BRB again to return there.
3. When entering notes in Speedy with a MIDI keyboard, if I change a chord or note to an enharmonic equivalent, then enter more notes of the same pitches immediately after, I want Finale to have an option to snap to those enharmonics without me having to tell it every time. Extra nice: If I tie over a barline and advance a measure to the right, it remembers for the next measure too.
4. An option to automatically put ties on ALL chord tones when I press the "=" key in Speedy entry. I'm tired of having to move the cursor vertically "out of the way" to avoid having two identical, consecutive chords joined by a single tie.
5. With the selection tool, drag a single lyric syllable with the [Shift] key to attach it to a different note in the staff.
6. On the Lyrics window, separate arrow buttons for Shift Lyrics to quickly toggle between shift right and shift left.
7. When I change Lyric editing tools -- especially to/from Click Assignment -- the cursor in the Lyric box needs to stop jumping somewhere else.