I have two really simple questions and will keep this brief as possible.
1) Regarding subscriptions, I am a finale convert. I just purchased the crossover monthly subscription option because I wasn't 100% sure I wanted to drop the $600 for the full version. Now I do and I want to completely move over. I lose about 2 weeks out of my busy season writing for several HS and college groups engraving parts. Is it possible to cancel or transfer over my monthly subscription and purchase the full program? I've only been on Sibelius for less than a month.
2) Keypad. There are multiple things that I will NEVER use on the keypad window. Like a lot of you, I'm using a small piano and a keyboard with a numerical keypad to enter music into Sibelius. Can I re-map the keypad so the first two tabs have everything I want to use (and it shows it visually) on the window and place all the other options on the last 4 tabs? I saw there was a keypad/shortcut option under preferences. Looked like I couldn't move around the keypad tabs around at all. I also saw an article online regarding mapping for the keypad but it seemed like it was short cuts for the non-numerical keypad. I didn't find the article very clear.
I'm pretty sure Avid won't refuse your money, John, maybe @Vee can sort that out for you.
AFAIK, you cannot muck about with the keypad layouts themselves - they are hard-wired into the software. It's not really that hard to swap between them using the '+' key on the numerical keypad.
I did thinnk there was a way to show all layouts at once - but maybe I was dreaming.
Without seeing the details of your Sibelius license history it's difficult to say but generally speaking yes we should be able to help. I'll ask one of the tech support team to get in touch with you.
There are a few user-definable keys on the keypad, but as you've found, most of them are hard coded. This is something we could consider for a future release.
John - you can assign keyboard shortcuts to every single one of the things found in the different keypad layouts. You would probably use the ones already assigned to the first layout - and keep that layout visible - and then change the ones you do not have in view ...
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Erik Hagner, Denmark
MacBook5,1 - OS X 10.11.4
Sibelius 7.1.3
Finale 2014.5
I have everything I need on a single layer of the keypad, and all easily memorable. Just reassign the contents to key-presses of your liking. You can use shift & alt in conjunction with the keypad keys, and you don't have to worry about being on the wrong layer if you reconfigure the addition key.
Thanx for the lesson, Mike. Don't remember covering that bit of grammar at school. Hmmm, seeds are countable, but not seed. Weird! Less stroking of keys? Isn't English wonderful?
> Thanx for the lesson, Mike. Don't remember covering that bit of grammar at school. Hmmm, seeds are countable, but not seed. Weird! Less stroking of keys? Isn't English wonderful?
Indeed it is. The difference between seed and seeds is subtle but powerful!
One of the reasons English is where it is today is because it owes so much to other languages which it absorbs and makes its own.
French (because of the attempts of the Academie Francaise) will never reach the same stature.
The one thing that you can change about the keyboard layout is in File>Preferences>Note Input - to enter a quarter note type 5 on keypad.
This will help you crossover from Finale as the note durations are now mapped the same. I have then done keyboard shortcuts for articulations etc., similar to the ones I use in Finale - again to make switching between the two programs easier (muscle memory, touch typing and all that).
Richard.
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Sibelius 8.2 ~ Windows 10
Advanced Finale user, Intermediate Sibelius user.