Robert Patterson American Soldier Quotations

But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it depend heavily on it. That certainly includes me.

Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the one I use the most. Due to limitations in how plugins can interact with Finale, Mass Copy has a somewhat unusual user interface.

I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.

Suprisingly, one of the most complex pieces of code is the code to determine where a note is in the staff. Finale stores notes as relative scale positions in the current key.

I started using Finale at version 1.0 when it first came out in c. 1988.

Screen rotation is a combination of software and hardware that allows you to change a monitor between portrait and landscape modes.

Although Patterson Beams was not my first plug-in, I knew from the beginning that I would write it, because the single biggest time consuming factor for me was editing each beam manually.

Patterson Beams was probably the most tricky. Even now, every time I change it is worrisome because of the possible unintended consequences.

When I first began working on music in portrait orientation, it was one of the most liberating experiences I've ever had in Finale.

I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower.

I began developing the plug-in collection because of several severe shortcomings in Finale that were causing me many hours of tedious manual work.