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Post by Bob Porter on Aug 31, 2017 18:56:47 GMT
Mike,
I'll check around.
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Post by Bob Porter on Aug 31, 2017 19:04:06 GMT
Mike,
Near as I can figure, what you want is in the Edit Symbols section of the manual. There are instructions on how to add a new symbol.
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Post by Mike Hewer on Sept 1, 2017 13:34:30 GMT
Thanks for looking Bob. I guess I will have to make the symbols outside of Sib. and import them in. Shame you cant combine symbols within the software and then use them with one click - perhaps someone should devise a plug-in for that....
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Post by king2b on Sept 26, 2017 14:17:30 GMT
It seems that the recent upgrade to 8.6 gave magnetic glissandi and little else. They are going to have to do some serious upgrading to get any more money from me.
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Post by Bob Porter on Sept 26, 2017 14:38:36 GMT
Thanks for looking Bob. I guess I will have to make the symbols outside of Sib. and import them in. Shame you cant combine symbols within the software and then use them with one click - perhaps someone should devise a plug-in for that.... AS I understand it, the software to write plugins is available. You've got lost of time
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Post by socrates on Sept 29, 2017 22:50:57 GMT
Just because I got a surface 3 over a year ago and mainly just to use it with stuffpad here are my impressions so far: 1. I regret I did not go for surface pro, although double the money it is probably worth it for the enhanced use of stuffpad it offers. 2. Stuffpad extra instruments are rather expensive. I only got a nylon guitar sample which surprisingly was lacking in the standard pack and it costed 5 pounds. I find its lack of human voices and some other standard instruments a bit frustrating. 3. Staffpad has a few descent sounds in the standard pack, ie strings WW, etc. 4. Staffpad is a marvelous intuitive programme for hand writing and although not including some desirable symbols at the moment, it is bound to improve with time, as the people behind it are musicians who want to help other musicians. Only once I conducted its main creator regarding a microsoft generated problem really and desppite that he was quite helpful and quick in his reply. 5. Whatever went wrong with my stuffpad in the last year was related to the new stupid and patronizing policies that microsoft has enforced on all of us since windows 10. Whenever my surface decides to do one of those stupid automatic windows updates without my permission, the whole tablet losses its sound and the stuffpad does not play (the playback line does not move), but you can still notate pieces with it and extract them as xml for other programmes. Of course I have to reset the system after every windows update in order to get back the sound. All in all and considering all other programmes that I use on the surface I get the impression (very strongly) that microsoft is the major partner in the ownership of my machine and I the minor one, let's say like in a 70-30 % partnership. (f*** off Microsoft, the money was all mine). Finally, I would agree that the need for pencil and manuscript paper has diminished very much with this combination of hardware and software. I use surface and stuffpad every day on the beach presently on a sunbed (but the holidays soon finish), but I want to advice every one to print hard copies (on actual paper) as often as possible of whatever they write, even a simple melody or harmony phrase and never trust anything digital. If I had not done that in the past, I would probably have lost more than half of my life's work by now. PS. Mike, what do I have to do to use Sibelius with pad and pen? Do I need to buy more equipment/fork more money out to Avid?
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Post by Bob Porter on Sept 30, 2017 0:58:40 GMT
Socrates,
Surface = app driven tablet. Much like and Android tablet or iPad.
Surface Pro = Software driven computer in tablet form. This is what you will need to run Sibelius 8, which is supposed to allow note input with a stylus on touch screen devices. 8 GBs of ram (Avid claims 4 will work) and as large internal storage as you can afford. The sound library is some 35 GBs. I have four W10 computers and have none of the issues you seem to have. As far as your surface goes, Yup, pretty much you have to go with what MS offers. So, yes, they own you.
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