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Title: Spacebar
Post by: DzA on 2005-01-15 01:14 PM
The only thing I find hard to get used to is the spacebar inserting rests. So many other music programs are configured to start/stop or pause with the spacebar. I wish there was a way around that.
Title: Re: Spacebar
Post by: Don Whitener on 2005-01-15 03:21 PM
Once you use it a while and get used to it, using the spacebar to insert 'space' (otherwise called rests) into the music is actually pretty intuitive.  The programs that use this key to pause and restart playback do so I think just because it is a big, fat, easy to find key... Nothing particularly intuitive about it.  After a bit of use and practice, changing keystrokes between programs generally becomes second nature.
Title: Re: Spacebar
Post by: David Palmquist on 2005-01-15 07:04 PM
There are only so many keys on a keyboard.  I like the spacebar for rests, it makes them very easy to notate when you touch type.  Hit the value on the numeric keypad, then just bounce to the big key without looking.  However, I view NWC as primarily for notaton, and playback features are to me, only a proofreading aid.  Others use the program to create very sophisticated midi files, and compatibility with other sound producing software might be important to them.
Title: Re: Spacebar
Post by: Gree Takko on 2005-01-16 12:14 AM
Last time I was at the Spacebar, my friend was shot by Boba Fett.
Title: Re: Spacebar
Post by: Rob den Heijer on 2005-01-17 09:49 AM
Do they serve good Pangalactic Gargle Blasters there? (42!)
Title: Re: Spacebar
Post by: Arthur Dent on 2005-01-17 11:46 PM
Yes, they do.  Now, I'm off to Stavros Meuller's Beta Club for a quick pint.
Title: Re: Spacebar
Post by: Rob den Heijer on 2005-01-18 09:21 AM
We'll need a Babelfish to explain this to the rest of the forum.
(Mueller... it's really a ΓΌ , notated as u followed by e. You are probably confused by Noteworthy, where you have to type the 9 first, and then Enter, to get a sharp.)
Title: Re: Spacebar
Post by: Arthur Dent on 2005-01-19 04:20 AM
...notated as u followed by e...
No, I just made an error because we are descended from the Golgafrincham...
Title: Re: Spacebar
Post by: Slartibartfast on 2005-01-19 08:56 AM
I always thought I knew what a fiord is. But now they tell me it is a Norwegian motor car.
Title: Re: Spacebar
Post by: David Palmquist on 2005-01-19 09:08 AM
I won't panic, but I always thought it was Slartybarkfast.  I see from the BBC site that I'm wrong.  Sigh, won't be the first time.

Fjord?

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and here for more, much more (too much?) information
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/