Robert Patterson Quotes

"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."
- Robert Patterson
(Related: Limitations)

"In an organic system you don't waste anything. We need to educate the consumer to accept a tiny blemish on an orange."
- Robert Patterson
(Related: Waste)

"If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings."
- Robert Patterson
(Related: Society, Food)

"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."
- Robert Patterson
(Related: Time, Beginning, First)

"I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer."
- Robert Patterson
(Related: Computer)

"Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward."
- Robert Patterson
(Related: People, Americans, Native Americans)

"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."
- Robert Patterson
(Related: Key)

"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."
- Robert Patterson
(Related: Quick)

"I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower."
- Robert Patterson
(Related: Problems, World)