You're absolutely right! Let's demand that Coda remove any further midi development from their wish-list. NOT!
Finale is a music program -- not merely a word-processor for notation. Finale is a lot more like a full-fledged page-layout program than it is like Word in your analogy. Being deprived of being able to hear full, accurate playback of all notation is like a page layout program putting the word GRAPHIC inside a big box instead of letting you see the entire page with ALL its contents. Music is NOT just images on a page the way a magazine is. Music is about SOUND as well, and I for one don't see why people have such a hard time wanting to be able to HEAR the music from inside a music program as well as SEE it. Finale is NOT just a page-layout program for engravers, it is also a tool used by arrangers and composers who want to hear how what they are working on sounds, and for many others, the ability to proof-listen to the notation (ALL the notation, including dynamic marks such as crescendi) helps to be sure it is all located where it should be and marked as it should be. So accurate midi playback is not just some fancy add-on, it is a useful tool. Goodness knows there has been a lot of my development dollars spent for notational aspects of Finale that I will never use, yet I don't begrudge those to the Finale users who DO use them. Why should you begrudge some development dollars to those of us who want to be able to HEAR as we work and expect to get realistic playback? A lot of Finale's midi problems carry over into their exported midi files, (let's see, now, where was that crescendo that looks so nice on-screen but is not at all present in my midi file as I work on it in Cakewalk?) so a lot has to be done from scratch all over again in a different program. But if you don't think any more money should be spent in developing midi in Finale, then why do you think it should be spent to get midi working under OSX? Why is YOUR midi wish valid and those of others less valid? Harold Steinhardt wrote: > Exactly! Finale is a NOTATION program with rudimentary midi > capabilities - it is not a sequencer. When you want minute detail over midi > playback, dump the midi data to a program designed to do that, like > Logic or Performer. > > Use the right tool for the right job. > > All this complaining about midi in Finale is like MS Word users > complaining that they can't easily produce their magazine layout in Word. > > Please, Coda, do not waste your precious resources on added midi > (except to get basic midi functioning in OSX). Keep improving the > notational aspects of the program for which it was designed. > > Harold > > > On Saturday, July 13, 2002 10:52 PM, John Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>Finale is, in my opinion, the best music notation program currently >>available. It's playback performance is limited: you can aurally >>proof-read your work, and with a small amount of effort you can even >> > >>produce a modest demo. >> >>I believe that when Finale's notation capabilities are perfected is >>the time to start concentrating on improving its playback >>facilities. >> >>Regards >>John >>_______________________________________________ >>Finale mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
