Randolph Peters wrote:
I just got an email from MakeMusic that is one of those good news/bad news kind of deals (see below). The good news is that FinMac 2004c restores EPS export and will be available very soon to the general public.
Woohoo!!!
The bad news is that any other fixes are to be left for Finale 2005. Before I go ballistic, I thought I would check with the cooler heads in this forum. Do we have a right to expect fixes for the 2004 versions before coughing up any more money?
Hey, thats part of the business. I write off all my software for business use, so....what is the problem? For something I use everyday paying $120 or so for something better is a good investment to me.....
Haven't used OS 9 in like............forever. Since OS X Finale, I haven't needed to use it.
My thinking is this:
1) FinMac 2004 for system 9 is unusable. Period.
2) FinMac 2004 (a, b, AND c) for OS X is slow and gets slower the longer you use it. Nudging items with the arrow key used to be the fastest way to adjust slurs, expressions and articulations. Now you have to wait and wait. And there are those bugs with multiple files opened which have been well documented here. I could go on...
I found that FinMac 2004b was quite a bit faster on my lowly G4 cube (450Mhz), and I don't have any speed problems with my G4 933 at home. Maybe you need to invest in better hardware? Max out your ram, get a faster hard drive, etc.....
I really think that FinMac 2003 is a more productive tool than 2004 despite the so-called improvements. I'd rather give charity to MakeMusic to keep them alive then to pretend that Finale 2004 was worth the money. How do we know that Finale 2005 will be worth paying for if they can't even fix the biggest problems in 2004?
I think 2004 is way more productive than 2003. The placement of expression placement features alone were worth it for me.
Speed and reliability are the top priorities. Any other new features are secondary concerns. If secondary features violates the first principle then they need to be changed.
Agreed. But I have found both (speed and reliability) not to be an issue.
Finale 2004 may work with OS X, but it does so in a way that is unreliable and slows our productivity way down. I really think we deserve better before paying for what could be another experience in frustration.
Maybe your work, but I find it a joy to use. I own both the PC and Mac versions, and I have to say the Mac version "feels" better and is "more fun" to use than the PC version, even though some things on the PC version are 20 times faster (like transposing EVERYTHING in a big score, or spacing, etc). But then again, my PC is like 2 or 3 times faster than my Mac, so.....
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