Hi Robert,
I am in agreement with you about the direction of the developments.
I think people like you (and me) think we are "the market" for MM.
Unfortunately, we are probably a small portion of it. Still, there
are folks at MM who would like to see us satisfied, and they do want
to have the best notation program. It must be a struggle for them
too. All we can do is continue to ply them with mail and calls
asking for what we need.
(I don't use any of the "sequencing" software myself.)
Chuck
On Jun 23, 2005, at 6:56 AM, Robert Patterson wrote:
This issue of long-standing bugs being fixed points up a feature
listed on the website that greets me with dismay. That is the
"Studio View & Powerful Mixer" feature. Some on this list are
already salivating at the thought, but for all its possible value,
I believe it is a rueful step.
That is because it is a step out of the notation world into the
crowded sequencer market. If Finale tries to be all things, it will
be none. MM is a tiny company. The introduction of sequencer
features risks the possibility that most of their resources the
next few years will be devoted to enhancing those. I am extremely
concerned that we may have seen the virtual end of notation-related
enhancements for a long while. The 2006 release already apparently
provides essentially none, at least based on the new features list
at the website. Moving around the items in the Copy/Paste UI and
calling it "engraver" hardly makes it a significant notation-
related improvement. And any time a UI gets shifted around, I
wonder what feature(s) might have been taken away.
The new plugins look like they could be moderately nice, but
plugins by definition cannot add new functionality. At their best,
they automate the old functionality. This is probably the case with
new plugins like "Split Measure" and "Mid-measure repeats",
although one hopes there might be bug fixes for some of the long-
standing problems related to, e.g., split measures, or minor
functional tweaks to make the plugins' jobs a bit easier.
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Yates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 03:41 AM
To: 'Coda Finale Support', 'Finale list'
Subject: [Finale] Finale 2006
I am far more interested in whether existing bugs have been fixed
than in
new features. The web site lists new features. Is there a list
somewhere of
things that were broken in Finale2005 but have been fixed in
Finale2006?
Richard Yates
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