It saddens me as well. They're trying to compete with Sibelius for the
school market, and (to their mind) make composition on the computer
easier to teach and do with these features. I, like probably most
people on this list, would rather have a program that worked really
well, but was limited to notation and possibly MIDI playback (like
score) that have a programm that attempted to be Cakewalk or a
sequencer from the notational rather than the performance aspect.
Sequencer truly offer notation-based input. It's lousy, but there.
I didn't get the 2005 update, and I doubt I'll get the 2006. It makes
me kinda sad.
Am 23.06.2005 um 06:56 schrieb Robert Patterson:
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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