--- Owain Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What market IS MakeMusic focussing on? A lot of the > uncertainty here is > that we don't know whether there's a real commitment > to engravers, or to > serious composers, because most of the 'advances' or > of no relevance to > these groups. > _______________________________________________ MakeMusic is focusing on composers/arrangers, educators, students, engravers, and church musicians - not necessarily in that order. I believe the company takes in most of its money from the composers and educational crowd. Engravers, while a much smaller group, are critical for the success of Finale because they are key in setting Finale's reputation. The number of features dedicated to engravers is highly disproportional in the engravers favor. One thing I've never really brought up, I encourage you all to be creative in thinking about features that would help both you and the vast majority of Finale users. I have a few features in mind that I'm not willing to talk about openly, but I think there are still features, not implemented in any notation program, that could vastly increase the work flow for engravers and virtually everyone else who uses Finale. I know it can be frustrating to wait for years and never see the particular things you've asked for get implemented. And it may be a long time before MakeMusic gets around to improving the particular area that would save you time. But there are some aspects of the program that almost everyone has to use, and I think looking for ways to improve efficiency in those areas is a great approach - after all, time is time. If you save time in part A you get to the annoying stuff in part B more quickly. It's great that MakeMusic can focus features on the engravers because of their importance - but it's a lot better when the features that help the engravers can also help the majority of the users. Regards, Tyler __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
