On 06 Jul 2005, at 12:51 AM, Tyler Turner wrote:
Generally many of you haven't been happy with the
mass-market features introduced in Finale. Come up
with one or two of your own that MakeMusic has the
ability to implement and can be marketed to a wide
audience
Tyler,
We did.
A while back, many of the people on this list came up with a
reasonably detailed plan for implementing a feature that looks very
much like Sibelius's Dynamic Parts. Between us, we decided exactly how
it ought to work, and how it COULD work using an existing Finale
mechanism (Special Part Extraction). I passed the results of that
discussion on to Coda -- I'm sure some of the other people involved did
the same.
Now, I know there were pressing, more immediate issues that needed to
be solved -- OS X migration, performance, and playback chief among them
-- and I'm not faulting Coda for being unable to do everything at once.
And I think a lot of people on this list are not giving Coda enough
credit for the engraver-specific features that WERE introduced in
Fin2k4 and Fin2k5 -- especially the new expression positioning options
(which are unbelievably great) and the tuplets (which are a vast
improvement, but still need a little work).
BUT... having said all that, it's still a little galling to see
Sibelius stealing "our" thunder like that. I think we came up with an
excellent plan for dynamic score-part linking in Finale (one that, I
should add, looks very very similar to the one Sibelius implemented),
and it is disappointing that Sibelius got there first. Maybe it wasn't
realistic to cram that into Fin2k6 (which looks to be a very
substantial update) but still, it's always frustrating to be left
behind.
- Darcy
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--- Richard Yates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well,
whatever you are doing ain't working so well.
Please don't misunderstand - I'm a former employee of
MakeMusic. I'm not one now, and I don't speak
officially for them. I'm trying to help out by giving
you some ideas for how you can have a better chance to
make Finale better for yourselves.
FIX THE BUGS. Is that creative enough?
Richard Yates
Not unless you're talking specifically about bugs you
know that most users run into. Most users don't run
into bugs frequently. I'm not trying to insult anyone
here. I'm just saying that MakeMusic tends to get
requests from engravers that would specifically help
engravers and few other people. There are very notable
exceptions. But by in large, that's the way it is.
Most bug fixes fall under this (some don't). I just
want to encourage people to send in specific
suggestions for features that would benefit a lot of
people. And the more people on the bandwagon for a
particular feature, the better.
Generally many of you haven't been happy with the
mass-market features introduced in Finale. Come up
with one or two of your own that MakeMusic has the
ability to implement and can be marketed to a wide
audience.
Tyler
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