Tyler Turner wrote:
[snip]
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.
Amen to that! And linked scores/parts would help everybody because they
could go from a score that plays back (wonderfully with the GPO sounds
in the new version, mixed incredibly well with the new mixer) to printed
parts ready for rehearsal almost instantaneously, instead of what is
required these days, spending a lot of time on each extracted part to
get the layout correct. Then if any changes are needed to the score,
they have to be hand-entered into the parts. How would eliminating that
not help the majority of users?
I find it difficult to believe that features which have been added
"dedicated to engravers" are not helpful to ALL users of a notation
program -- anything which has made a professional engraver's job easier
has also made getting quality notation onto paper easier and better for
anybody who uses Finale for notation, even the casual composer or
arranger or school teacher or student.
And if somebody isn't using Finale for notation, what are they using it for?
So I find it disingenuous to claim that engravers have received a
disproportionate share of features -- Finale does, after all, bill
itself as "The Art of Music Notation" (on the manuals I have) and from
MakeMusic's own web-site: "The world's best-selling and easiest-to-use
software for composing, arranging, teaching and publishing..."
Then to tell those of us who are interested primarily in the notational
features and features which make the turning of hand-written manuscript
or music which is in our heads into printed music that represents the
highest levels of music engraving that we have received a
disproportional number of features aimed at us makes me wonder who else
is using Finale and what they are doing with it, if not using the
notational, get-the-music-to-paper, core functionality of Finale.
I can understand that some may be stopping before the paper stage, and
only getting the notation into the computer, but it's still the notation
that they are basing everything on.
Mixers and GPO and record-directly-to-audio-file don't matter one bit
before the notation is entered.
So tell me again how engravers alone out of the varied number of Finale
users have gotten disproportionate amounts of features -- which features
are only aimed at engravers and don't help anybody else?
?
--
David H. Bailey
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