On Jul 6, 2005, at 10:02 AM, David W. Fenton wrote:
You know, MOTU's Composer's Mosaic was designed this way, and was the reason I went with it instead of Finale in 1990. Mosaic gave the user the ability to create as many "views" of his/her music as wanted--either scroll views or page views--and all were contained within a single file. One could open any or all views, and then toggle between them. You could put together a scroll view of just the woodwinds, for example. You could have a concert score and a transposed score in the same file, and of course all of the parts, either transposed or concert. Where MOTU dropped the ball was the fact that any change made anywhere affected everywhere else. Tweaking the score to make it look right screwed up the parts, and vice versa. We users had to end up creating two files--one for parts and the other for the score. Besides that, the program was really buggy and needed a lot of work. Unfortunately (for us Mosaic users), MOTU introduced Digital Performer at about the same time, and eventually virtually all of their R&D went into that program, and, even though we users tried to get them not to, MOTU abandoned Mosaic altogether (although they still sell it). My report on Mosaic is still on my website: <http://hometown.aol.com/txstnr/index11.html> in case anyone is interested in reading it. Lon ******************************************** Lon Price, Los Angeles |
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