Johannes Gebauer wrote:
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David, I am absolutely certain it won't happen. Not unless the way
MakeMusic has been working the last few years will change radically.
Johannes
We've already been told on this list that unless whatever engraving
changes are requested can demonstrably be shown to attract new customers
(in other words, to be requested by non-users, to whom it seems
MakeMusic pays more attention than it does to long-time users), we
haven't a snowball's chance in hell of seeing them implemented.
I'm sure the next version of Finale will have more easily implemented
changing of "skins" like Winamp and other audio playes use.
They're probably working on a major update to micnotator and possibly
expanding the available harmonies available in that auto-harmonizing
plug-in. Maybe they'll even figure out a way to get Band-in-a-Box
styles to generate entire songs for us, becoming effectively the
super-notation-module for PGMusic.
I'll be they're working hard on giving us differently colored noteheads
to satisfy the educational market which works with boom-whacker music.
And probably working on the ability to mix audio tracks with our
notation tracks in the mixer and get them all to play back
simultaneously with an expanded version of GPO (maybe they'll actually
include the jazz instruments for which we currently have to pay extra?)
Any number of upgrades to attract those who like chrome bumpers and are
attracted to shiny things.
I agree with Johannes that things such as house styles (or Finale
style-sheets or whatever they want to call them) which can be altered,
saved, and then can be applied to any Finale file for instantaneous
appearance changes without having to copy the music to a new template
are not things that seem to be on MakeMusic's radar as being helpful in
generating more sales.
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David H. Bailey
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