Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 06 Aug 2005, at 5:49 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Darcy James Argue schrieb:
Yes, but that's by design -- to prevent people from assigning
staves to instruments that are not included in GPO, and then
complaining that they don't play back correctly.
That's ridiculous. As I said before, notation is obviously becoming a
minor feature in Finale.
I disagree, but regardless... if you want the Setup Wizard to work the
old way, just don't use the GPO instruments in the Setup Wizard. For
your purposes, it sounds like it would be less work to configure GPO
manually afterwards.
[snip]
While the notation features aren't going backwards (i.e. being reduced),
compared to the huge changes in playback features obviously aimed at a
sequencer-oriented user base, the notation is becoming more relatively
minor than it used to be.
Notation used to be the major focus of all upgrades, and the addition of
playback features were of the "oh by the way we also . . . " even the
inclusion of the smartmusic soundfont playback capability.
But with this version the playback features have become the major focus,
with any notation-oriented improvements being relegated to the "oh by
the way we also . . ."
So the balance between notational excellence and playback quality is
rapidly becoming more 50-50 in importance, rather than the 80-20 it used
to be back around version 3.5 when I came into the Finale fold.
Which means that relatively speaking, notation is becoming more minor in
importance than it was.
It almost seems as if either MakeMusic can't think of things which need
improvement in notation (hard to believe, given the suggestions which
members of this list alone have submitted) or MakeMusic has realized
that with the code base it already has, there isn't much room for
further improvements in notational capabilities possible without a total
rewrite, something it can't afford to do.
In either case, the publicity surrounding this upgrade has most
definitely focused on the playback rather than the notation, which
represents a major shift for the company.
--
David H. Bailey
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