Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote:
[snip]>
Speaking of lesser-known corners, how about the Transcription feature
and the Custom Key Signature tool? Both of these could be quite useful
except that you need a degree in crytography to decifer how to actually
use them.
(I suppose the Transcription Feature is now integrated into the Studio
View in Finale 2006?)
No, to the best of my knowledge and experience, the studio view of
Fin2006 is simply adding the mixing capabilities (volume level and
panning and patch selection) to the scroll view. Transcription tool is
still separate.
But all this repeated discussion of these exotic parts of Finale that
many people don't use because of their crappy UI, wouldn't it be nice if
for Finale2007 they actually made one of their programmers tackle each
of them and make the UI be 1) logical, 2) efficient, 3) consistent
between these things, 4) easy to understand, 5) well-documented?
They've added playback features to satisfy those for whom playback is
very important in Fin2006. Notation features could use some additions
but most importantly, wouldn't it be nice if Finale used the next
version to actually repair long-standing problems and address
long-standing complaints, such as how hard it is to use some of these
features which have been in the program since forever but which nobody
uses (or not very many use) because nobody can figure them out?
The program has enough bells and whistles (even if it doesn't have any
saxophones in its crown-jewel addition for 2006) to last for a while. A
good house-cleaning and making things actually work and be easy to use
and understand is long overdue.
--
David H. Bailey
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