bill wrote:
Hi gang,
Chuck got it right concerning "Update Layout" (command-\ on a Mac).
Being a casual lurker, I must admit that this forum is the best I've
seen, and those who read the postings here are being given first class
advice for free. Bravo!
However, after listening to you all, I am even more leery of 2k6. I'm
still on 2k5 and the Update Layout issue should not be an issue since it
was never a problem since Fin 98 (ish) up until recently. This is only
one of many that MM doesn't seem to want to fix or even recognize. It
makes me wonder who does their beta-testing.
I am wondering of this group here might band together and lobby to have
MM spend the paltry 1% of their development resources to get it right
for us and be done with it. Or, possibly, encourage them to release a
Finale Pro version without the stupid garbage they've concentrated on in
the past few versions. I'm getting really frustrated with MM, as I'm
sure most of you are too. Would it make any sense to compile a "master
wish list" and present it to MM as a group? Sorry to vent...
MM's main focus is to keep on building their market, which means new
customers as well as keeping continuing customers. They make far more
on new sales than upgrades, since we all get the same product but the
new users pay a lot more for it.
And that means adding more headline-worthy bells and whistles.
Everybody was so ga-ga over the GPO and how it is integrated into Finale
that I think a lot of beta-testers must have concentrated on that aspect
of the program and failed to put it through the normally rigorous testing.
The developers know what's wrong with the program, what bugs are
longstanding, which annoyances have been there for years, but they don't
drive what happens with the program. And this "upgrade every year at
the same time" schedule is wreaking havoc with the developers' ability
to tackle long-standing bugs, since the new features have to at least
appear to work (has anybody gotten micnotator to work for anything more
than simple melodies?) so the marketing department can push them at
trade shows and out in the trenches and in advertising.
Many of us who have been using the program for a long time (I've been
using it for around 12 years) have sent in lots of bug-fix requests,
lots of improvement suggestions, and only some of them have gotten any
attention.
One thing to keep in mind, and this has become obvious every recent
release -- new code sometimes makes old bugs which have been
successfully squashed raise their ugly heads again and need to be beaten
down again in an interim update patch.
Which is long overdue now, and will still probably not resolve all these
issues.
--
David H. Bailey
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