David W. Fenton wrote: [snip]>
Perhaps many of the people who use playback casually never bothered to figure out how to do some of these things, and that's why they found Finale playback inadequate -- not because Finale playback *was* inadequate, but because their knowledge of how to control Finale playback was pretty much non-existent.
Which brings us back to where the bulk of Finale's development dollars seem to be going -- to quiet those who didn't search deeper to accomplish what they wanted to do but somehow have a bigger impact on the company with their complaints as well as potential new users so they won't have to look deeply into the program to do what's always been possible (or nearly always been possible), rather than to resolve long-standing issues which those who DO use the deeper aspects of the program (such as EPS export in Windows for those who work with desktop publishing applications, or importing complex midi files for notation from clients, or a hyperscribe with a smart breakpoint which moves as the hands move, or scanning music which actually works with anything other than simple music).
Such as GPO playback -- that could very easily have been made much more easy and transparent without actually including GPO with the program. That way those who had actually invested in GPO (how many of them are actually using the included GPO-lite anyway?) could use the two products with no problems, and those of us who aren't the least bit interested in GPO wouldn't have had the fine people at GPO hijack a large part of our upgrade dollars for something we don't use.
But it appears that the development dollars get pointed toward the digging-up-from-the-bowels of certain aspects while leaving others broken or buried.
-- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
