Lon Price wrote:
For years I begged MOTU to first fix all of the bugs in their notation program, Mosaic (which had "dynamic part linking," BTW), and then roll it into Digital Performer, creating an all-in-one notation-sequencer-audio recording program. Why did I want this? Because I had to do all of my work involving MIDI twice, if I started a project in DP, that is. That remains the case to this day, only I gave up on Mosaic about 6 years ago, and bought Finale. If I start a project in DP, I have to start from scratch in Finale to create my printed material. I'm currently working on a book and play-along CD of alto sax duets with rhythm section accompaniment. I need only to print out the sax parts. I do the sax parts in DP as MIDI (replacing them later with real saxes), print the parts from Quickscribe (DP's notation editor) and work from that to enter the music into Finale. This means I'm doing the work twice. Why do I have to enter all those notes twice? Because when I use Finale to open a SMF created in DP, the result is such a mess that it's just easier, and much faster, to start over from scratch. This is really a nuisance--why should I have to do this? I've asked the guys at MOTU about it, and all I get is, "DP handles MIDI differently than a notation program. Rather than feeling that you're doing your work twice, you should think of it as doing half your work in DP and half in Finale." But when I'm entering exactly the same notes in two different programs, that's doing my work twice, no matter how anyone looks at it.
And this inability of Finale to properly import all standard midi files has been broken since I've been using the program (version 3.5).
MakeMusic has added tons of new features, tweaked things endlessly, added terrific playback capabilities, but they won't fix some basic but broken aspects of the program.
Maybe all the music programmers are searching for the philosopher's stone of programming where they can have fantastic midi capabilities AND fantastic notation capabilities.
I don't think it's gonna happen, though. -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
