On 12 Aug 2006 at 7:17, dhbailey wrote: > I just wish that Finale could come up with some major new notation > feature FIRST, instead of always waiting for Sibelius to do it and > then see how they can reverse-engineer it and adapt it to Finale.
The speed with which MakeMusic implemented such a huge feature (and it really is GIGANTIC) suggests to me that it was something they'd been planning for long before the release of Sibelius 4. The other thing that strikes me is how many of the features of it so closely track the discussions we had on this forum about how we'd want Finale to do linked parts after we'd all looked at Sibelius 4. I don't know that we came up with particularly unique ideas, but almost all of the concerns raised here that I recall seem to have been addressed, with a few small areas left that still could be better. This is enough to make me contemplate an upgrade, even though I'm still quite adamant about the key escrow/activation issue. Dennis B-K caved, so I might, also. I'm on WinFin2K3, so I'd be getting a number of really significant upgraded features (HP and expressions are the two that come to mind; GPO would be of no use to me as I haven't the computing power to use it), so it would definitely justify the upgrade price to me. To me, this is a very significant upgrade all by itself, heavy on real improvements and light on bells and whistles. This is the kind of release of Finale I wish MM would do more often. It would definitely get more of my upgrade $$ if that were the case. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
