John T Sylvanis wrote:
Johannes,
I built my tape recorders. But then I didn't have to make a living :-).
I know, notation software is not trivial. But asking for the obvious
isn't trivial either. Yeah, one can find all kinds of loopholes:
the market is too small, the program is complicated, the programming
expensive, marketing costs, advertising. Surely, but these are the risks
of running a business. I remember when selling computer software. People
Yes they are the risks of running a business. Isn't it interesting that
of the four leading notation programs (Score, a DOS warhorse that keeps
on ticking, Graphire Music Press, Sibelius, and Finale) NONE of them
feels the market will bear the expense of including what you want included?
Isn't it also interesting that all the major sequencer applications have
decided not to go very far with their notation capabilities?
For so many varied players in this small niche market to have decided
that integration beyond a basic level wouldn't prove financially
worthwhile enough for them to take the plunge, I would guess that there
really isn't much of a market for what you are asking for.
And it isn't for want of end users asking, pleading for such functions
-- many is the thread we've had on this list over the years about how
horrible hyperscribe is in Finale, and how horrible the midi-import
function is for any sort of complex rhythms. Lots of feature requests
have gone to MakeMusic asking for these areas to be improved. Very
little improvement has been forthcoming. There has to be a reason.
were constantly asking why they had to buy a separate word processor, a
separate spread sheet, why the database wasn't communicating with the
spreadsheet (a very obvious question), etc. Remember Word Perfect? Very
good processor. It still exists, but it's just a word processor. Word
Star and other single packages fell by the wayside once Microsoft got
their act together.
Microsoft Word is just a word processor. WordPerfect now comes in a
suite just like Word does. WordPerfect has the same table functions,
importing database and spreadsheet data stuff that Word has. I'm not
sure what your point is?
With the advent and continual improvement of MusicXML as a sort of
lingua franca of music applications, perhaps there will be little need
for an all-encompassing single package. Sequence your stuff in a
program streamlined for such a purpose such as Sonar, then save as
musicXML and import that into Finale or Sibelius for notation.
But for better or worse, the available applications are what they are.
Take your pick and use what you can. Short of being Warren Buffet or
Bill Gates or Paul Allen and being able to hire your own development
team to give you what you want, you're stuck with what's available. :-)
--
David H. Bailey
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