Hallelujah Dennis, you're making a hell of a lot of sense and couldn't have expressed my thoughts better. I think integration will happen because the market will mature one day and then someone will HAVE to make a move to entice people to buy the product of their new, epochal, idea which has been done by Microsoft 20 years before, or just muddle along, or merge with a competitor, or worse, close their doors. It happens more often than not in mature industry markets. I hope it's just a matter of time. But, like I said, I may be proven wrong. Then so be it.
John. On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:36:13 -0400 Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 06:18 PM 10/5/06 -0400, John T Sylvanis wrote: > >Maybe I want too much, but I think my quest is not at all > unreasonable > >when suggesting unification such that a package comports GOOD > notation, > >GOOD sequencing and GOOD sapling on par with GOOD sequencing > software, > >GOOD notation software and GOOD sampling software, and all of > these > >COMPLETE. > > As probably the noisiest member of the list who has asked for this > for > years (specifically Finale-Sonar integration and before that > Finale-Cakewalk integration), I can say that it isn't going to > happen for > some very good reasons. > > The audiences are distinct enough that the simultaneous market would > be > uneconomical, and would certainly *not* end with that request. How > about > more 'logical' (to some folks) integrations first -- > Sonar-Acid-Reaktor-SAW? Finale-InDesign-Illustrator-Audition? There > is no > end to possible integrations; for example, I would much prefer that > Sonar > integrate algorithmic plugins and make itself a VST host. > > Plus, each program has an enormous distance to go completing basic > functions before expanding into highly advanced areas. Consider that > Finale > has just made the move to linked parts, and Sonar doesn't handle Gig > files. > And Sonar doesn't run natively on Mac. And speaking of platforms, > coding > for Linux would be preferable to many professional users ready to > jump from > Windows before Vista arrives, way ahead of integrating an > extraneous > engraving program in one or an extraneous DAW with the other. > > That's just a start. Would it be good to integrate them? Who knows. > The > number of bugs in Finale, along with its antediluvian graphics > handling, > would not be my first choices were I a DAW software company. > > Dennis > > > > -- > > Please participate in my latest project: > /waam/ > My blog: > http://maltedmedia.com/bathory/waam-blog.html > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
