Chuck Israels wrote:
On Apr 11, 2007, at 12:49 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
Parts sometimes respace themselves, wrongly, too, with collisions.
Mass Edit 4 solves it, but why in the first place?
Christopher,
I find this happens when I copy a layout from linked part to linked part
using TG tools. I have just gotten into the habit of respacing each
newly opened part.
I actually watched an Eb in the trumpet staff change itself into a D#
while I was editing a tuba staff in Speedy Entry. Make Music confirms
there is a bug with enharmonics in Speedy, but this is out of control!
Amen - this is a mess. I can't tell when this will happen. It doesn't
happen much, but it does happen, and it creates chaos.
And it will only get worse as the marketing department drives the
upgrades, leaving the developers unable to fix current bugs while
forcing them to add worthless new features.
I wish MakeMusic would come out with at least one complete upgrade cycle
where no bells and whistles are added. It would be so nice for the
developers to be able to drive the upgrade cycle! I remain convinced
that the development team is very talented and very dedicated and the
new bugs we notice and the long-standing bugs which remain unfixed are
there because the development team isn't allowed to do their jobs properly.
I am hopeful that Finale2008 will have Linked-Score/Parts v2.0 (which
isn't really a new bell/whistle but will be a fixing of the current
shortcomings in that feature) and nothing else new. No new playback
engine added, no new entry method, nothing other than bug fixes and
current-feature improvements.
But I realize that what I want, MakeMusic's marketing department
couldn't care less about -- they're busy devising worthless new features
to paste onto the sagging skeleton of Finale in order to attract new
buyers, little realizing that there's a new batch of potential users
each year as each new year's worth of musicians reaches a certain level
and needs or wants a computer notation program.
They should make the existing stuff work and forget the new features.
People will need to buy notation programs and there's no way they can
expand their marketplace outside the musician marketplace -- physics
majors who aren't musicians just don't need a notation program. But the
musicians need a program which works and which doesn't introduce more
new bugs than features with each new version.
--
David H. Bailey
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