On 08.06.2007 Christopher Smith wrote:
On Jun 8, 2007, at 3:47 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Sibelius 5 has been announced. Looking at the new features briefly, I see they
have added easy cue notes. Perhaps finally Finale will include such, too? I
have been asking for it for years.
Huh? In the Plugins menu under Scoring and Arranging you have Add Cue Notes, which
is just a fewer-featured example of TG Tools Parts>Add Cue Notes. What's the
difference?
You know, I think there is an enormous difference, at least if the new
Easy Cue Notes in Sibelius work the way they seem to work.
The Finale implementations work by actually working around the
limitations of layers, which are very inadequate to be used for Cue
notes in the first place. The mentioned plugins do make some of these
work arounds a little easier to handle, but they are still very clumsy
to work. I have asked for better cue notes integration for years. I am
not again going to elaborate how I think this should be done, but part
of it would be to have a new, independent, cue note layer, which can
hold mirrors of real parts as well as independent notes.
I have completely given up from using the smart cue notes plugin, it
seems to cause me more problems than it is worth. The simpler version
sort of works, but so much extra work is required afterwards that I
sometimes wonder why we have a computer for this at all, I would be
quicker writing the cues in by hand.
BTW, as far as I am concerned, Cues simply aren't functional for linked
parts. Everytime I tried this I ended up saving a separate parts score,
as anything else just cost me time but eventually showed unsolvable
problems.
It seems that the Sibelius approach is different and more adequate. If
it is, I am sure we will see something like this no later than Fin2k9.
As far as the other changes in Sibelius 5 go: It seems that Sibelius has
done what we asked Make Music to do: An update which repairs bugs and
fixes all the little things which are problematic. I really, really
wished MakeMusic would do exactly that, too. I'd happily pay for such an
update. Fin2k7 is a nightmare to work with, it has reached a critical
mass of bugs and problems which is unacceptable, and almost impossible
to work with.
Johannes
And Sibelius has finally added Scroll View (called Panorama), the equivalent of
Staff Styles (for instrument changes), made the code Universal Binary, allowed
advanced page layout, allowed Plugins to be undoable.... in short, it seems for
once to be playing catchup with Finale, rather than vice-versa!
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