On Jun 20, 2007, at 1:05 PM, John Howell wrote:
And I might also observe that Finale is primarily a notation
program, while MIDI is a set of performance standards. Finale does
not pretend to be a full-featured sequencer, and MIDI was not
designed to produce notation. (Same is true of Sibelius, of
course.) Yes, it would be nice to have one program that satisfies
every user's possible wish list, but is it realistic to expect to
find one at an affordable price, and is it likely that Finale would
be that one when known bugs have gone unaddressed for years?
You are right of course, that nobody wants to sacrifice the
versatility of the notation that Finale offers for sequencing
features, BUT...
("everyone has a big BUT" Pee Wee Herman)
Finale COULD do much better transcribing MIDI files. Cubase Score
(and even Cubase non-score version!), CakeWalk and Digital Performer
all do WAY better than Finale's defaults at transcribing MIDI files
into notation. I have no experience with Logic, but it wouldn't
surprise me either.
I am just talking about getting the lengths of notes right, guessing
tuplets, ignoring small variants in performance, assigning voices to
different staves or stems, you know, all the stuff that gives you
headaches when trying to import a MIDI file.
And before anyone gets started on MIDI files not being notation and
so has no real place in a notation program, well, there are a whole
cartload of MIDI transcriptionists who spend a large part of their
day getting MIDI files from composers and turning them into notation
to be read by live musicians. This is one of the very important
professional functions of a modern notation program, and Finale could
do WAY better with it.
Christopher
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