Of course MakeMusic, which makes SmartMusic, has a couple of absolutely
stupid bugs in their SmartMusic 10 program for Mac, like the inability
to get it to sort a column. 3 some months later.......still no fix. I
also asked them about when their promised "60 new titles a month" for
SmartMusic was going to happen. Haven't heard a peep from them.
I imagine that the new version of Finale, 2008, probably produces files
that can't be read in the current version of SmartMusic as well. I think
it wasn't until they released the new version of SmartMusic in April
that files made with Finale 2007 could be read. They didn't even bother
to try to make the previous version of SmartMusic read them. For some 9
months? They simply said "use Finale 2006".
Same company. It is sad really. They don't seem to want to get their
products to work correctly.
Steve Schow wrote:
I've been riding the fence for a long time. I still can't decide. Its not a cut and dried issue. This may sound silly, but I just can't get around Sibelius' insistence on showing a full page layout with margins (even with the new panarama view). Finale's scroll view is much better. Sounds like a sily differentiator, but that's just me. They both have bugs. I sure hear a lot of complaining for a long time about certain bugs in Finale that apparantly are commonly experienced and after years, MM has not addressed them.
I work for a software company, and we address major bugs like that IMMEDIATELY.
As a software engineer, I can't even stand the thought that something I did
may have a bug. When I find out there is a bug in my stuff, I will stay up
until midnight to deliver a fix, even if my boss doesn't write it into the
schedule. But that's just me. Its troubling to me that MM has not addressed
bugs which people on the forums have been SHOUTING about for years, including
people like Robert Patterson. You would think they would listen to him.
The cross grade to Sib cost is $199, BTW. Not a bad price, but it is double
the price of upgrading to Fin08, and you will have to learn a new program, not
to mention your existing Fin scores will not be compatible with it. So think
long and hard about it. Sib has bugs too, don't be fooled into thinking
otherwise.
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