Randolph Peters wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the overwhelming consensus
> is that Finale 2008 has all the problems of 2007 and then some,
without any new features that would make the pain more tolerable. (I
know there are new features, but do they improve the day to day
experience of Finale?)
> I'll wait until the first bug-fix to reevaluate buying Finale 2008.
Kurt Gnos wrote:
It seems people who write these kinds of topics don't read the rest of the
Finale maillist.
While I sympathize with switching to Sibelius, I've been doing that for
years, I must admit that I find Finale's new features, even if keeping the
bugs, worth the upgrade. The new "combined" "arrow/mass mover" tool and the
more "logical" menus have already saved me a lot of hours work.
The "less new" linked parts are worth weeks or months.
I've tried the Finale 2008 demo and have monitored both Finale
discussion lists carefully. Those who write favorably about Fin 2008
have not convinced me that it is worth it and I was hoping someone
might have an argument or point to make that I hadn't considered.
Having more logical menus is always a good idea, especially for new
users, but experienced users tend to use macros for those things
anyway. Rearranged menus just means having to spend more time
changing the macros. No new functionality is added.
I can see that the new arrow/mass mover tool could be handier than
the old way of selecting things, but again, with macros, changing
from choosing partial measures or whole measures for the mass mover
is an easy keystroke.
I hope that the linked parts will one day become a mature, flexible
feature, but it is my understanding that nothing new was added to it
since Fin 2007. Linked parts needed another level of development.
Finale 2008 doesn't meet that need.
I'm not for or against switching to Sibelius, but the stalled
development of Finale does make me look at it with more interest.
-Randolph Peters
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