Wait! Even if there is consensus that Fin2k8 is a buggy mess, why isn't the
obvious alternative an earlier version of Finale? David Bailey writes about
Sib5 as if there wasn't a learning curve involved. Well, David's a very smart
fellow, but nowadays there's a learning curve involved in buying a new
television.
Wouldn't the proper equation be: time saved using existing Finale skills
minus time saved not having to learn a new program? That should give you a plus or
minus sign at the end. What am I missing here?
--David Lawrence
Well, in my case I mentioned in my initial post on this topic that I was
not able to go backwards. That is, after "upgrading", in this instance
to NI2, and not being able to get Garritan and NI2 to work correctly
with WinFin08, that going back and trying to get Garritan Studio and
WinFin06 to play was just not happening anymore.
Also, the prospect of "waiting for 2009" is just ridiculous, folks.
Problems need to be fixed, now.
Since my initial sob story, I continued to have other system problems,
so I had Windows Vista removed from my system. I am now carefully
restoring software and files to my system.
I had said I was going to first install Fin06 and Garritan Studio,
before trying 08 and NI2 again, but my savvy son volunteered to install
some things for me and immediately forgot those instructions. He
installed Fin08, GPO, GJABB, and downloaded NI2, and - wonder of wonders
- initial results are positive. I am actually getting some things to
work, slowly but surely. I don't like the NI2 interface, but some
things seem to work better than Garritan Studio, I think, such as
volumes seem to come in better the first time.
Tell me, folks, is all of the latter bunch of software (Fin08, GPO,
GJABB, NI2), Vista compatible, or isn't it? I now realize that Vista
was causing me numerous problems - some of it, it seems to me, with
software that had been working OK with Vista for several months before
the problems started. Is Vista a time bomb?
Oh well, I am enjoying XP much more NOW than I did THEN.
Raymond Horton
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