David Bailey said: <<I recall at least one person who said that he had upgraded to Fin2008 and was very happy with it. (Or did he say 'content' with it?)
At least there was one (and possibly another) over the past 3 weeks or so that have said they're using it quite well.>> And so Les responds: Okay, I'll bite -- I upgraded to '08 (Win) as soon as it was announced. My primary hope was that some of the relatively (IMHO) minor bugs which had plagued '07 would be repaired. My use is probably a little more casual than most on the list - arrangements, original work for my orchestra. Occasionally other outside projects....so my use therefore, may be as concentrated/intensely as many 10 - 12 hours a day for days/weeks on end - and then a week or two with no use whatsoever. Most of my scores are full-orchestral, 22 - 28 staves are the norm. Works (on occasion) as long as an hour or so; usually anything of that size is created as multiple-movement/section files which are later merged. And so, after the initial surprise of the new selection tool - and re-programming my comfort/familiarity to its functionality, I found '08 on the whole to be a positive upgrade. I have now come to really appreciate the selection tool behavior. But: Playback? Nearly never utilize it. But that's where I had a bit of a prob with '08. A friend asked for specific musical cue advice throughout a VERY imminent production of The Taming of the Shrew he was directing and I realized it would probably take me less time to write him an incidental score than it would to pull cues. And he was VERY pleased with the idea of using GPO playback with an original Marsden score :) So far so good. I wrote the score in three days, but then found playback in '08 to be VERY problematic. (Incidentally: WinXP, 2G RAM, Athlon XP 1900+) Really bad dropouts; tempo fluctuations caused by minor score complexities...the GPO playback was unusable to me. I experimented with CPU overload settings, took an axe to polyphony far beyond what I artistically found acceptable - and was eventually able, through much coaxing and compromise - to achieve something acceptable though by now means desireable. Then - just for 'fun', I transcribed one of the brief movements as originally written to 2007 - and bingo! Perfect playback.. Really didn't want to convert the whole score back to '07, and fortunately my friend has the musical discretion of a dead, deaf ox and was thrilled. But I was not. And I didn't pursue the issue of GPO playback because it's only a very occasional need, but still.....would be nice to know what the hell's going on THERE.... Any ideas, anyone? Best - and eager to try the Sibelius crossgrade as soon as time allows a bit of experimentation.... Les Les Marsden Founding Music Director and Conductor, The Mariposa Symphony Orchestra Music and Mariposa? Ahhhhh, Paradise!!! http://arts-mariposa.org/symphony.html http://www.geocities.com/~jbenz/lesbio.html ----- Original Message ----- From: dhbailey To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 4:57 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Re: Finale Bug Fix Wish List I recall at least one person who said that he had upgraded to Fin2008 and was very happy with it. (Or did he say 'content' with it?) At least there was one (and possibly another) over the past 3 weeks or so that have said they're using it quite well. David H. Bailey _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
