Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 07:25 AM 7/28/2008, dhbailey wrote:
>the expense. The major change, the ability to use *any* VST
>plugins for playback, is only of limited or nonexistent use
>to many of us.
Depends who you mean by "us". If you mean "the current and potential
base of Finale users", then I think you're wrong, and I don't think MM
would have spent so much time and energy working on playback features
over the past few versions if they didn't have a good sense that there
was demand for this.
If you mean "people who use Finale primarily for notation", then you're
right, by definition. If you mean, "those of us on this list", then I'm
not sure.
(Personally, I installed the Garritan sounds with the first Finale
release they came with (2007?), but after playing with them for a bit to
see what they were all about, I never used them. I didn't even install
them with 2008, and I don't plan to for 2009. It's just not part of what
I use Finale for.)
By "us" I really did mean the current and future Finale user
base -- I do realize that the use of the word "many" may
have been misguided.
But it may not have been -- for many of us, we'll never go
beyond the playback samples which Finale provides. For many
others of us, who want to use expensive-sample-set-A for
strings, and expensive-sample-set-B for brass, and
expensive-sample-set-C for woodwinds, etc., its a terrific
step forward and for them, it's worth the price of the
upgrade, even if the engraver slurs problem or the lyrics
smart-extensions or smart-hyphens never gets fixed. For
people paid to produce only audio output but who work best
with notation rather than sequencers, its an excellent upgrade.
I'm sure there are some heavy-hitter users (either whole
production houses or publishers [Hal Leonard may use Finale
to produce their play-along CDs, who knows] or big-name
movie/tv composers) who demanded that addition.
I'm not trying to say it should not have been included -- I
think it's a terrific addition. But other than this new VST
capability, and hidden under-the-hood improvements which
nobody has been oohing and aahing over very much in this
group, there isn't a lot in this upgrade other than the new
FinaleScript2 to catch anybody's attention.
FinaleScript2 seems like it has potential, but I wonder how
much of a learning curve it will have for the part-time or
casual Finale user, and whether it will ultimately prove the
god-send it seems like it has the potential to be. Plug-ins
began with that potential also, but it quickly became
clear that only people who had programming chops (or were
willing to spend time developing them) and who had
perseverance ever were able to do anything with Plug-ins
other than simply use the plug-ins others developed.
I'm looking forward to having people share their
FinaleScript2 scripts on this list, along with explanations
of what the various commands do, so that others can learn
and feel comfortable experimenting, as happened when
StaffStyles were added.
--
David H. Bailey
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