To Stig's original point, I am dismayed at the bugginess in Fin08. (I
have yet to use Fin09 for real work.)
I also have experienced the unreliability of Copy/Paste in Fin08,
including the V2 rests problem. It also moves grace notes at the end of
a bar to the beginning of the next when you copy them.
Fin08 does a terrible job of upgrading old files. I recently had to
completely re-edit a piece from v2.6.3. The imported articulation
definitions were completely trashed, the shape expressions were
completely gone, and the underlying shapes were corrupt (crashed Finale
when attempting to delete them). In the old days I could stage old files
thru Fin02, which imported them pretty well, but Fin02 no longer runs on
an Intel Mac. (Sheepshaver fails to run on my new Mac Pro, so I can't
even try to run Finale on that.)
It was so bad that I opted not to use my original parts files and
instead re-created them from scratch. With the new linked parts feature
and productivity-enhancing plugins, I am sure it was faster to do so.
Which brings to the main reason I stay with Finale: 3rd party plugins. I
have not seen or read anything that suggests to me Sibelius can achieve
the efficiencies that Finale can with 3rd party plugins.
John Howell wrote:
The difference, as many have testified, is that the present Sibelius
management seems to be dedicated to fixing problems that are brought to
their attention, unlike the present MakeMusic management, which is not.
The only problem I have with this statement is, how are the Sibelius
fixes delivered? I thought it was on a 3-yr development cycle. How can
they deliver any timely fixes on that long of a cycle?
MM management certainly knows about most of the problems. Recently,
though, they have thrown the baby out with the bathwater. They screwed
up Mass Copy in Fin08 (in the name of "fixing" it), and they screwed up
expressions in Fin09. Lord knows what may be on their plate to screw up
in the coming years.
I thought I would like the Fin08 replacement of Mass Copy with the
Selection tool, but after using it for real work it drives me crazy. I
can't tell you how many times I accidently drag an expression or smart
shape when all I want to do is select a partial region.
Someone posted here that in Fin08 you program transposition metatools
using ctrl-shift-<char>. That worked for me a little while, but now it
has stopped. (The View menu lights up, but nothing else happens.) Anyone
have any idea why?
--
Robert Patterson
http://RobertGPatterson.com
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