Hi Darcy,
Also sorry to have missed you. I did see Ryan, who let me know what
was going on with your band.
Many of Tobias' tools work in 2010, and there are things in the new
version that I find useful - the chord attachments to beats rather
than hidden rests, and the well implemented rehearsal letter system -
both are helpful, but not having the layout copy/paste tool makes
using linked parts more time consuming than it should be. It's harder
to lose something you've become used to than it is to accept that
something you'd like is not there. Please write Tobias. It can't
hurt. He has responded to me and said that he'd be working on the
update, but that was weeks ago, and there has been no news lately.
Thanks,
Fond regards,
Chuck
On Aug 13, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Hi Chuck,
First off, I should say how sorry I was to have missed you when you
were in town in July. I'm afraid I ended up being totally jammed up
without a moment to spare. Next time, I hope!
That is *terrible* news about TGTools and Fin2010. I haven't even
installed that version yet, I've been waiting for the maintenance
update -- but without the ability to transfer layout via TGTools,
I'm not sure it's even worth putting on my machine.
Unfortunately, Tobias seems to have more or less abandoned TGTools
at this point -- it's been an incredibly long time since even the
most minor update, and while he's not answered any of my recent
emails, he seems disinclined to keep the software up to date.
Obviously, this is a huge problem for those of us that have come to
rely on it. I suppose the only thing to do is for us to keep being a
pest to him, until such time as he either starts working on the
software again, or makes some kind of formal statement that TGTools
has been discontinued (which it effectively has, it seems).
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 13 Aug 2009, at 8:36 AM, Chuck Israels wrote:
Dear Darcy,
Thanks for the copy of the email to Tobias. I have written him
twice, encouraging him to get the plugins updated for 2010 (copy/
paste layout does not work, and you can imagine the need for that
with linked parts). I don't want to become a pest to him, so it
would help if he were to hear from others.
Fond regards,
Chuck
On Aug 12, 2009, at 10:16 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Hi Tobias (and Finale list -- I've CC'd them too),
Today I was teaching a lesson to a Finale student, trying to
encourage him to purchase TGTools by demonstrating the utility of
the Align-Move hotkeys, but for some reason they would not work on
his machine (a recent-model MacBook Pro). I realized that his
keyboard lacked the "NumLock" option historically found on Mac
Portables -- so there is no way of accessing the "Numpad *",
"Numpad +" and "Numpad -" required for TGTools shortcuts.
Please add alternative keystrokes for these shortcuts ASAP! It's
frustrating that Apple has eliminated this option on their
portable computers, but now that they have, we desperately need
new TGTools shortcuts that don't depend on being able to simulate
Numpad keystrokes on a laptop keyboard.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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Brooklyn, NY
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