I agree with Aaron on this issue. My time is valuable. (Imagine what'd like to be able to charge per hour!)
I suspect that the improvements in staff positioning control will save many cumulative hours dealing with vertical collisions in scores. (I never did figure out settings that worked in the "Avoid Collision" plugin.) It is evidently deeply ingrained company policy for MM to bring out an upgrade every year, and I am always both pleased and disappointed in how they have addressed my concerns. I'd have liked MM to have followed Sibelius' lead on the "Magnetic" positioning of expressions this year - that would save dealing with TG tools Align/Move, but that's just me. Anyway, I'd rather spend my energy trying to get a feature or improvement I want in whatever upgrade is scheduled than ranting about a policy that shows no sign of changing. Again, it's not that I think that $100 is chicken feed, but neither are the hours that are saved when some improvement in efficiency shows up in the upgrade. My guess is that lyric improvements (less important for me) and staff positioning control will prove to be timesavers. Chuck On May 25, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: > > Not every version has to have a "wow" factor for me; I try to take an > incremental approach. If the new features and bug fixes together save me more > than a couple of hours of work over the course of the year, then the upgrade > pays for itself. > > Aaron. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 phone (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 www.chuckisraels.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
