On 27 Jul 2011 at 14:36, David H. Bailey wrote: > It will be interesting come the Fall when Finale finally gets their > new version out the door, to see whether Finale's become 64-bit and > has other modernization features.
The only benefit of 64-bit for Finale on Windows would be, I think, in allowing larger soundsets to be loaded into memory because of the larger memory address space. I don't know exactly how Finale interacts with the sound player -- if it's actually compiled with links to the player, then Finale has to be 64-bit to get the memory benefit. But if it's just a loose link, where Finale passes off data to the player, there's no real need for both sides to be 64-bit. Anybody have any ideas on that? Remember, for instance, that Microsoft recommends that the vast majority of users of Office 2010 should install the 32-bit version, as the benefits the 64-bit version offers are often outweighed by the incompatibilities it introduces. If that's the case for Microsoft's flagship product, I can't quite see the benefit in going 64-bit with Finale (unless it's a matter of the linking at compile time with the sound player). -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
