On 12/18/2011 9:46 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > How could they have dropped the ball? They have an excellent, CHEAP, App out > that sounds great. Ok, sure, no lyrics…..yet……but that is hardly dropping the > ball. > > The company that has totally dropped the ball, missed the boat, again, is > MAKEMUSIC……where is there Finale viewer app? Or Finale Notepad for iOS? Or a > SmartMusic iPad app? Or……any app? >
Agreed -- MakeMusic (and Sibelius) have dropped the ball big-time with the iPad, which is in the hands of many professional musicians, educators and amateur musicians, the very core consitituencies which keep the companies afloat. Sibelius's Scorch viewer app is a joke, in my opinion because it doesn't serve any meaningful purpose to me. If I want to view Sibelius (or Finale) files, I print to PDF, and then send the PDF file(s) to ForScore, which is a terrific music-reading app. What I want from MakeMusic and Sibelius are notation apps which allow direct editing of their native file-formats, so I can work on a file in Finale, copy it to the iPad and take it with me to work on and then send it back to my computer for more work. SmartMusic would be an ideal app for the iPad market -- these "giants" of the music notation field have been asleep at the wheel, probably looking on the iPad as a toy of no major significance, when in fact it is a superbly crafted tool which can handle many of the same functions in the music world that computers have handled for the past 20 years. Oh well -- I never really liked Notion as a computer-based notation program, finding that it lacked much of what Finale and Sibelius had, but I sure do like it as an iPad-based notation program. How about it, MakeMusic and Sibelius/Avid? Are you really so blind that you can't see the huge potential for this new electronic marketplace? -- David H. Bailey [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
