Hi David, We know exactly what you mean, which is why we're emphasizing that nothing is changing about our direction or product plans. I've been able to be more public about those plans than we have traditionally in the past (and I will continue to do so).
We're absolutely committed to Finale, which is why we're not releasing a 2013 version this year. The reasons are directly from customer input (novice to pro), so we decided to spend some more time developing for Finale 2012 and work on future products. Finale's engine is the core of our products, it's what drives all of the notation products from NotePad to Finale, and SongBook on the iPad. Additionally, Finale's notation engine is at the heart of SmartMusic. As for an editing app on iOS, I'd love to have one. Finale SongBook was the first step of porting Finale's engine to an iPad, and we'll continue to develop for the mobile platform. I can't reply on here as much as I'd like to due to time constraints, but feel free to alert me to anything I'm missing or items you'd like clarification on! -- Justin Phillips Portfolio Manager - Notation Products MakeMusic, Inc 763-772-3964 On 6/14/12 6:53 PM, "David H. Bailey" <[email protected]> wrote: >Such a revolving door in the CEO's office doesn't exactly inspire >confidence. > >However, I would like to thank you, Justin, for maintaining an official >presence on this list because such a presence does a lot to make me feel >more confident in the company's commitment to the Finale product. > >So, thank you for helping us out and for keeping us in the loop with >these sort of links and indications of things to come. > >By the way, SongBook works great. I'm hoping that you folks are working >on an iOS app that will allow us to do some actual notation work. I >realize that will cost money, but especially if we can work on notation >that will be easy to import into Finale it will be worth it. > >Thanks, Justin! >David H. Bailey > > >On 6/14/2012 7:18 PM, Phillips, Justin wrote: >> Here's our press release on the matter: >> >> http://www.makemusic.com/Pressroom/Default.aspx?pid=549 >> >> As the press release states, we're keeping on track with the product >> direction we've been working on for the past year. We launched Finale >> SongBook a few weeks ago, have a 2012b release soon, and announced some >> cool Garritan products: >> >> http://www.makemusic.com/Pressroom/Default.aspx?pid=548 >> >> >>http://blog.finalemusic.com/post/2012/05/29/The-Next-Version-of-Finale.as >>px >> >> http://www.makemusic.com/Pressroom/Default.aspx?pid=546 >> >> >> >> > > >-- >David H. Bailey >[email protected] > > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
