On Sep 16, 2013, at 2:26 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > Steinberg.....until they ship something, who knows. There are plenty > of other notation packages out there that are nice, but don't have a > real substantial user base. Plus people using Sibelius or finale > generally won't switch.
I've been using Finale since the 1990s, and I think it's pretty likely I'll move to Steinberg's product when it's out. I didn't go to Sibelius because I'm the sort of typographer who likes to directly control the positioning of everything, and when Sibelius first came out it was weak on that. Today, both products but especially Finale are overdue for a complete overhaul anyway. I really like the development team at Steinberg, and I think they're going to come up with a superior product. I also think they'll be attentive to the details that I care about (even while addressing dozens of other things I don't care about). All my previous Finale works will stay in Finale. I don't really care about file conversion. For most of my work, when a project is done it's pretty much done. My end product is a PDF, and I don't generally go back and revisit works over and over. If something's really old, I might just redo it from scratch in my current software. I've done that a few times in Finale, either with early 1990s stuff I did in Lime or pieces done in Finale so many versions ago that making a fresh copy was easier than converting and editing. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
