On 11/20/2013 4:09 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > I use Digital Performer, and I don't see MusicXML. They do have Final Cut Pro > XML, OMF, AAF, and AudioDesk (which I believe is a scaled down version of DP > they ship with their hardware interfaces). > [snip]
My first thought when reading about the reorganization at MakeMusic is that the new owners, being venture capitalists and not software developers, are looking to reshape the Finale team so they can make it more marketable to another company such as Cakewalk. Steinberg is developing their own notation program, Avid has Sibelius to go along with ProTools, Presonus bought up Notion, so the only independent notation program is Finale. Thinking like a venture capitalist, that's what I would do -- invest in modernizing the code so that it could more easily be incorporated into another product line, get a new upgrade out the door to recoup some of the investment as well as prove to potential corporate buyers that there's a thriving marketplace still, then unload just Finale or possibly the whole company or spinoff SmartMusic on its own and sell that also to some educational software company. Only time will tell -- in the meantime I'm satisfied with Finale2014, at least so far. The only problem I've run into is that when I print, if I need to change something in the printer driver, such as duplexing, once I OK that dialog the entire Finale Print dialog disappears. Then when I click Print again in Finale, the computer beeps at me as if I was a stupid fool and Finale's print dialog appears again. I have no idea if that's a Finale problem, a Win8.1/Finale-combination problem or what, but it's annoying since I can't set up the duplexing from within Finale's print dialog. -- David H. Bailey [email protected] http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
