I got this product yesterday. My opinion so far is: a) It is marvelous and represents a very important direction for the future
b) it is completely useless in its current form. I am finding it extraordinarily tedious to do even the most simple things such as adding a dot to a quarter note. I tried 35 times on one measure and never did get it to work, but curiously when I completely deleted the measure and entered the measure again, it took the dot the very first time. It won't let me write "3" above a triplet in some cases if the notes are already above the staff. I was able to put a 3 in a weird place on the stem side and it picked it up. I guess with enough patience a person could learn how to fiddle with this, but at present, its detection isn't anywhere close to what SmartScore can do, and SmartScore explicitly states that it is not suitable for handwritten scores. To be fair, SmartScore has had a decade to improve their algorithms. I await similar improvements in StaffPad. It is clear to me at some stage, this will be a really important tool, and it was worth $60 for me to see the future even if I am not so likely to use it much in the near term. It is an amazing amount of capability for $60, even if it really isn't ready for prime time. It isn't far off. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
