time for some corrections. there seems to be lots of smoke and mirrors in the release notes...
at 2:40 in the video on this page, there is the orgasmic claim that "We [Finale] are the developers of Music XML!": http://www.finalemusic.com/products/finale/finale-vs-sibelius make music acquired recordare in november 2011, who had been developing xml -- for finale AND sibelius -- since 2004. from http://www.finalemusic.com/products/finale/whats-new we read: 1) "While previous versions of Finale could create tall time signatures, like those seen at left, it admittedly took a few steps. Today it's easy." awesome. mmmmm, how? 2) "When entering notes into transposing staves, the new Finale plays the correctly transposed pitch both upon entry and playback." this has been the case for some time now, it seems to me? 4) "We've also made new looks possible (including contoured dashed slurs) and eliminated dozens of bugs." wow. what are contoured dashed slurs? seems to me i have been using them for many years in finale. zoomed in at <http://www.finalemusic.com/products/finale/features/finishing-touches/#Contoured-Dashed-Slurs> and i don't see an important change in thickness between the tip and middle of the slur like i would expect. but in any case this would not constitute a revolutionary addition (justifying the cost of upgrading), even if this is the case. and really? there were only "dozens of bugs" in F2014? correcting "dozens of bugs" i would expect to be a given in a new release, not a main selling point. there were bugs in your last version? i'm happy to see them fixed (congrats!) but i paid already for an upgrade that you admit had "dozens" of bugs and now i am paying again to see (some of) those bugs fixed?!?!?!?! this is a business model i cannot take seriously. -- i'm hopeful that the sluggishness on mac has been improved (i understand this seems to be the case). but if i already paid for a new version (2014) that was significantly slower than the previous version i worked with (2012), can someone explain to me how it is justified that i am now being asked to pay for an upgrade that seems to only offer corrections to the speed that got fucked up in F2014 as a major selling point? in such a case, i could imagine there would then be no point for PC users to upgrade... -- neueweise -- fonts for new music (and traditional) notation [JAN 2016] v. 1.002 for Finale 2014.5 and PC http://newmusicnotation.com/fonts.html shirling & neueweise | http://newmusicnotation.com new music notation + arts management + translation [FB] http://facebook.com/neueweise | [TW] http://twitter.com/neueweise _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
