Hah! Jef, no you haven’t, but I do appreciate that there may be some deserved sarcasm in your message.
I have been a Finale user since v 1.0 (it cost something like $1000 when it was first released, if I remember correctly, and that probably translates into quite a bit more in today’s dollars). I have gotten to know a few of the Coda Music people, then MM people over the years - sometimes at conventions where they were demonstrating Finale, sometimes through correspondence, and always found them to be friendly and committed to making something that is such a help to me in my work that I have been forgiving of what are sometimes obvious shortcomings. And I have been optimistic in assuming that the goals of the company have not been so different from mine that my input would fail to be heard and taken into account. I have accepted the financially driven orientation towards what I consider to be lowest common denominator educational use, even understanding that this might be pulling attention and resources away from elements that are essential to me. (Like most on this list, I have no use for many of the superficial school-y stuff.) Another thing that keeps me faithful, and perhaps blindly optimistic, is that I just do not want to learn a new piece of complex software. I have acquired a little sense of how Finale works “under the hood” - enough so that I can usually beat it into submission when I have something to do that Finale is reluctant to do in a straightforward fashion. Sibelius doesn’t seem to be better to me - (I could be wrong - don’t really know), and I don’t want to spend weeks learning new working methods in order to find out. Spreadbury’s promised new software will not include chord symbols, and it will present the sam obstacle of learning new methods of controlling it. At this point, not an attractive alternative to me. Now - after considerable fanfare and what seems to me to have been a long wait, I am underwhelmed by some things in this release. And the printing screw up seems inexcusable. Of course, there are workarounds, the easiest of which may be to print from 2014.5. But to release a long awaited new version with a blatant flaw in an essential element of the workflow is certainly, at the very least, sloppy. Where were the beta testers? Of course, there are some obvious improvements in the new version. For those of us, like me, who do not hear written music flawlessly in our imagination, improved playback is helpful. And I imagine that speed improvements may prove to be good. However - some other things for which there has been a substantial volume of support have been ignored for several years. MM admits that there have been many requests for the restoration of the old, colorful, configurable tool pallets - perhaps overly large for laptop users and relegated to the category of eye candy to others, but a useful visual aid for anyone with less than 20/20 vision. Like many others, I have requests that seem reasonable to me that continue to go unanswered. Mark Adler (always courteous and responsive) told me that, though he understood and agreed with me about how Finale is misdirected in how it handles the default spacing of tuplets with brackets, and that he also understood how it could be fixed, that there was not time to include it in this long waited and expensive release. That is a disappointment. (If your bracket hooks are larger than 12 evpus - a half space, then outside of staff vertical placement is inconsistent. I prefer .75 space hooks, but I must now choose between hooks that look small to me or constant fussing with the vertical placement of some tuplets where Finale places the bracket correctly but misaligns the number relative to the bracket, if the hooks are more than a half space long.) So, perhaps not so optimistic at the moment. I will send this to Mark too, and while not naive, I do hope it has some salutary effect. Chuck > On Aug 22, 2016, at 12:14 AM, SN jef chippewa <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > chuck, have i ever told you how much i admire your optimism? > >> ... this is a glaring bug and should get a quick repair. I will let >> them know how damaging this is. > > -- > > 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] Chuck Israels [email protected] (360) 201-3434 8831 SE 12th Ave. Portland OR 97202 <chuckisraelsjazz.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
