Just playing devil's advocate, I can think of some reasons. 1. The U.I. sucked. It was basically unusable. Personally, I only used the feature by means of JW Tempo. And now with Human Playback I don't even use it that way. Meanwhile, they would have had to either spend resources updating a crappy U.I. for 64-bit (a non-trivial task on Mac) or completely redesign the U.I. for 64-bit.
2. But their usage reports told them hardly anyone uses the feature, which called into question the value of spending any resources on it. (Resources which are extremely limited.) They apparently opted for pissing off the small number of users who use it. (Or at least the apparently small number of users who use it.) 3. The reason it still works is that it would cost a lot of time to remove and debug the removal of the feature from the engine. So they left it in. Over time it may quit working for other reasons, but I doubt they'll ever intentionally remove it. They've just stopped supporting it. I would really like to know if the JW Tempo features were ever subsumed into one of his later plugins. I never discovered it if so. A 64-bit version of JW Tempo would solve this problem. On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 10:11 AM, David H. Bailey < dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com> wrote: > On 11/4/2016 9:29 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: > > You can open your file in Fin 2014, enter the tempo tool changes, and > then > > reopen it in Fin25. Fin25 will still play back the tempo tool. The only > > level that was removed appears to have been the U.I. > > > [snip] > > Which seems really stupid to me -- what other piece of software requires > the user to keep a previous version installed simply to use one tool > which actually works in the new version but for which the developers > decided to eliminate the user interface? > > If the functionality is there and if the user interface worked just fine > in previous versions and they haven't done a "from the ground up total > rewrite of all the code" upgrade, there's no reason not continue to > allow the user access through the same user interface which has worked > for many versions. > > And they're probably scratching their heads wondering why so few people > are upgrading to Finale25 . . . > > > -- > David H. Bailey > dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com > http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
