I used BIAB harmonization a lot, especially to get a quick draft of an arrangement. I usually re-harmonized manually for the final copy, but it was a very useful way to get something going quickly.
Over time, this degraded. Eventually it became very destructive, as whenever you would run the tool on a range of measures, it would mess up the beaming for other measures on the same instrument, even measures not in the selected range. Because of this rather serious bug, it really isn't productive to keep a version of F2012 installed to be able to run the BIAB plug-in. And that bug illustrates a difference between a 1980s era program like Finale and a modern program like Dorico. In Dorico, the beaming and ties are completely automatic, following the notation rules you establish. If you move notes around in time, the music automatically re-casts itself to be notated correctly with regards to beams and ties. Every year that Finale does nothing, it gets another year behind the state of the art. It seems doubtful to me Finale will ever return to anywhere close to the state of the art. Moreover, I don't see any indication the company even considers that a goal. On 4/19/2018 1:46 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > Tempo tool and BIAB were significant features? Color me surprised. I'd be > interested to know if others found them to be significant. Personally I > never used BIAB even once, and the Tempo Tool only rarely and only up until > Human Playback was a thing. But I admit I'm not that fussy about playback. > Obviously ymmv. > > FWIW: I recompiled JW Tempo for 64-bit macOS. It works just fine in > MacFin25. (Basically, the Tempo Tool was removed from the F25 U.I. but not > the underlying support for tempo changes.) It's a free download on my > website if you think it might be useful. I always found it to be more what > I wanted out of tempo changes than the Tempo Tool. > > > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:33 PM, Craig Parmerlee <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Tempo tool. BIAB harmonization. >> >> >> On 4/19/2018 9:10 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: >> >>> Which functionality was lost v25? I've been on it so long I forgot. >>> >> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >> https://www.avast.com/antivirus >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
