Fin25 / Fin26, you say potatoes, I say potahtoes. Not much difference
that I can see.
I just tried a quick experiment to see how wonderful the new automatic
placement feature for slurs and other articulations works, and I have to
say that it does what it claims to, although hardly the big deal around
which to build a whole-number upgrade.
Yes that does make multiple articulations much neater by default. But
it stacks the articulations as it feels they ought to be. If we want
them stacked differently we still have to drag them as we've had to do
in all previous versions of Finale.
Looking at the list of what's new in Fin26, there is the comment:
"Palette. The Simple Entry Rests Palette is now one of the default
palettes displayed when launching Finale." -- Did anybody really suffer
from having to actually manually have the Simple Entry Rests Palette
display whenever Simple Entry mode is used, or setting Finale to have it
display all the time if we so wished? Hardly worth a whole-number upgrade!
"...the return of the Maestro font Lead Sheet template" -- so putting
something *back* which should never have been removed in the first place
is something we have to pay for? Especially aggravating, given that we
had to pay for the upgrade where they removed it in the first place!
No, I see nothing making this a worthwhile upgrade for anybody who is on
Finale12, 14, 14.5 and definitely not worth the price for someone
working in Finale25. If a person is on a much earlier version of Finale
then this will offer a lot of improvements, but beware, some
long-standing bugs (read Giz's message) are still there
Unless the articulations were driving you batty, in which case you may
feel it's worth the $150 upgrade fee. I'm with Giz Bowe on this -- it's
the last upgrade for Finale I'll be buying until they do major
improvements to the program. I notice that they don't appear to address
the numerous complaints about the linked score/parts and what is linked
and what is unlinked.
Gone are the days of the mind-blowing, new-feature-rich upgrades of the
past, where we could suddenly do something that previously had been
impossible or at least very difficult.
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David H. Bailey
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http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com
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