Re: [Finale] What is the Finale strategy?

[Mark Adler]

Hi All,

I‘ve enjoyed reading the comments in this thread the past few days and
thought I’d jump in with a few comments of my own.

MakeMusic remains a company made up of musicians and run by musicians. I’ve
personally spent a lifetime working as a professional musician, engraver,
and music editor. You’ll find dedicated musicians throughout the company,
from our General Manager, Fred Flowerday, to our engineering, CS, sales,
and marketing teams.

We will indeed miss Michael Johnson, and we wish him the best in his future
endeavors. Michael remains a good friend and continues at be a member of
our company brass quintet, so his opinions and expertise will not be too
far away.  While Michael does have a great sense of corporate history and
knowledge, there are also many others here with 20+ years at MakeMusic.
Myself, I am a relative newcomer at MakeMusic with only 10 years.

I monitor this and other forums, so please keep the comments coming,
especially concerning what you like about Dorico, and Finale’s shortcomings
related to linked/voiced parts.

We watch our competitor’s progress closely, and your opinions as to what
features and innovations resonate are very helpful to us as we continue to
develop and improve Finale.



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Re: [Finale] Apparent printing bug in new Finale

[Mark Adler]

Hi Chuck,

Thanks for reaching out with your requests.  I and others at MakeMusic
subscribe to this list and have been following the thread. I subscribe in
digest form and read every update.

I'm sorry you are disappointed with the new Finale. We are aware of the
printing issues are are working to fix them.

We are also aware of the the desire for more customizable pallets, both in
size and color and, while not on the roadmap for the immediate future
(v25.1 or v25.2), we are certainly discussing ways that this can be
achieved.

Part of my job is to prioritize bug fixes and features given available
resources. While I'd love to fix every bug and issue submitted, for this
release, other issues took precedence over developing smarter tuplet
bracket hooks.

Best,

Mark Adler


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On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Chuck Israels <cisra...@comcast.net>
wrote:

> 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

Re: [Finale] JW Plug-ins Not Working in 2014.5

[Mark Adler]

Just a reminder that as we modernize the Finale codebase to remain current
in today's operating systems, plug-ins also need to be modernized. While we
modernized all plug-ins that ship with Finale, it is important to remember
that not all 3rd party plug-ins have yet been modernized and may not work
in Finale 2014.5. My best advice is to check with the various plug-in
developers to make sure that you have the most current versions of their
plug-ins.

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Re: [Finale] Finale 2014.5 by end of November?

[Mark Adler]

Hi Craig,

2014.5 is on it's way soon and works well in El Capitan but I'm still not
going to publicly state a release date : )
My priority this last year has been to continue to update the codebase,
improve performance and bug fixes. All plug-ins have been updated and many
longstanding plug-in bugs have been addressed. FinaleScript got extra
attention and now works better than ever.
For more details, check out the thread at
http://www.finalemusic.com/blog/mark-adler-and-whats-next-finale-2014-5/


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[Finale] Is it time to upgrade

[Mark Adler]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Michael Lawlor <mjlaw...@virginmedia.com>
To: "finale@shsu.edu" <finale@shsu.edu>
Cc:
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 00:21:43 +0100
Subject: [Finale] Is it time to upgrade?
I am about to get a new machine (i5 5200U, 8GB RAM) and would like to
upgrade Finale.  Currently I am running 2009; is 2014 worthwhile?  I have
seen it get a lot of stick but have seen no news of the next release.
Regards,
Michael Lawlor



Hi Michael,

The next new version will be 2014.5, a free upgrade for anyone that owns
2014. Currently we are in the midst of beta testing 2014.5
Here is some information from my blog post on the topic:

http://www.finalemusic.com/blog/mark-adler-and-whats-next-finale-2014-5/

If you find that 2009 has issues in Windows 10 (I haven't tested back that
far, but I suspect it'll work) you can always grab the free trial version
of 2014d and give it a spin.

Mark Adler

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Re: [Finale] Michael Good and Java 6

[Mark Adler]

Hi Henry,

I certainly understand your frustration, and would love it if Finale were
now 64-bit. Just want to let you know that we are working on getting their;
it's a very high priority.

Mark Adler
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