Re: [Finale] Dorico 2

2018-07-12 Thread Steve Schow
That is very very unlikely to ever change. Steinberg has had a strict stance on copy protection for a very long time with Cubase and has documented very well that this is just how it is, and how it will always be. Of course of Steinberg goes out of business, which is unlikely to happen any

Re: [Finale] Fin2010 announced

2009-05-28 Thread Steve Schow
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Re: [Finale] Finale 2009 Announced

2008-07-11 Thread Steve Schow
This has always been the tradeoff between Apple and Microsoft. Microsoft tends to value backwards compatibility, but moves very slowly to evolve their OS and software into superior products, since they are stuck in a quagmire of backwards compatibility. Even the ages old 8086 processor

Re: [Finale] Cheap, easy notation apps?

2008-07-06 Thread Steve Schow
Uhmm, I think maybe finale Notepad will do what they need. Free. On Jul 6, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Paul Hayden wrote: I have a friend who sings in a non-professional choir and he would like to buy a Windows platform notation program that is inexpensive (say, less than $100US) and easy to use.

RE: [Finale] Sib5 competitve upgrade is available for $80

2007-10-15 Thread Steve Schow
Thanks to whomever made the audiomidi price known to us. I just picked it up. Can not go wrong at $80. Personally I am not really ready to changeover to Sibelius yet, I'm rather committed at the moment to learning Finale. But at least now I have the option. -Original Message-

RE: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Steve Schow
Richard it sounds like you are wasting your time on this mail-list. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Smith Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 11:08 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale If you like

RE: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Steve Schow
Would it be such a drain on MM's resources to allow their employees to maintain a presence here officially, instead of making them do it on their own time and unofficially? First of all, MM does have its own forum and some of their employees do actively monitor it. I have gotten answers

RE: [Finale] whatever works

2007-08-05 Thread Steve Schow
Deluxe Music Construction set. Now there is a blast from the past. -Original Message- Of Lawrence David Eden I can only hope that the boys at Samuel French will hire someone to clean up the books! Whether they choose Finale, Sibelius or Deluxe Music Construction Set makes no

RE: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Steve Schow
Thanks for the scolding. I rest my case. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David W. Fenton Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 5:35 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: RE: [Finale] Goodbye Finale On 5 Aug 2007 at 11:29, Steve Schow wrote

RE: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-04 Thread Steve Schow
For people who have grown up with Finale and used it for many versions, it will remain easier to use until an equal amount of time is put into learning Sibelius. But for people just starting out with one notation program or the other, it's what they learn first which will seem easiest for

[Finale] Improved Sonata font

2007-07-22 Thread Steve Schow
I know this is old school, but I am just really still in love with the Adobe Sonata font. one of the standard ones from MM really do it for me. Mostly I don't like the large noteheads, and petrucci is too small. Even Maestro, which is supposed to be half way, is just a little bit too large for

RE: [Finale] Improved Sonata font

2007-07-22 Thread Steve Schow
Sorry, there is a typo below. NONE of the MM fonts do it for me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Schow Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 3:02 PM To: 'finale@shsu.edu' Subject: [Finale] Improved Sonata font I know this is old

RE: [Finale] Sibelius

2007-07-18 Thread Steve Schow
I just wish they could figure out how to make the PDF's I produce on my windows box look as good as the PDF you produced on your mac. Nice looking score by the way -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kim Patrick Clow Sent: Tuesday,

RE: [Finale] Re: Fin 2008 arrived

2007-07-04 Thread Steve Schow
Furtheremore, with keyboard macros and plugins, I can work so fast that I can't imagine Sibelius (or any other program) being any faster. Robert, as a new Finale user, let me just say that if you or someone like you wrote a book on how to become a Finale power user this way, I think it

RE: [Finale] Re: Fin 2008 arrived

2007-07-04 Thread Steve Schow
Dennis P.S. Where does one subscribe to the Sibelius mailing list? I'd like to lurk there a bit... Check yahoogroups.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

RE: [Finale] Re: Fin 2008 arrived

2007-07-04 Thread Steve Schow
I've been riding the fence for a long time. I still can't decide. Its not a cut and dried issue. This may sound silly, but I just can't get around Sibelius' insistence on showing a full page layout with margins (even with the new panarama view). Finale's scroll view is much better. Sounds

RE: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-28 Thread Steve Schow
Yea I was thinking the same thing sadly. They missed the boat on a few key improvements that I think would have made it a must have. For example, why still no general purpose VST mixer? How about ASIO or WDM audio? If it comes in and turns out it fixed a bunch of known bugs, I'll think

Re: [Finale] Finale/Sibelius as sequencer/sampler?

2006-10-06 Thread Steve Schow
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Re: [Finale] Garritan [was: Finale/Sibelius as sequencer/sampler?]

2006-10-06 Thread Steve Schow
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Re: [Finale] Finale/Sibelius as sequencer/sampler?

2006-10-06 Thread Steve Schow
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Re: [Finale] Finale/Sibelius as sequencer/sampler?

2006-10-06 Thread Steve Schow
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Re: [Finale] Finale/Sibelius as sequencer/sampler?

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Schow
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Re: [Finale] Finale/Sibelius as sequencer/sampler?

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Schow
ourselves to be composers by the way. ;-) Anyway, for this type of composing, I really can't think of a tool that is closer to providing the right toolset that we need than finale. And I have tried or own a bunch. Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 05:44 PM 10/5/06 -0700, Steve Schow wrote

Re: [Finale] differences in playback-MIDI vs. AU/VST

2006-10-01 Thread Steve Schow
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Re: [Finale] differences in playback-MIDI vs. AU/VST

2006-10-01 Thread Steve Schow
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Re: [Finale] differences in playback-MIDI vs. AU/VST

2006-09-29 Thread Steve Schow
The finale version of GPO only has a few small differences. Go to www.northernsounds.com and search around in their forums to find out what they are. Mainly, the Finale version actually has a few small things setup slightly differently for playback...which make more sense for the way Finale

Re: [Finale] differences in playback-MIDI vs. AU/VST

2006-09-29 Thread Steve Schow
I'm not familar with the Mac to know the issues. Sounds like the CoreMidi might not do a good job of getting midi events routed to external synths and does a better job of routing them to AU plugins. And also if you are talking about going over midi cables to actual external synths..that

Re: [Finale] differences in playback-MIDI vs. AU/VST

2006-09-29 Thread Steve Schow
Thanks for the clarification. That doesn't sound good at all. Is this something you've taken up with MM? It has been brought up many times over the past couple years on their forum. I suspect they are paying more attention to the Mac version and the windows version is an afterthought.

Re: [Finale] differences in playback-MIDI vs. AU/VST

2006-09-29 Thread Steve Schow
I'll ask around on the GPO forum. On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:59:48 -0400, Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 29 Sep 2006, at 4:26 PM, Steve Schow wrote: I don't think Finale actually SEES anything inside the AU plugin. This was the case with Kontakt Player 1. My understanding

Re: [Finale] differences in playback-MIDI vs. AU/VST

2006-09-29 Thread Steve Schow
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