Re: [Finale] Horrible Playback, Bookmarks, Copy Errors

2008-10-27 Thread dhbailey
Robert Patterson wrote: [snip] The only problem I have with this statement is, how are the Sibelius fixes delivered? I thought it was on a 3-yr development cycle. How can they deliver any timely fixes on that long of a cycle? They deliver update fixes, usually more than one, in between major

Re: [Finale] Horrible Playback, Bookmarks, Copy Errors

2008-10-26 Thread John Howell
At 6:15 PM -0500 10/26/08, Robert Patterson wrote: Which brings to the main reason I stay with Finale: 3rd party plugins. I have not seen or read anything that suggests to me Sibelius can achieve the efficiencies that Finale can with 3rd party plugins. Sibelius ships with a collection of 3r

Re: [Finale] Horrible Playback, Bookmarks, Copy Errors

2008-10-26 Thread Robert Patterson
To Stig's original point, I am dismayed at the bugginess in Fin08. (I have yet to use Fin09 for real work.) I also have experienced the unreliability of Copy/Paste in Fin08, including the V2 rests problem. It also moves grace notes at the end of a bar to the beginning of the next when you copy

Re: [Finale] Horrible Playback, Bookmarks, Copy Errors

2008-10-26 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
Everyone replying so far seems to have commented only on the fact that Sibelius has its own problems, but I haven't read any contradiction of the initial premiss that Finale has "horrible playback". Is finale playback really that awful (I have no experience of any other programme) or is th

Re: [Finale] Horrible Playback, Bookmarks, Copy Errors

2008-10-26 Thread Stig Christensen
I allready have Sibelius, so that will not be a problem. I don't expect a full featured seq. I use Logic for that, but beeing able to "proove listen" is very usefull, but almost impossible in Finale. The pan-bug has been there for too long now! The bookmark feature is not the most elegant co

Re: [Finale] Horrible Playback, Bookmarks, Copy Errors

2008-10-26 Thread John Howell
At 7:08 PM +0100 10/26/08, Stig Christensen wrote: So many anoying bugs. Again I find my self considering Sibelius! Please feel free to comment Sibelius has its own problems, not too surprisingly, and playback is one of them if you expect EITHER program to be a full-featured sequencer wh

Re: [Finale] Horrible Playback, Bookmarks, Copy Errors

2008-10-26 Thread dhbailey
Stig Christensen wrote: How come the play back is so horrible in Finale. The volume is lovered and the pan suddenly goes bananas! You can't use that for anything! And what happended to Bookmarks, that function doesn't work anymore. I also cpoied a complete piano part to a newly created score, a

[Finale] Horrible Playback, Bookmarks, Copy Errors

2008-10-26 Thread Stig Christensen
How come the play back is so horrible in Finale. The volume is lovered and the pan suddenly goes bananas! You can't use that for anything! And what happended to Bookmarks, that function doesn't work anymore. I also cpoied a complete piano part to a newly created score, and suddenly the new par