Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-23 Thread dhbailey
Allen Fisher wrote: The entire business has grown over the last 4-5 years. We have more Notation Engineers than ever. That's great to hear -- I am sorry I spoke out of turn, then. How is the balance between the two development teams, though? Has SmartMusic received more engineers than

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-23 Thread dhbailey
Eric Dannewitz wrote: But don't you bundle TG Tools with Finale 2009? Isn't Align/Move Dynamics in there and I hear it doesn't work properly anymore in Finale 2009. Somight want to look into that On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Allen Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: TG Tools is

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
David, your suspicion is incorrect. It's like Eric said, the version of TGTools Lite that shipped with Finale 2009 includes an Align/Move Dynamics function that is incompatible with Finale 2009. The Patterson Lite plugins included with Fin2009 also have compatibility problems, although the

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-23 Thread Jari Williamsson
Eric Dannewitz wrote: But don't you bundle TG Tools with Finale 2009? Isn't Align/Move Dynamics in there and I hear it doesn't work properly anymore in Finale 2009. Yes, file a bug report. It's then MakeMusic's job to allocate the resources needed to make the bundled plug-ins work with the

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-23 Thread dhbailey
That seriously disappoints me, especially after Allen's comment about how the TGTools is developed by Tobias, implying that Finale has no responsibility to ensure that TGTools works with the product. I'm sorry, but if MakeMusic is shipping something with Finale2009, it is despicable that

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-23 Thread dhbailey
Jari Williamsson wrote: Eric Dannewitz wrote: But don't you bundle TG Tools with Finale 2009? Isn't Align/Move Dynamics in there and I hear it doesn't work properly anymore in Finale 2009. Yes, file a bug report. It's then MakeMusic's job to allocate the resources needed to make the bundled

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 Sep 2008 at 4:56, dhbailey wrote: How is the balance between the two development teams, though? Has SmartMusic received more engineers than the notation team, or is the notation team the larger of the two? David, I just don't think this is any of your business. Software development

RE: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-23 Thread Richard Yates
And it just seems rather rude of you to assume you can peer into their shop and tell pontificate about whether they are doing the right thing in allocating developer resources. David W. Fenton And how is this different from assuming one can peer into David Bailey's mind and pontificate about

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-23 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: [snip] And it just seems rather rude of you to assume you can peer into their shop and tell pontificate about whether they are doing the right thing in allocating developer resources. I accept that and apologize. -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 Sep 2008 at 12:59, dhbailey wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: [snip] And it just seems rather rude of you to assume you can peer into their shop and tell pontificate about whether they are doing the right thing in allocating developer resources. I accept that and apologize. You're

RE: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 Sep 2008 at 9:38, Richard Yates wrote: And it just seems rather rude of you to assume you can peer into their shop and tell pontificate about whether they are doing the right thing in allocating developer resources. David W. Fenton And how is this different from assuming one can

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-23 Thread Allen Fisher
I personally like to hear constructive criticism. I like to know that we're doing right (or wrong) by y'all. On Sep 23, 2008, at 12:08 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: But don't stop criticizing them on the *results* of their personnel decisions -- that is something you have every right to

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-22 Thread dhbailey
Jari Williamsson wrote: dhbailey wrote: MakeMusic has reduced the number of developers for Finale and put them onto SmartMusic How many developers? Which? Best regards, Jari Williamsson ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-22 Thread Allen Fisher
Who told you this? On Sep 22, 2008, at 4:51 AM, dhbailey wrote: Jari Williamsson wrote: dhbailey wrote: MakeMusic has reduced the number of developers for Finale and put them onto SmartMusic How many developers? Which? Best regards, Jari Williamsson

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-22 Thread dhbailey
Allen Fisher wrote: Who told you this? As it was sent privately to me, confirming a supposition I had aired on the list, I don't feel it would be right to say who told me that, even if I could recall. I just now searched for the message and it isn't one that I kept, so I couldn't even

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-22 Thread Allen Fisher
The entire business has grown over the last 4-5 years. We have more Notation Engineers than ever. On Sep 22, 2008, at 1:09 PM, dhbailey wrote: Allen Fisher wrote: Who told you this? As it was sent privately to me, confirming a supposition I had aired on the list, I don't feel it would

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-22 Thread Eric Dannewitz
So could you get some of them on to get TG Tools to work with Finale 2009? And maybe answer some of the questions in the Finale Forum. I went there the other day and it is a ghost town. On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Allen Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: The entire business has grown over

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-22 Thread Allen Fisher
TG Tools is written by Tobias Giesen. Not us. On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:59 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: So could you get some of them on to get TG Tools to work with Finale 2009? And maybe answer some of the questions in the Finale Forum. I went there the other day and it is a ghost town. On

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-22 Thread Eric Dannewitz
But don't you bundle TG Tools with Finale 2009? Isn't Align/Move Dynamics in there and I hear it doesn't work properly anymore in Finale 2009. Somight want to look into that On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Allen Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: TG Tools is written by Tobias

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-21 Thread dhbailey
Daniel Wolf wrote: David Fenton wrote: If it weren't for Smartmusic, would MM still be in business at all?On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:00:10 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The last time I looked at a financial statement from MM, notation products (Finale) was the big income stream, dwarfing

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-21 Thread Jari Williamsson
dhbailey wrote: MakeMusic has reduced the number of developers for Finale and put them onto SmartMusic How many developers? Which? Best regards, Jari Williamsson ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

[Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-21 Thread Daniel Wolf
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:00:12 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it depends on which quarter you are looking at -- the last time I looked, it was in the 3rd quarter and they had a huge boost in income which they admitted came from the annual upgrade to Finale. I didn't notice any real

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-20 Thread Daniel Wolf
David Fenton wrote: If it weren't for Smartmusic, would MM still be in business at all?On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:00:10 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The last time I looked at a financial statement from MM, notation products (Finale) was the big income stream, dwarfing Smartmusic. The

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-20 Thread Allen Fisher
Yes, there is. I don't have the app on this computer, but you can set up different Intelligent Accompaniment settings various places throughout the piece. All pieces have defaults set that you can override. On Sep 19, 2008, at 2:29 PM, dhbailey wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-20 Thread Allen Fisher
Like I mentioned, there are pretty good defaults. Strict tempo is kept where necessary, and you can even add your own markers. On Sep 19, 2008, at 3:01 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Maybe this is just a matter of bad default settings -- maybe the default should be strict tempo, and the

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-20 Thread Allen Fisher
IA gets better every release. When was the last time you used it? On Sep 19, 2008, at 3:58 PM, Eric Dannewiz wrote: I also have found that the following feature doesn't work all that well. I can't remember the last time I used it. Allen Fisher Founder and Principal Developer Fisher Art and

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-20 Thread Allen Fisher
I don't believe we put this functionality in NotePad. On Sep 19, 2008, at 1:15 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I don't know what the problem is. That there's no longer a free method of creating Smartmusic files? ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-20 Thread Allen Fisher
Exercises, methods, and assignments do not follow. Specifically to SM assignments, the student can't change the tempo slider when playing to submit. The following is reserved for solo repertoire, and there is a sliding scale for how much it follows you, which can be customized as students

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-20 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Today. The UI sucks. Really sucks. That home screen is totally useless. And the whole selecting a song thing is really bad. Plus, you can't do anything like rate them yourself. Nor can you have multiple playlists that are just there. You can save them...but why does that need to be? Why not

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-19 Thread dhbailey
Eric Dannewitz wrote: But Sibelius does not work with Smartmusic. And they do not offer anything like it...as far as I know. Back on topic...makemusic did increase the price of a Smartmusic subscription, but as the library of songs keeps going, it is totally worth it (even though it has

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-19 Thread Richard Smith
Actually there is an application called StarPlay. http://www.starplaymusic.com/index.php . It is a similar practice/assessment aid but lacks Smartmusic's ability to adjust tempo to the the student. It doesn't have the extensive content that SmartMusic does, but it has a video component that

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 18 Sep 2008 at 21:18, Howey, Henry wrote: If you use SMARTMUSIC (and I really do love it) and FINALE (love-hate relationship), you'll be pleased to know that the latest version of SMARTMUSIC 11 will only work with 2009. If this is true, I'm not sure why this is seen as a problem, given

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-19 Thread Eric Dannewitz
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:15 AM, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: If this is true, I'm not sure why this is seen as a problem, given that Finale itself has never had backward compatibility of file format. What exactly do you mean by will only work with 2009? I think he has it

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-19 Thread dhbailey
I've never understood the reasoning behind SmartMusic's ability to follow the student's tempo -- aren't we supposed to learn it's bad to slow down in the hard parts and speed up in the easy parts? How does that tempo-following ability help the student to learn to keep a steady tempo? I do

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-19 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
I'm not sure it's supposed to follow so that a student can fail to keep a steady tempo, more that it can follow rubato and certain expressive changes of tempo (but then again, I've never used it so I don't know what its capabilities are) Cheers, Lawrence lawrenceyates.co.uk

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-19 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Exactly. I turn off that feature. The other thing I hate is the green follow line that never seems to want to be turned off (you turn it off in the preferences, but it comes back on when you load the program again). StarPlay has a great idea about having a conductor on the screen. But the library

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-19 Thread dhbailey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure it's supposed to follow so that a student can fail to keep a steady tempo, more that it can follow rubato and certain expressive changes of tempo (but then again, I've never used it so I don't know what its capabilities are) I realize it's not

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-19 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
and, of course, there are phrases where the soloist may want to pull the speed around within a strict tempo in the accompaniment and if the accompaniment follows, the result is not good. As I said, I've never used it so I don't know what it's capabilities/limitations are. I can only guess

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Sep 2008 at 15:05, dhbailey wrote: I've never understood the reasoning behind SmartMusic's ability to follow the student's tempo -- aren't we supposed to learn it's bad to slow down in the hard parts and speed up in the easy parts? How does that tempo-following ability help the

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-19 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: [snip] Obviously, for teaching purposes with kids, you'd turn off this feature, but for grown-ups, it would be pretty useless without it, no? As an accompaniment for adults performing, I quite agree with you. But SmartMusic is marketed to schools for students to

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Sep 2008 at 15:47, dhbailey wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: [snip] Obviously, for teaching purposes with kids, you'd turn off this feature, but for grown-ups, it would be pretty useless without it, no? As an accompaniment for adults performing, I quite agree with you. But

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-19 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Not at all. The program is very valuable with the following thing turned off. You can have it just GO and you have to keep up. You can also have a click sounding in addition to the accompaniment. I also have found that the following feature doesn't work all that well. I can't remember the

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-19 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I believe even Sir. James Galway uses the program.he's mentioned it a few times on his Galway flute list. You can tell the program to what degree to follow..but I've never found the feature particularly useful. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and, of course, there are phrases where the

[Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-18 Thread Howey, Henry
I'm sure this topic is altogether tiresome for listmembers, but I've just now caught MAKEMUSIC making money in its own nefarious manner;-( If you use SMARTMUSIC (and I really do love it) and FINALE (love-hate relationship), you'll be pleased to know that the latest version of SMARTMUSIC 11

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-18 Thread Eric Dannewitz
That's not true, I did a smart music exercise in finale 2007 yesterday that opened and played fine with Smartmusic 11 On Sep 18, 2008, at 7:18 PM, Howey, Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure this topic is altogether tiresome for listmembers, but I've just now caught MAKEMUSIC making

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-18 Thread John Howell
At 9:18 PM -0500 9/18/08, Howey, Henry wrote: I'm sure this topic is altogether tiresome for listmembers, but I've just now caught MAKEMUSIC making money in its own nefarious manner;-( If you use SMARTMUSIC (and I really do love it) and FINALE (love-hate relationship), you'll be pleased to

Re: [Finale] MAKEMUSIC greed strikes again

2008-09-18 Thread Eric Dannewitz
But Sibelius does not work with Smartmusic. And they do not offer anything like it...as far as I know. Back on topic...makemusic did increase the price of a Smartmusic subscription, but as the library of songs keeps going, it is totally worth it (even though it has a klunky interface).