RE: [Finale] TAN: minor rant

2010-04-02 Thread Phillips, Justin
] On Behalf Of Randolph Peters Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 11:00 AM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] TAN: minor rant Hi Justin, Welcome to our Finale discussion group. I hope that you will come to appreciate, as I have, the breadth of wisdom and experience of many of the contributors

Re: [Finale] TAN: minor rant

2010-04-01 Thread dhbailey
Mark D Lew wrote: So I ordered my upgrade tonight. Afterward the webpage asked me to participate in a survey, so I said OK. On the first page, it asks: Which Finale 2010 feature was the biggest reason for your upgrade? - Export lyrics - Measure Numbers - Percussion Notation - Music Education

RE: [Finale] TAN: minor rant

2010-04-01 Thread Phillips, Justin
...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of dhbailey Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 5:52 AM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] TAN: minor rant Mark D Lew wrote: So I ordered my upgrade tonight. Afterward the webpage asked me to participate in a survey, so I said OK. On the first

Re: [Finale] TAN: minor rant

2010-04-01 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Phillips, Justin wrote: Hi David/Mark, We certainly do monitor as many Finale boards and mailing lists as we can. In addition, we do want to hear thoughts and feedback about our new features or improvements you would like to see in future versions. Sometimes we do miss things on these

Re: [Finale] TAN: minor rant

2010-04-01 Thread Christopher Smith
Justin, I notice you said you wanted to hear feedback about new features and improvements. Sorry to come down hard on you, but what most of us on this list are wringing our hands over are NOT more new features, but fixing the bugs that cost us so much in lost time. Some are longstanding

RE: [Finale] TAN: minor rant

2010-04-01 Thread Phillips, Justin
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 9:51 AM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] TAN: minor rant Justin, I notice you said you wanted to hear feedback about new features and improvements. Sorry to come down hard on you, but what most of us on this list are wringing our hands over are NOT more

Re: [Finale] TAN: minor rant

2010-04-01 Thread Randolph Peters
Hi Justin, Welcome to our Finale discussion group. I hope that you will come to appreciate, as I have, the breadth of wisdom and experience of many of the contributors on this list. Christopher Smith is one such member. What he says about Finale should be given the highest attention at

Re: [Finale] TAN: minor rant

2010-04-01 Thread Randolph Peters
Oh boy. I hope this won't get ugly, because we all need a lot of good will between Finale users and MakeMusic. Justin, you might not realize it, but you just pored gas over a burning fire. If any group has reported the bugs, lobbied for specific improvements, meticulously examined the demos,

Re: [Finale] TAN: minor rant

2010-04-01 Thread Mark D Lew
On Apr 1, 2010, at 7:02 AM, Phillips, Justin wrote: We certainly do monitor as many Finale boards and mailing lists as we can. In addition, we do want to hear thoughts and feedback about our new features or improvements you would like to see in future versions. Well, speaking only for

Re: [Finale] TAN: minor rant

2010-04-01 Thread David W. Fenton
On 1 Apr 2010 at 10:59, Randolph Peters wrote: And what are we going to do when Finale 2008 doesn't work on our computers? [This is more of a Mac problem, but we've seen it happen with the switch to System X AND the switch to intel chips.] It's a potential problem for 64-bit Windows, too. It

Re: [Finale] TAN: minor rant

2010-04-01 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Actually, I'd bet that non-OSX versions of Finale will run fine using some of the System 9 and earlier emulators. If I have time I'll try it out. But I've had HUGE success running System 8 program, System 7 and System 9 programs including some great multimedia ones. Downside would be I don't