Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-18 Thread Giovanni Andreani
...and my decision whether or not to buy 2K5 will be based entirely upon whether it proves to be more reliable and user-friendly than 2K4... Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press Another thing one should consider if not really needing or wanting to upgrade: if I don't upgrade from (let's say)

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread Giovanni Andreani
When I purchased the upgrade to Finale 2004 I phoned Finale's customer service and they told me I could not buy the software from them and should have to contact a local dealer. Result: products ships a little later (it's ok for me, using Finale in English; the translated version, in any case,

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread Rocky Road
Title: Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced * New Fit Width Command. That will be nice for viewing. I always use Fit Width in MS Word. Great way to quickly choose and define the size you want. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread dhbailey
Craig Parmerlee wrote: Maybe there's some fluff, maybe not. But they hit the two biggest product defects, IMHO: tuplets and repeats. If they even got those halfway right, 90 bucks for that is a no-brainer. I'll make that up in productivity savings on the very first project. And if, by some

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread Javier Ruiz
In Canary Islands I pay the shipping, the special kind of VAT we have (5%) and then the customs processing costs, normally 30 euros. (I guess than in your case the VAT is something like 20%). At the end is almost the same than buying it from a dealer, but at least you have it sooner. Javier

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread Éric Dussault
And what about speed on the mac side? Éric Le 17 août 2004, à 10:21, Darcy James Argue a écrit : Well, in the reliability dept., they *did* fix the autosave/text block bug. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-16 Thread Aaron Sherber
Jari, if you're out there -- now that Coda has released info about Fin2005, can you post your review so that we can see what's *really* interesting? Thanks, Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-16 Thread Eric Dannewitz
More reasonable upgrade price. The Tuplet placements and repeats stuff might be all I'd use in the new upgrade.. There is a LOT of fluff in this new version. Brad Beyenhof wrote: http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/features/new/ A few of the new features are marketing fluff, but some of

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-16 Thread dhbailey
Eric Dannewitz wrote: More reasonable upgrade price. The Tuplet placements and repeats stuff might be all I'd use in the new upgrade.. There is a LOT of fluff in this new version. But then there's been a lot of fluff in each new version since about Fin97. We old veterans have to face

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-16 Thread Owain Sutton
dhbailey wrote: As always, we have to hope that the non-fluff improvements are worth the price of admission. Absolutely. Grace notes and tuplets sorted out, if they live up to the promise, will reduce my workload by about half in many pieces. ___

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-16 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Indeed, but the Fluff level is pretty extreme this time. Lanch menu? Performance Assessment? Now isn't the latter starting to blur with SmartMusic? I like that you can save Finale pieces to SmartMusic, but.having Finale now acts a scaled down SmartMusic thing is getting a little too fluffy

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-16 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Friends FWIW, I ordered my upgrade; scheduled to ship this coming Friday. ns ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-16 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:05:02 -0500, Noel Stoutenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I ordered my upgrade; scheduled to ship this coming Friday. Whoa... I didn't think it would ship so soon. I thought this was more of an announcement of features, and not really an announcement of actual

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-16 Thread Jari Williamsson
Aaron Sherber writes: Jari, if you're out there -- now that Coda has released info about Fin2005, can you post your review so that we can see what's *really* interesting? I will post a review! However, I'm waiting for my contact at MM to give me the go-ahead signal for the posting of the

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-16 Thread Jari Williamsson
I just wrote: I will post a review! However, I'm waiting for my contact at MM to give me the go-ahead signal for the posting of the review. FYI: I can post the review tomorrow (Tuesday)! Best regards, Jari Williamsson ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-16 Thread dhbailey
Brad Beyenhof wrote: On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:05:02 -0500, Noel Stoutenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I ordered my upgrade; scheduled to ship this coming Friday. Whoa... I didn't think it would ship so soon. I thought this was more of an announcement of features, and not really an

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-16 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Maybe there's some fluff, maybe not. But they hit the two biggest product defects, IMHO: tuplets and repeats. If they even got those halfway right, 90 bucks for that is a no-brainer. I'll make that up in productivity savings on the very first project. And if, by some stroke of good