Re: [Finale] Two parts on one stave

2014-10-14 Thread David H. Bailey
On 10/14/2014 3:15 AM, dc wrote: Belated thanks for your replies. I think shared staff (or stave) will be fine. By the way, am I right in assuming that stave is British and staff American? Yes. -- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com

Re: [Finale] Two parts on one stave

2014-10-14 Thread Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre
So the Americans have staff sergeants, whereas the British have stave sergeants? Klaus Sendt fra min iPad Den 14/10/2014 kl. 11.40 skrev dc den...@free.fr: Le 14/10/2014 09:44, David H. Bailey écrit : Yes. Thanks for confirming, David! Dennis

Re: [Finale] News update on MakeMusic move to Boulder

2014-10-14 Thread Robert Patterson
Architects lost control of Finale years ago. I am not picking on Finale, because it is an industry-wide phenomenon and a routine hazard of aging products, but the evidence is everywhere that architecture is out the window at MM. Here are a few clues: 1. Beat-attached smart shapes are only

Re: [Finale] News update on MakeMusic move to Boulder

2014-10-14 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I agree with you Robert. There really hasn't been strong design leadership. MM programmers basically hack away until they get something that the company is willing to put into the market. Evidence of this is features that take 3 releases to actually get close to right. Every software

[Finale] Brand new iMac and Finale question

2014-10-14 Thread Martin Banner
My old iMac from 2008 died and I was forced into buying a brand new iMac, OS X 10.9.4. I previously used Finale 2008 without any trouble. All of my files (and applications) from my old Mac were migrated over from an external hard drive. I was able to reconnect my MIDI interface and input notes

Re: [Finale] News update on MakeMusic move to Boulder

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Parker
talking more about partially thought-out implementations in this case. I still think that Finale (and Sibelius) are still screwing up implementations of things like linked parts and magnetic layout that Igor Engraver had right decades ago. Igor had (severe) problems but was designed from

Re: [Finale] Anybody think we will ever see any more fixes for F2014?

2014-10-14 Thread Randolph Peters
In the history of Finale updates, I can’t remember Finale putting out more than 3 per version. So, I’m guessing that the next iteration of Finale will have a new version number on it. -Randolph Peters ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Anybody think we will ever see any more fixes for F2014?

2014-10-14 Thread Dean Rosenthal
Maybe those comparisons of cars and Tvs were a bit over the top - although I'd like to know what your reasons are - you don't give any. About Adobe and other patches, from Apple and MS Operating systems, I've been using Macs for almost two decades and I can't think of a single update that has

Re: [Finale] Anybody think we will ever see any more fixes for F2014?

2014-10-14 Thread David H. Bailey
On 10/14/2014 1:16 PM, Dean Rosenthal wrote: [snip] it's broken And it's really made me question why software is any different. You can't say the sophisticated engineering that goes into manufacturing an entire car isn't potentially as detailed as a software app - considering there is a lot of

Re: [Finale] Anybody think we will ever see any more fixes for F2014?

2014-10-14 Thread Craig Parmerlee
David, I generally agree with your comments on this subject. But I really don't think this is a Wall Street play in this instance. I think it is a case where Finale as an independent company could not find a business model that worked consistently. It seems to me that this SHOULD have

Re: [Finale] Anybody think we will ever see any more fixes for F2014?

2014-10-14 Thread Robert Patterson
I think this list is being entirely too pessimistic about prospects for future Finale releases. I should let someone like Michael Good speak for himself (or for Peaksware) but I believe some key developers from Finale are making the move. That hardly seems like they are abandoning Finale. I've

Re: [Finale] Anybody think we will ever see any more fixes for F2014?

2014-10-14 Thread Craig Parmerlee
As far as I know, he has made no such statements publicly other than the vague, bland non-denial the day they announced they were moving to Boulder. Have you seen any? I really would have thought that would be a priority, considering that the news was basically, We're firing the CEO, we're