At 05:24 PM 6/5/2003, Craig Parmerlee wrote: >But for a person who uses the software as an everyday tool, 2003 just >didn't seem to provide much value.
General statements like this can be hard to support. For me, the "Optimize in Groups" feature added in 2003 meant that I didn't have to go through all of my scores that include piano and change default rests to whole rests in one hand of the piano whenever there were notes in just the other hand, to avoid one piano staff getting optimized away. If this feature saved me just a few hours of work over the year (and it certainly did), then it justified the upgrade price even if there was nothing else in the upgrade that I wanted.
I admit that many of Finale's new features have looked like marketing-driven things to help sell the product to new users. And I, like many other users, have my own personal list of thing I wish Coda would fix or improve instead of giving us multi-colored icons. But I would say that for frequent users, it takes only a little bit of added value to make the upgrade worth it over the course of the year.
Aaron.
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