1) many people who have only heard about Finale from horror stories their music teachers told of trying to master it back in version 1, 2 or 3 will simply NOT buy Finale, no matter what current users say. In this case, bad press WAS worse than no press;
2) people who are interested only in the guitar aspects of Finale won't want to spend the full price to get a program of which they will never use 80% of the features;
3) people who have no idea what they are looking for are attracted to titles which imply that they will fulfill their immediate needs or desires, so people who play guitar and who want a program aimed at guitar notation and tablature will more readily buy a program called Guitar than they will be likely to buy a program called Finale.
Now that guitarists have been assuaged, let's hope that Finale has put their development dollars into midi-import improvements and also into the playback of smart-shapes (at least the hairpins!)
Sibelius playsback the hairpins very nicely, automatically scaling the playback from the preceding dynamic level to the following dynamic level. The mathematics of the process certainly can't be too difficult, although the actual programming of it to work in all cases may be very difficult.
Richard Huggins wrote:
From: "Richard Yates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The improvements in F2003 were very substantial in the implementation of tablature. This list seems to include few who would have a use for this, so I would not conclude that they misjudged the general market.
To be sure, there's nothing to be gained by my being correct about whether Coda misjudged the attraction of their 2003 product. I don't have an axe to grind with Coda at all and I truly want them to be very successful. After all, if we are to have cutting edge product and our investment of time in learning it to be worthwhile, Coda MUST be successful.
But I must say that if tablature is the defense for 2003, why was their Guitar product necessary? If you mean to suggest that the market for tablature improvements is broader than is represented on this list and in fact is large enough to warrant that being the major improvement offered in Finale 2003, I have to say I'd be surprised. It's a fact not known to me, which doesn't mean squat of course.
Richard
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