Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
At 12:49 AM -0500 6/07/03, Craig Parmerlee wrote:
At 09:06 AM 6/7/2003 +1000, "Matthew Hindson wrote:
By the way, has Makemusic/Codamusic _ever_ made a profit?
I don't know about "ever" but apparently not recently.
They face a tough confluence of circumstances.
Part of that is a heavy push by Sibelius in the school market. At our school we had a visit by a Sibelius specialist who gave an all-day workshop, which went a long way to getting over the "getting started" blues that so many students have with notation software. I have to say, he was very good, very focused, and very critical of the things that Finale doesn't do as well as Sibelius that are of interest to my students.
We know Finale can do all these things, but when it is a multi-step process in Finale and one click in Sibelius, that makes it more attractive to students. And we all know that the software someone starts on, they are likely to stick with. It worked for me and Macintosh, and me with Cubase on Atari.
If Coda could supply more usable default files to start with, this would ease things in the school market considerably. For example, almost everything in Sibelius plays back out correctly of the box. To set up Finale so that everything plays back in the same way is a week's work. (notably, some things that don't play back correctly in Sibelius are bari sax, tenor sax, and any octave-transposing instrument.) Just getting all my students on Finale to let items show on other layers when using Slash Notation is a major hassle. And chord suffixes, sheesh! In Sibelius, chord symbols can be attached to virtual beats (like in Encore) without needing to be attached to actual measure items. This also is very attractive to students who have struggled with the multi-step process to do this in Finale.
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