This issue of long-standing bugs being fixed points up a feature listed on the website that greets me with dismay. That is the "Studio View & Powerful Mixer" feature. Some on this list are already salivating at the thought, but for all its possible value, I believe it is a rueful step.
That is because it is a step out of the notation world into the crowded sequencer market. If Finale tries to be all things, it will be none. MM is a tiny company. The introduction of sequencer features risks the possibility that most of their resources the next few years will be devoted to enhancing those. I am extremely concerned that we may have seen the virtual end of notation-related enhancements for a long while. The 2006 release already apparently provides essentially none, at least based on the new features list at the website. Moving around the items in the Copy/Paste UI and calling it "engraver" hardly makes it a significant notation-related improvement. And any time a UI gets shifted around, I wonder what feature(s) might have been taken away. The new plugins look like they could be moderately nice, but plugins by definition cannot add new functionality. At their best, they automate the old functionality. This is probably the case with new plugins like "Split Measure" and "Mid-measure repeats", although one hopes there might be bug fixes for some of the long-standing problems related to, e.g., split measures, or minor functional tweaks to make the plugins' jobs a bit easier. > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Yates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 03:41 AM > To: 'Coda Finale Support', 'Finale list' > Subject: [Finale] Finale 2006 > > I am far more interested in whether existing bugs have been fixed than in > new features. The web site lists new features. Is there a list somewhere of > things that were broken in Finale2005 but have been fixed in Finale2006? > > Richard Yates > > > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
