On Jul 7, 2005, at 5:55 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
If Digital Performer had decent notation I would never have bought Finale. I've always wanted one program to do it all, but have always been told that that'll never happen. This requires me to do my work twice--in Finale for printout, and in Digital Performer for a decent sounding mockup. I used to start in DP, and since opening a MIDI file in Finale required too much tweaking, I had to start from scratch to recreate the same file in Finale. Then I discovered that if I start in Finale, and then open the MIDI file in DP, there's a lot less tweaking to do to get decent playback. And Human Playback helps to get a less mechanical-sounding mockup. Now with GPO, it's almost possible for me to get what I need in Finale alone, although I'm a little disappointed in GPO (at $139 I can't really complain--you get what you pay for). I can see that the addition of a mixer in Finale will be helpful in getting my mockup made. But Finale has a long way to go before it can even begin to compete with DP or Logic. And judging from what I've read here, that's not the path most listers want to see MM take. I'm surprised that this dynamic part linking issue is suddenly such a big deal to everybody. Like I said in an earlier post, MOTU's Mosaic had that feature, and if MOTU hadn't completely abandoned that program, I would never have bought Finale. I've always missed this feature since coming to Finale. But until this announcement from Sibelius, I don't remember anybody making much of a fuss about dynamic parts on this list. Now all of a sudden almost everybody wants this feature, and claim to have wanted it all along. I'll tell you this. Since getting on the Finale bandwagon, I've tried to be a loyal user, resisting the urge to jump ship and go with Sibelius, even though I have clients who would like me to do so. But this dynamic parts feature is awfully appealing to me--enough so that I may just have to bite the bullet and make that jump to Sibelius. Lon ******************************************** Lon Price, Los Angeles |
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