>> Short of being Warren Buffet or Bill Gates or Paul Allen and being able to hire your own development team to give you what you want, you're stuck with what's available. :-) >>
That's exactly what my point is: we're stuck with whatever the manufacturers offer us. And they don't fasten the pace of development because they don't have to. Microsoft was first to offer the Office suite and that's why WordPerfect and their suite don't have market share. They lagged behind Microsoft for years as far as integration. But Microsoft MUST fasten the pace of their OS development because LINUX is charging ahead. The latest SUSE (10.1) shows big progress. You may counter that it's difficult to configure, etc. I didn't like Linux for a long time, but now I am changing my opinion. It took a while, nevertheless I am. All I wanted is to make a point about the state of certain music software and not create a whole whirl about it, my point being that it's time for making the software more comprehensive. Time will prove or disprove my point. I am, rightly or wrongly, pleading for a development platform, just as many other platforms which once were disparate, discreet, packages. This is why I agree with Jim Williams who wrote about it a while back in the same manner. John. On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:45:44 -0400 dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John T Sylvanis wrote: > > Johannes, > > > > I built my tape recorders. But then I didn't have to make a living > :-). > > > > I know, notation software is not trivial. But asking for the > obvious > > isn't trivial either. Yeah, one can find all kinds of loopholes: > > the market is too small, the program is complicated, the > programming > > expensive, marketing costs, advertising. Surely, but these are the > risks > > of running a business. I remember when selling computer software. > People > > Yes they are the risks of running a business. Isn't it interesting > that > of the four leading notation programs (Score, a DOS warhorse that > keeps > on ticking, Graphire Music Press, Sibelius, and Finale) NONE of them > > feels the market will bear the expense of including what you want > included? > > Isn't it also interesting that all the major sequencer applications > have > decided not to go very far with their notation capabilities? > > For so many varied players in this small niche market to have > decided > that integration beyond a basic level wouldn't prove financially > worthwhile enough for them to take the plunge, I would guess that > there > really isn't much of a market for what you are asking for. > > And it isn't for want of end users asking, pleading for such > functions > -- many is the thread we've had on this list over the years about > how > horrible hyperscribe is in Finale, and how horrible the midi-import > > function is for any sort of complex rhythms. Lots of feature > requests > have gone to MakeMusic asking for these areas to be improved. Very > > little improvement has been forthcoming. There has to be a reason. > > > were constantly asking why they had to buy a separate word > processor, a > > separate spread sheet, why the database wasn't communicating with > the > > spreadsheet (a very obvious question), etc. Remember Word Perfect? > Very > > good processor. It still exists, but it's just a word processor. > Word > > Star and other single packages fell by the wayside once Microsoft > got > > their act together. > > Microsoft Word is just a word processor. WordPerfect now comes in a > > suite just like Word does. WordPerfect has the same table > functions, > importing database and spreadsheet data stuff that Word has. I'm > not > sure what your point is? > > With the advent and continual improvement of MusicXML as a sort of > lingua franca of music applications, perhaps there will be little > need > for an all-encompassing single package. Sequence your stuff in a > program streamlined for such a purpose such as Sonar, then save as > musicXML and import that into Finale or Sibelius for notation. > > But for better or worse, the available applications are what they > are. > Take your pick and use what you can. Short of being Warren Buffet > or > Bill Gates or Paul Allen and being able to hire your own development > > team to give you what you want, you're stuck with what's available. > :-) > > > > -- > David H. Bailey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
