Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Oh wow, they have a SCROLL VIEW now. Wow. Amazing. Those guys are great.
Well it may be a yawn to you, but it is certainly attracting this
finale-user's interest! And other folks' as well.
Especially in view of how many of the recent Finale upgrades have been
mirrors of the previous Sibelius release (incorporating Kontakt player
was Sibelius first, linked score/parts was Sibelius first).
And that scroll-view, as David Fenton says, is addressing a major issue
which holds may Finale users back from trying Sibelius.
Finale had better sit up and take notice and not just think they can do
whatever they feel like.
Oh yes, Sibelius had textured paper LONG before Finale did. :-)
So with Finale having played catch-up to this young whippersnapper of a
program for the past few years, if Sibelius can resolve some Finale
users' final objections (I wonder if the page-layout enhancements in
Sib5 will address some of the supposed "for that final 5% you need
Finale" issues), MakeMusic will need to do a lot to attract and keep new
users and long-time users.
Such as making tech-support easier and friendlier for starters.
Failure to address long-standing bugs is another symbol of a "we don't
have to care, we're the leaders" mentality which will have the Sibelius
tortoise crossing the finish line way ahead of the Finale hare.
And while Finale may have jumped on the file-overwrite issue quickly, it
has certainly dropped the ball on the hyphens issue and I have yet to
see any fix coming for the speedy-entry re-spell notes bug.
Oh, yeah, I forgot, we have to pay for any major fixes over the freebie
limit of 1, so we'll see those issues addressed in the next upgrade
which we'll be expected to pay for, even though they were nonexistent in
the previous upgrade which we paid for.
Funny how business works -- I coulda sworn that such things used to
fixed for free and with an apology!
--
David H. Bailey
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