I have been using FinWin2k8 for a month or so, mostly entering church
music and doing free work for friends. I would by no means consider
myself a heavy user, since this is my "night job" (at very low pay,
i.e., zero). I also do my composition in Finale.
I have to admit the discussion of switching to Sibelius very tempting,
given that, I still find much of using Finale pretty klunky. The lyric
tools where I spend much of my time have not been updated in just about
forever, and have actually gotten worse (the hyphen bug, while not a
show-stopper, creates a lot of work-arounds; the music spacing
algorithms badly need fixing; the interface in general needs to be
re-done). I also really wish they would support Unicode text.
I was apprehensive at first about the change in the mass mover tool, but
after having used it for a while, I find that it does indeed save me a
lot of time.
I have, however, been very lucky in that I haven't had as many problems
as others who are on this list. I would have to agree that 2k9 really
needs to have all these bugs obliterated. Since I deal in software
support in my day job, there is nothing as difficult for me as
supporting buggy software. And, as an end user, I find few things as
frustrating as meeting a deadline (I have one every Saturday) when much
of your time is spent tweaking your way around hyphens, music spacing
errors, and other bits of Finale Naughtiness.
I'm not ready to jump ship, but this does get frustrating. Maybe Finale
should "sell no wine before its time."
On Oct 5, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Kurt Gnos wrote:
It seems people who write these kinds of topics don't read the rest of the
Finale maillist.
While I sympathize with switching to Sibelius, I've been doing that for
years, I must admit that I find Finale's new features, even if keeping the
bugs, worth the upgrade. The new "combined" "arrow/mass mover" tool and the
more "logical" menus have already saved me a lot of hours work.
The "less new" linked parts are worth weeks or months.
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