David Froom wrote:
How about linked parts now allowing the breaking up of tutti parts
(that is, two parts on a single line in score being represented in the
linked parts as two separate parts). That alone had me avoiding using
linked parts altogether. They seem to have fixed other things in
linked parts that would mean not having to have a separate score for
parts -- though why they allow unlinking of enharmonic changes is
beyond me, as every conductor I know wants to see exactly what the
players see.
That is a great idea.
The "fixed" engraver slurs with the promise of true WYSIWYG, the
changing of the dynamics on the fly, dragging dynamics to new notes
making them reassign, easy cross-staff notation in piano writing, the
expanded contextual (right click or contrl-click) menu, the sorting of
expressions, the multiple page editing, improved Garritan -- these all
seem significant to me. Also allowing VST/SmartSynth instruments
alongside Garritan. Maybe I finally can use Finale for decent audio
playback (if I can only work out an easy way to do orchestral
percussion).
The stuff for educators (Smart Music, boomwhackers) seems silly to
me. Finale is overkill for these folks. Also, working with or
recording an audio file also seems like a dumb addition. For that, I
would use DP or ProTools, since the MIDI in both of them is vastly
more easily controlled and tweaked. But they must have had requests
for all of these.
SmartMusic is ok. Biggest complaint there is the sound quality. And you
still cannot, it seems, make your own SmartMusic files with real audio
in them.
Boomwhackers is lame. I use the TGTools Add Pitch Names ALL THE TIME for
educational things.
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