Craig Parmerlee wrote:
I wonder if we should be giving them some benefit of the doubt on this
subject. As a professional software designer for 35 years, it seems
entirely plausible to me that they may have faced a point where
preserving unlimited staff names, in combination with other new
features. would have taken significant extra programming and testing
effort. In cases like that, I believe it is appropriate for the system
architects / business planners to make some judgments about their
overall vision for the product. That seems to be the case in this
instance. Their vision is, evidently, that they want to put their
effort into the more elegant organization of expressions.
If there were absolutely no trade-off involved and they made this change
just to be hard-headed, that would be a bad deal. I really doubt that
was the scenario though.
That is my thinking on the subject as well, but the only
justification brought out by the people at MakeMusic seems
to be that publishers have asked for Finale to be more like
Sibelius.
Hard-headedness seems to be the only public justification given.
I wonder what other Sibelius-like changes will be coming in
the future versions, since Publishers seem to be able to get
MakeMusic to jump when they want. Will they eliminate the
pitch-first-then-rhythm data entry since Sibelius doesn't
allow that?
Will they muck up playback of some D.S. / D.C. forms since
Sibelius doesn't play them back properly yet?
How about data file format? Why don't the publishers demand
that Finale provide Sibelius-format files so that
submissions can come from either program but can be worked
on in-house with only one program?
I would love to know what sort of pressure to do things in a
specific way that publishers are bringing to bear on
Sibelius to try to get it to work more like Finale, if any?
Is it only a one-way street? If so, where did Finale drop
the ball and allow Sibelius to gain such a strong foothold
that people can demand that Finale be more like Sibelius and
actually get their way?
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David H. Bailey
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