I just found out. I set up a canon composition work, made a finale notepad 2008 crash course, and asked the class to deliver it as a (free!) Finale notepad file.
Now I'm getting a lot of mails - shall/must I buy? bla bla... I really liked finale notepad as a free program, whatever limited, for my students... If Sibelius makes a free version, it's another reason for me to switch... BTW, Students can get a cracked version of Finale, too, so this is no great argument. I don't recommend this, but now, with notepad no more free, I just might... Anybody from Make Music or Coda listening? Kurt -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] Im Auftrag von Matthew Hindson fastmail acct Gesendet: Freitag, 5. September 2008 02:24 An: finale@shsu.edu Betreff: [!! SPAM] [Finale] Finale Notepad/Reader 2009 As I am on the digest, apologies if someone's already posted about this. There is apparently a letter being sent out to registered Finale and Notepad users outlining (basically) that Finale Notepad 2009 is going to cost $9.95, and there will be a free Finale Reader 2009 that will open, print and playback Finale and MusicXML files. <http://downloads2.makemusic.com/pdf/notepad/NP2009_Announcement.pdf> This is a bit of a shame. Sure, US$9.95 isn't too much even if you're a student (presumably with a credit card), but for students, downloading a cracked version of Sibelius is free. In an institution, where (for example) we put a copy of Finale Notepad onto every staff computer and lab computer (and get the staff member to register it online), this is going to be a financial imposition. Let's hope the new version of Notepad is worth the money and hassle. Matthew _______________________________________________ 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
