I think Steinberg notation software is, at this point, the poster boy for "100% vaporware." They put out a video with demos made on a totally different product, for goodness' sake!
I wish them only the best, and hope the ultimate product does all that is promised and more, but only vapor is available now. Raymond Horton Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) UMC Composer, Arranger VISIT US AT rayhortonmusic.com On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:56 PM, David H. Bailey < dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com> wrote: > On 9/17/2013 1:35 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > > I agree with Darcy's list of wishes long before playback features, and to > > them I would add music spacing options by region and part. > > > > BTW: if you are looking for an open framework, there is MuseScore. I > > haven't been following exactly where it is going lately, but I think it > has > > the potential to leave all the others in the dust, just because of the > > large number of people that seem to be contributing. I certainly think > that > > any new commercial product will have trouble competing with it. The > > Steinberg offering, for example, seems to be 100% vaporware. If I had a > > dollar for every vaporware announcement that never saw the light of day, > I > > would be a rich man. > > > > I'm not sure it can truly be called vaporware -- isn't vaporware an item > which has a name, has a price, has an announced shipping date and then > never appears? > > The Steinberg product is admittedly (by Steinberg and the development > team) to be in development with no announced shipping date. There has > been no pricing announced and as far as I recall, no product name yet > either nor a proposed shipping date. > > Or do you consider every product which is in development to be vaporware? > > -- > David H. Bailey > dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com > http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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
