While I can understand your reservations, many longtime Finale users may not be familiar with Daniel Spreadbury. He is a genius when it comes to notation (and music software in general). He is thoroughly familiar with both Sibelius and Finale, well antiquated with most other music software, and a fine musician as well.
Finale's code is, I think, about 25 years old, Sibelius with the exception of the extensive re-write to bring it 64 bit in Sib 7, is about 15 years old. Daniel's team has the advantage of a blank sheet, apparent patience from Steinberg, Yamaha money, and a lot of skill (musical and digital) and creativity. I think there is plenty of room for optimism. MuseScore is interesting but, when I've used it, it seems clumsy in many ways. It seems the developers are only able to do things the way they have seen others do them. I don't see the kind of forward thinking that has always been a part of Sibelius and Finale. On 2013-09-17 12:18, Raymond Horton wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
