It really is a shame because 2014 is a good release in many respects. The Windows version has caused me relatively few problems, but this smart copy one is enough to drive one batty.
I had hoped they had turned the corner after taking so much time to get 2014 out. I compare Finale with Cakewalk. I am a regular Sonar user. There are many similarities between the companies. Both have been around decades and have a large, loyal, extremely forgiving user base. Both companies got into financial difficulties and went through massive ownership changes. In Cakewalk's case, they were acquired by Roland for a number of years. During that time, they tried to advance the state of the art with their X1 and X2 platforms. Those packages were impressive, but so loaded with bugs they lost many users and couldn't attract new users. Their ownership thought the path forward was to keep developing new stuff and not attend to the bugs. It really came almost to riot proportions among the user base. There were many good people at Cakewalk, just as I am sure the same is true of Finale. And I'm sure none of them felt good about having such a poor quality product on the market. That didn't really change until Gibson bought Cakewalk. That was about the time that they released X3. While X3 continued strong technology leadership, there was clearly a huge effort put into cleaning up long-standing bugs. Most notably, in the 6 months that X3 has been out, there have been 5 major patch levels. There are still a few bugs, of course, but the user base is wildly enthusiastic now and actively recommending the product to colleagues. I'm not saying that a product must have one big patch release every 30 days, but a product with as many issues as Finale really deserves more than one patch release in 5 months. On 4/5/2014 2:38 PM, Mike Greensill wrote: > It's sooooo slow and crashes all the time....most unusable upgrade ever. > Back to 2012. > > Mike G. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
