Hi Michael, Thank you for your detailed reply. I am happy, as I suspect other readers on this forum will be, to read detailed responses that offer context from R&D! The forum appears to be a fairly to extremely knowledgeable group of Finale users who seem to have been with the program for years (like me) and are extremely devoted to learning more about how Finale works, why, and what is being done from Finale's view when improvements and changes are made. You are able to be that voice from the top!
Thanks, Dean On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:00 PM, <finale-requ...@shsu.edu> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Good, Michael" <mg...@makemusic.com> > To: "finale@shsu.edu" <finale@shsu.edu> > Cc: > Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:44:02 +0000 > Subject: Re: [Finale] Finale 2014: Looking back, looking forward > Dear Dean, > > I thought from previous emails that you had already heard a lot about > keyless scores and were looking for practical advice. In that vein, we've > written about keyless scores in the manual and in our blog: > > https://www.finalemusic.com/UserManuals/Finale2014Mac/Content/Finale/Keyles > s_scores.htm > http://www.finalemusic.com/blog/finale-2014-and-keyless-scores/ > > Scott's blog post in particular details the three major use cases for > keyless scores, and on a practical level I don't have much to add to what > he wrote there. > > My own thoughts on the importance of keyless scores center on the > importance of directly capturing musical semantics in the Finale format. > How computer software represents common Western music notation has been > the focus of my work for the past 14 years, first on MusicXML and then on > the new MakeMusic notation file format. While you could approximate > keyless scores in past versions of Finale with features like chromatic > transposition, it is much more powerful to capture these semantics > directly in the file format. This is especially true when sharing music > prepared in Finale with different digital sheet music applications, which > will become increasingly important to composers and publishers in the > coming years. > > That's more a theoretical and future-looking perspective than a practical > one, so I didn't think it was on point to your question. But that is my > personal perspective on the keyless scores feature, and a big reason why I > called it out in my blog post as a model for the type of improvements we > are looking at for the future. > > Adding forward and backward compatibility has been one of the most popular > and persistent feature requests from our customers for a very long time. > I'm sorry that this led to the temporary removal of QuickLook and > Spotlight functionality. But I can't offer a date or estimate for future > releases or downloads. As a general rule, I will never be able to offer > dates or estimates for future features, bug fixes, releases, or downloads. > What I can do is acknowledge the issue and work with my colleagues to > create ever better products in the future. > > Best regards, > > Michael Good > VP of R&D > MakeMusic, Inc. > -- Dean Rosenthal www.deanrosenthal.org _______________________________________________ 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
