Wonder why they have released a version that is so buggy. I came back to 2014d because 2014.5 makes a lot of problems...
Rafael Junchaya On 22 November 2015 at 14:14, David H. Bailey <dhbaile...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 11/22/2015 6:38 AM, Graeme Gerrard wrote: > > I don’t get it. I am sure the new owners and engineers have been > working hard and long on 2014.5. But again, a release has emerged that > can’t have been thoroughly tested or it wouldn’t have seen the light of day! > > > > The problem must be in the testing cycle. Users, actual users, not > novice or pretend users, seem to only take a few hours or days to turn up > problems, problems that should have been detected in alpha tests and never > made it to beta. > > The need to “get something out the door” seems to over-ride pride in > producing something good. I am aware it is a massively complex product, or > set of products. > > ..and when there’s no real competition…. > > Actually Musescore isn’t anywhere near Finale yet, but there is a drive > there to make a better product that is clearly missing among “professional” > producers. > > Graeme > > > > > Actually, with version 2 I think Musescore got a lot closer to Finale > than many think, and for many people who use notation software, > Musescore is all they will ever need. Not professional engravers, but > hobbyist musicians, students, and composers who need good notation but > not all the intricacies of Finale or Sibelius (or the expense). > > While I do some professional engraving projects when the opportunity > arises using either Finale or Sibelius if the customer specifies, I find > that when left to my own choices and for all the new projects of my own > I use Sibelius and get wonderful results without many of the > frustrations that recent versions of Finale have introduced. These are > the kinds of projects which for years I used Finale for. So I'm not > quite sure why you're saying that there is "no real competition" for > Finale. Certainly there is with Sibelius, except that its corporate > ownership doesn't seem to be any better than Finale's corporate > ownership. And some new notation software users are going with Notion, > although it's got a ways to go before it will catch up with Sibelius or > Finale for more complex notation needs. But at least Notion has a > usable tablet version using the same file format which allows users to > do a lot while away from their primary computers without the somewhat > lossy migration using MusicXML (but at least that's a huge improvement > over MIDI migration). That's something that both Sibelius and Finale > would do well to emulate! > > Steinberg's notation product is still far from the marketplace so we > have no clue whether it will be significant competition or not -- > certainly they are pouring lots of development dollars into it with no > publicly visible corporate pressure to rush an incomplete product to > market. And their development team is headed by a person with a proven > track record of leading solid development of notation software. > > > -- > David H. Bailey > dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com > http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
