Wow-didn't think this would elicit so many replies I had the original MusicPrinter on my apple ][e and][e, then moved to Laser Music Processor (anyone else use that one???) and MusicPrinter Plus on my PCs circa 1987(?). I also had a utility called Laser Twin that (allegedly) made 9-pin dot-matrix printer output resemble a laser printer. Sorta. It did so by overtyping six or seven times. Sometimes it put holes in the paper from all the overtyping, as I recall.
Sent from my iPhone, so please pardon all the typos. > On Jul 13, 2016, at 2:28 PM, GERALD BERG <gj.b...@rogers.com> wrote: > > Professional Composer and Professional Performer! A 2 floppy disk tag team > as i recall. I miss it for composing. The time signature and bar line was > an after thought whereas in Finale it is a before you begin kind of thing. GJB > > From: David Froom <dfr...@smcm.edu> > To: finale@shsu.edu > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 1:28 PM > Subject: Re: [Finale] to upgrade or not... > > Another since-v.1 user here. Prior to that, I tried using MOTU Professional > Composer. I still have a score that used MOTU for notes only, and I drew in > slurs, dynamics, articulations by hand (which I was OK with because I’m of > the generation that had a Pelikan fountain pen with a music nib, a set of > raised rulers, and an electric eraser). I amuse my students by telling them > that when I moved to from LA to NYC in 1979 to start a doctorate program, one > could still find employment in downtown LA or midtown NYC in a room full of > music scribes, all with pen and ink, dutifully writing out scores and parts > for shows, bands, commercials, and the few composers who were getting big > orchestral performances. We used to get our onion-skin paper and bring in the > finished scores for blue-print printing at Circle Blue Print in NYC, Alpheus > (which became Judy Green Music) in LA. Judy Green also had all the best paper > and pencils (with double-sized erasers) and general supplies (pens, nibs, > ink, special rulers). > > Then Finale! Did v.1 come out in 1988? Even on a Mac Plus, (files on one > floppy, programs on the other — remember the repeated disk swapping?), and > pre smart shapes (when you had to generate each slur as an independent > graphic), and tiny computer screens, it was worth the effort — if only > because fixing mistakes was faster, and, with enough fussing, you could get > something that actually looked pretty good! I think it was finally around > the mid 1990s that Finale became faster than doing it by hand. > > David Froom > >>> On 13 Jul 2016, at 1:00 PM, <finale-requ...@shsu.edu> >>> <finale-requ...@shsu.edu> wrote: >>> >>> Same as Dennis here--around 1989, quit MusicPrinter plus and got Finale >>> 2.x for my 386 computer . Strayed a couple of times along the way and now >>> 80% Finale, 20% Sibelius. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone, so please pardon all the typos. >>> >>>>> On Jul 13, 2016, at 12:39 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz < >>>> bath...@maltedmedia.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, July 13, 2016 12:35 pm, Chuck Israels wrote: >>>>> Don?t know if there are others here with the same history, but I have >>> used >>>>> Finale since v.1.0. Nevertheless, there are a number of others whose >>>>> knowledge of the program runs considerably deeper than mine, including >>> the >>>>> always reliable Christopher Smith. >>>> >>>> Indeed! I didn't start with version 1 because there was no Windows >>> version >>>> until version 2. >>>> >>>> Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
