I take your point that they "could" do some of the abstraction that is inherent in the newer programs. I am not seeing anything that suggests to me they are at all interested in matching up to Dorico. Indeed, the only recent statements I could find were very much oriented to SmartMusic and not Finale. If they actually are making a significant investment in the program (which I question), I suggest it would be wise for them to take note of the major advances in the past 2 years in both Dorico and Sibelius, and communicate much more openly with the Finale user base.
On 4/20/2018 5:57 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > I'm saying you are selling Finale short. While I agree 100% that > cautionaries (for example) are a problem, you are sellling it way short to > characterize it as a mere note paint program. (Accis in particular, are now > completely controlled by code, as opposed to relying on the document data, > so all it would take is for them to add the code for cautionaries.) Finale > has always had a paradigm that was designed for dynamic adjustment to > revisions. There is absolutely nothing stopping Makemusic from implementing > much of that right now. It just has not been their priority for many > frustrating years. > > Where Finale is fundamentally limited is in being chained to barlines. To > the extent Dorico capitalizes on its (presumed) lack of such limitation, > Finale will struggle to keep up, no matter how committed the company > becomes to catching up. But I also am unsure how much it matters for the > huge majority of music notation users. > > Finale could do so much more for its users and always could have. I share > your frustration. But I also work very quickly in it and have developed a > workflow that often lets me do (for example) page layout of linked parts in > just a few clicks. (That really depends on the complexity of the music.) I > know they have not stopped working on it, and they still have many senior > developers. I wouldn't count them out yet. > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ 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
