Re: [Finale] PrintMusic to CD

2003-08-10 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Noel wrote: Tom Daish wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have any advice on how to convert music from PrintMusic to a format that can be made into a CD-R to be played on a regular CD player. Later this week, when MakeMusic! announces the availability of Finale 2004, upgrade.

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 Review

2003-08-10 Thread David H. Bailey
Tobias Giesen wrote: [snip] The only problem would be when they cease to exist. But even then, you must be aware that there are some very nice people behind this. MakeMusic employees are Finale users, just like you and me. I'm sure these people will make Finale survive, including older

RE: [Finale] Re: Registration codes and copyright

2003-08-10 Thread Tobias Giesen
Hi, a) Win98 does not need activation codes, so Microsoft can phase it out and not worry about it any more. b) as Benjamin pointed out, making your product unusable by refusing activation codes at some point in the future is illegal in the States as well as in Europe. It is therefore

Re: [Finale] It's here -- Finale 2004!

2003-08-10 Thread Tim Thompson
Yes, I see it now on the email, but didn't see it on the website. Tim On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 02:37 PM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: At 2:19 PM -0400 8/06/03, Tim Thompson wrote: It sure looks like a big upgrade so far. I will be interested to see if the MIDI workings have been

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 Review

2003-08-10 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
Folks -- This looked like it might be an excellent upgrade. For some it may be. I personally cannot make any software purchase which ties my future use of the product to someone else's continued benevolence and the continuing existence of their servers. I purchased the Finale 2004 update on

[Finale] Finale future

2003-08-10 Thread Ole Buck
But both Tobias and I can be somewhat cheerful about it, because in that hopefully unlikely scenario, either one or both of us could fairly easily write a program to downgrade the files. Besides you have Johannes and Jari, I think also Dennis and Phil, so we don't have to worry, oh, I think the

Re: [Finale] TAN: What maketh a musician?

2003-08-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 04:27 PM, John Howell wrote: A co-worker insists that a deejay is a musician. I say that is a load, that at most he is perhaps an editer or producer. Can a legitimate case be made in his defense? Absolutelyl not! He does not create or recreate music, he uses

Re: [Finale] 2004 registration

2003-08-10 Thread David H. Bailey
Seems clear, as far as it goes. We don't even have the original release, yet, though, let alone the maintenance release. Will it come before the Mac version? I certainly hope not -- those poor Mac people have been waiting [mostly] patiently for far too long for an OSX version! But whenever

Re: [Finale] RE: 2004 Panic

2003-08-10 Thread William Roberts
David H. Bailey wrote: Then you have to contact Sibelius (which does NOT have 24/7 live or electronic installation assistance) and meekly ask for permission to start using your legally purchased software again. I can't believe that I sound like a Sibelius apologist, but in the interest of

Re: [Finale] TAN: 2-Up Printing with Acrobat Reader

2003-08-10 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 11:14 AM 8/7/03 -0400, Andrew Stiller wrote: Apropos of this: I print extracted parts and vocal scores in booklet format, which requires, on the Mac, that the Page Setup be set to different dimensions and orientation than the file's own layout. Many of the composers and editors I work with

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004

2003-08-10 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 03:14 PM, Éric Dussault wrote: Wouldn'd it have been great if the Finale 2004 advertisement on MakeMusic's website could be made so they can be viewed by a macintosh computer. All the sound samples with soundfonts and musical playback are not compatible with

Re: [Finale] Fin2004 Discount

2003-08-10 Thread Rich Caldwell
The e-mail was identified as spam by one of the filters I have, so it might get by some people without them knowing. AFAIK, the discount is only for those who purchased 2002, and, they assume, didn't get the 2003 upgrade since it wasn't OS X compatible. The discount is from the regular upgrade

Re: [Finale] Re: The Panic Room

2003-08-10 Thread David H. Bailey
It's a device which plugs into a specific port (parallel, serial, joystick, whatever) and must be attached to your computer because the software that it came with will try to find it on your system. If it isn't attached, or for some reason it isn't working, the software simply will not run.

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 Copy Protection

2003-08-10 Thread David H. Bailey
Robert Patterson Finale wrote: But both Tobias and I can be somewhat cheerful about it, because in that hopefully unlikely scenario, either one or both of us could fairly easily write a program to downgrade the files. :-) Are you taking pre-orders? If so, please put my name on the list! ;-)

RE: The Panic Room, was: RE: [Finale] Re: Registration codes and copyright

2003-08-10 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 09:31 AM 8/9/03 +0200, Tobias Giesen wrote: If Coda stopped the software activation at some point in the future, they would a) void the original sales contract b) cancel the license agreement c) violate your property rights etc. This would be against all rules of trading. They are

Re: [Finale] 2004 registration

2003-08-10 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 8:00 AM -0400 8/10/03, Éric Dussault wrote: This is an excerpt from MakeMusic techsupport (Tyler Turner) read on MM's forum As we explained in the FAQ, we are including a mechanism in a maintenance release of Finale 2004 that will let you transfer the saving/printing from one computer to

Re: [Finale] Re: The Panic Room

2003-08-10 Thread RockyRoad
I wonder- am I the only one thinking that a dongle is not something one talks about in mixed company? But I strongly suspect that it's actually something 'computerish' that I have never heard of! What the hell is a dongle?? Cheers, Keith in OZ Its a little hardware box that you attach to a USB

RE: [Finale] It's here -- Finale 2004!

2003-08-10 Thread Tobias Giesen
Hi, the release dates are not on every page, but they are on many, right below the Pre-Order button. For example, on: http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/f2k4/ftr-smsenhancements.asp Cheers, Tobias ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Finale] 2004 Panic

2003-08-10 Thread helgesen
I'm really a little fish in a big pond here! I've just ploughed through a load of comments from people I respect hugely for their expertise and savvy (business and musical!) When I see that some of my 'idols' are not going to use 2004 because of etc,etc, I get cold sweats. Years ago I had