Re: [Finale] Dead OS9 was: Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-18 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 19.08.2003 1:18 Uhr, Robert Patterson Finale wrote >> >> I for one actually wish that MM abandon OS 9 sooner rather than later. I >> have seen several apps which suffered from being carbon. They are slow, >> sluggish, and compromised. > > I can't speak about your experiences with Bias Peak. I

Re: Screen Rotation (was [Finale] Dead OS9)

2003-08-18 Thread RockyRoad
RockyRoad wrote: Does this really matter on a 21" monitor running 1600x1200? It is precisely on monitors of this size where screen rotation really begins to kick in for Finale users. (FWIW, what gave me the rush was rotating a 24" LCD panel that is 1920x1200.) The reason is that you have enou

[Finale] Re: Screen Rotation

2003-08-18 Thread John Hines
> If you have a 1280x1024 or larger screen (even a CRT) running Windows, you can get an idea what it's like by > downloading the free Pivot Pro demo from portraitdisplays.com. My computer is capable of rotation configured as it was bought. I didn't have to add any software for this. Could it be

Re: Screen Rotation (was [Finale] Dead OS9)

2003-08-18 Thread Robert Patterson Finale
RockyRoad wrote: > > Does this really matter on a 21" monitor running 1600x1200? > It is precisely on monitors of this size where screen rotation really begins to kick in for Finale users. (FWIW, what gave me the rush was rotating a 24" LCD panel that is 1920x1200.) The reason is that you have

Re: Screen Rotation (was [Finale] Dead OS9)

2003-08-18 Thread RockyRoad
The lack of screen rotation is actually the rich, meaty, heart of my beef with OSX. And it brings this message squarely back on-topic. Simply put, if you are a Finale user and you've never used screen rotation, it's like you've never had sex. The first time I looked at an orchestra score in scr

RE: [Finale] Re: Hope there is a Finale Free 2004 for OSX

2003-08-18 Thread RockyRoad
I understand why the Make Music folk are reintroducing copy protection after an experience yesterday. One of my students at the local Conservatorium was given a Finale 2003 CD by a high school teacher to take home and copy. I wonder how much of this goes on? He doesn't seem to know how to use it, b

[Finale] Exotic Finale Lifestyles

2003-08-18 Thread John Bell
At 5:00 pm -0700 18.08.2003, JD wrote: if you are a Finale user and you've never used screen rotation, it's like you've never had sex. The first time I looked at an orchestra score in screen rotation, it was near orgasmic. When I've shown it to other experienced Finale users, the catch in thei

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-18 Thread Mark D Lew
On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 11:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then I looked at the system requirements...Mac OS 9.x, plus at least 200 MB of empty hard drive space. Let's see...I'm running OS 8.6 on my Mac at home and at school (so I can still use Microsoft Works, which I haven't had an

Re: [Finale] Dead OS9 was: Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-18 Thread JD
on 8/18/03 4:18 PM, Robert Patterson Finale at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Com'on. What's screen rotation support got to do with any of this? > > The lack of screen rotation is actually the rich, meaty, heart of my beef with > OSX. And it brings this message squarely back on-topic. Simply put, if

Re: [Finale] Dead OS9 was: Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-18 Thread Robert Patterson Finale
Johannes Gebauer wrote: > OS 9 never had any MIDI support other than the old MIDI manager. Anything > that went beyond this was 3rd party. Well, third party or not, the point is that the OSX solutions are not yet here. The fact that they were 3rd party seems completely superfluous to me, espec

Re: [Finale] OS9 Alive? Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-18 Thread Robert Patterson Finale
Darcy James Argue wrote: > > Hey, don't blame me. Steve Jobs held a mock "funeral" for OS 9 over a > year ago. He lives on Reality Distortion Planet, not this one. > no sane developer is going to continue > to invest in OS 9 On the contrary, most sane developers, like MakeMusic, are having

[Finale] Another Finale/OSX Mac question

2003-08-18 Thread mbanner
If I do shell out for a new Mac and OSX, does anyone know if i'll be able to load Finale 3.7.2 onto it and run that version (in addition to Finale 2003 and 2004), as I have a large number of files in that format. Martin Martin Banner Monticello, New York

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-18 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Robert, I usually agree with a lot of what you say, but I cannot let this go uncommented: On 18.08.2003 23:53 Uhr, Robert Patterson Finale wrote > Darcy James Argue wrote: >> OS 9 is long dead > > I just can't let this go by. Long dead??!!! Apple went to OSX-only booting > fully a year too soon

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-18 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 05:53 PM, Robert Patterson Finale wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: OS 9 is long dead I just can't let this go by. Long dead??!!! Hey, don't blame me. Steve Jobs held a mock "funeral" for OS 9 over a year ago. You may feel the burial was premature, or the heir unq

RE: [Finale] Re: Hope there is a Finale Free 2004 for OSX

2003-08-18 Thread David McKay
It is great when teachers have integrity and don't simply give kids copies of the full version to take home and copy off, as I discovered happened with one of my students at our Conservatorium, yesterday. But I don't think the teacher taught him how to use it! I understand where Make Music is comi

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-18 Thread Robert Patterson Finale
Darcy James Argue wrote: > OS 9 is long dead I just can't let this go by. Long dead??!!! Apple went to OSX-only booting fully a year too soon, and are at least morally guilty of negligence for doing so. OSX still does not have proper MIDI support. (The current CoreMIDI situation is a [EMAIL PRO

[Finale] Re: Hope there is a Finale Free 2004 for OSX

2003-08-18 Thread RockyRoad
David Stonestreet wrote: That free version is a great way to get my students introduced to Finale. Three bought the full version this year after starting on Free. I hope there will be one that runs in OSX. Agreed. Upon telling the computer guy at the school at which I teach about the new Final

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-18 Thread Richard Huggins
I run Mac F2k2 using OS 8.6 on a non-G3 Powerbook 3400 with 3GB HD space, SCSCI-connected to a Powerbook 1400 (acting as a SCSI drive) for a total of 6 GB. The external PB is full up and the main PB has <1MB available. Until I can upgrade my CPU I will "upgrade" to OS 9 ( since I can't run OS X) an

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-18 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 03:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was delighted to see the announcement of Finale 2004 for Mac, mainly because, after years of begging and begging, "smart hyphens" have finally been included!!! Yippee!!! And then I looked at the system requirements...Mac OS 9.

[Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-18 Thread mbanner
I was delighted to see the announcement of Finale 2004 for Mac, mainly because, after years of begging and begging, "smart hyphens" have finally been included!!! Yippee!!! And then I looked at the system requirements...Mac OS 9.x, plus at least 200 MB of empty hard drive space. Let's see...I'm

[Finale] Re: Hope there is a Finale Free 2004 for OSX

2003-08-18 Thread Matthew Hindson Fastmail Acct
David Stonestreet wrote: > That free version is a great way to get my students introduced to > Finale. Three bought the full version this year after starting on > Free. I hope there will be one that runs in OSX. Agreed. Upon telling the computer guy at the school at which I teach about the new F

Re: [Finale] Hope there is a Finale Free 2004 for OSX

2003-08-18 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
RockyRoad wrote: > That free version is a great way to get my students introduced to > Finale. Three bought the full version this year after starting on > Free. I hope there will be one that runs in OSX. Past experience would suggest that there will be an 2004 version of Notepad; I don't look f

[Finale] Hope there is a Finale Free 2004 for OSX

2003-08-18 Thread RockyRoad
That free version is a great way to get my students introduced to Finale. Three bought the full version this year after starting on Free. I hope there will be one that runs in OSX. RockyRoad -- David Stonestreet ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED