From the Final website:

"While Finale 2007 runs natively in Intel-based Macs, certain components made by third party providers are not yet available in a Universal Binary format. We expect to have free, downloadable updates for these features this fall. In the meantime, you will need to run Finale in Rosetta to use SmartScore® Lite Scanning and the KONTAKT™ Player 2 which is used to play the included GPO Sounds."

To be fair, these are 3rd party applications, but MakeMusic does include them or sell them for or with Finale.  And there are many more applications that can be used with Finale that are not yet IntelMac compatible.  (For example, I also use the EastWest EWQLSO Silver Edition samples - which use the Kontakt player.)

But I can be a little more patient waiting for the Kontakt player update!  (It affects me much more with my sequencer app - Logic Pro - as *all* my current sample libraries use the Kontakt player.)

- Bob Shuster


Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 18:14:47 -0400
From: Darcy James Argue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Finale] Re: Finale vs. Sibelius
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On 07 Oct 2006, at 1:47 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:


On Oct 7, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Bob Shuster wrote:

.  I'm also anxious to see when it will be completely compatible  
with the Intel Macs (I have a MacPro machine) - particularly for  
my Garritan GPO and JABB libraries - which are currently unusable.

Good news, Bob - AFAIK, FinMac2007 is already completely native on  
Intel Macs - way to be ahead of the curve, MakeMusic! So you don't  
have to wait.

Not quite -- Kontakt Player is not Universal yet, so if he wants to  
use GPO/JABB, he will have to run Finale under Rosetta. And as you  
might expect GPO/JABB performance under Rosetta is unusuably slow.

Cheers,

- Darcy
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Brooklyn, NY

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