Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-10 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:15 AM 6/8/2007, dhbailey wrote: Sibelius 5 has been announced, and final barrier to many Finale users has fallen. They now have their version of scroll-view, called Panorama. Yes, that was my first thought as well. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing

[Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread dhbailey
Sibelius 5 has been announced, and final barrier to many Finale users has fallen. They now have their version of scroll-view, called Panorama. For many of us, that has been a major sticking point in converting our workflow to Sibelius, and with this new release, scheduled to ship at the end

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jun 8, 2007, at 7:36 AM, shirling neueweise wrote: Sibelius has had linked score/parts since version 4, and they have some of the same problems that Finale's version has, but there has been a lot less complaining on the Sibelius list than on the Finale list here. you know i am

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread shirling neueweise
well, just because they have new features doesn't mean they are taking its users more seriously. You know, this is just so off the mark on this point I had to reply. it's not off the mark at all. i didn't say sibelius wasn't taking some users in the case of major bugs seriously; i said

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread shirling neueweise
Well, isn't it obvious? what, that the marketing for sib5 is modelled after that of fin04/06? yeah. check out the list of ahem features on the sib site. more than half are upgrades to anadequacies in the programme or bug fixes, and then for good measure, the final feature is Various bugs

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Jun 2007 at 8:13, Christopher Smith wrote: the clipboard for music seems moderately interesting, Seems pretty easy to implement, though I'm not sure why. I usually just use scratch staves within the same file. cut-and-paste to Word for musical examples certainly saves some fudging

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Jun 2007 at 8:13, Christopher Smith wrote: On the plus side for Sib, Paste as cue seems to save a mouse click or two over running a plugin in Finale Reading between the lines of other features that impinge on cues notes, it seems like it's implemented in a way that works with linked

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Jun 2007 at 8:38, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Three months ago, I found a bug that Sibelius has with Music XML (yah, I'm of the camp that got feed up with Finale and am migrating to Sibelius). Daniel Spreadbury, who works for Sibelius saw my message on the list about my troubles, asked me

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Eh, the only thing that looks NEW is the Idea thing. The other stuff...who cares? They have a Scroll View. Wow. Cool. Finally. And a new hand font. Wooo. And GPO sounds. Oooo. Look, if you want to go, go. Until Sibelius can open my Finale files without MusicXML, I'm staying with Finale. I

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Jun 2007 at 8:13, Christopher Smith wrote: the clipboard for music seems moderately interesting, Seems pretty easy to implement, though I'm not sure why. I usually just use scratch staves within the same file. cut-and-paste to Word for musical examples

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Jun 2007 at 15:57, dhbailey wrote: Using the Mixer window you can assign any of the installed devices to any staff, so the answer is Yes you can use the Kontakt player for some staves and any other midi device for other staves. Sib4 doesn't come with a soundfont

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Jun 2007 at 8:13, Christopher Smith wrote: the clipboard for music seems moderately interesting, Seems pretty easy to implement, though I'm not sure why. I usually just use scratch staves within the same file. Yeah, but this looks like a repository

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Jun 2007 at 14:08, Eric Dannewitz wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Jun 2007 at 8:13, Christopher Smith wrote: the clipboard for music seems moderately interesting, Seems pretty easy to implement, though I'm not sure why. I usually just use scratch staves within the

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 08.06.2007 Aaron Sherber wrote: It does look like it's the eqiuivalent of Fin2007's Add Cue Notes and then apply the Blank Notation with Rests staff style, all in one pass. (Though frankly, the limitations of this staff style in Finale are one of the reasons I still do a separate parts