Finale 2011 now shipping. Prepare to be underwhelmed
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MIDI Life Crisis
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Re: Finale 2011 now shipping. Prepare to be underwhelmed
You didn't get your $20 off coupon? Really! $20 is 1/4 a tank of gas, 1/2 a bag of cheap groceries, or almost 2 car washes. Bourbon pancakes all around!!!
Re: Finale 2011 now shipping. Prepare to be underwhelmed
And bacon? C'mon, ya gotta have bacon.
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MIDI Life Crisis
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Re: Finale 2011 now shipping. Prepare to be underwhelmed
Nice to have you back in time with us. Lol
Re: Finale 2011 now shipping. Prepare to be underwhelmed
Phil O wrote:And bacon? C'mon, ya gotta have bacon.
See what I'm sayin'?MIDI Life Crisis wrote:Nice to have you back in time with us. Lol
Thick-sliced, country style, apple wood-smoked...
Ouch.
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Re: Finale 2011 now shipping. Prepare to be underwhelmed
Well, they did a spammer e-mail with $20 off for a limited time, then they came back with a Haiti Disaster discount offer where $10-20 was to be donated.MIDI Life Crisis wrote:You didn't get your $20 off coupon? Really! $20 is 1/4 a tank of gas, 1/2 a bag of cheap groceries, or almost 2 car washes. Bourbon pancakes all around!!!
Yeah-- $20 is 1/4 tank of gas, but not doing the upgrades have still saved me $300 at this point.
It's not the $20 saved. It's the $100/year spent that worries me the most.
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mikehalloran
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Re: Finale 2011 now shipping. Prepare to be underwhelmed
I am debating it, too. Not sure I'll do it this year.
Now that Encore finally works w/ v5.0.5, I may hold off on Finale till next year.
Encore has been my "down 'n dirty" tool for church arrangements and lead sheets etc. As a professional tool, it's a joke but I find it pretty fast for what I use it for. The big stuff is done in Finale, of course.
Now that Encore finally works w/ v5.0.5, I may hold off on Finale till next year.
Encore has been my "down 'n dirty" tool for church arrangements and lead sheets etc. As a professional tool, it's a joke but I find it pretty fast for what I use it for. The big stuff is done in Finale, of course.
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Re: Finale 2011 now shipping. Prepare to be underwhelmed
I started in the 90s on Encore and wanted to go back but just can't justify the price for the new version that is still so outdated compared to other features.
I recently tried all the notation options and beside the obvious that Finale and Sibelius are still the top picks...
Well, the FREE open-source MuseScore program is amazingly far along. For preparing printed scores it can almost rival the top players. It's still quirky and there's bugs to be fixed, but I'm really impressed. Every item can be moved or adjusted however you like and the auto-spacing is good too. Any tuplet or time sig is possible. Every note can have all its MIDI data edited through contextual menu. There may eventually be a piano-roll option too (the image of one is done but it isn't functional yet). I especially like that it edits pitch by the CENT instead of by Pitch-bend number. Actually that feature beats the heck out of Finale/Sibelius or even DP! Because MuseScore edits individual note pitches to the CENT and so you can have multiple edited pitches in a chord without any concern about MIDI channel! So you can have a just intonation chord all at once easily!
A plug-in writing architecture exists and the whole project is extremely promising.
musescore.org to try the near release candidate current version...
I recently tried all the notation options and beside the obvious that Finale and Sibelius are still the top picks...
Well, the FREE open-source MuseScore program is amazingly far along. For preparing printed scores it can almost rival the top players. It's still quirky and there's bugs to be fixed, but I'm really impressed. Every item can be moved or adjusted however you like and the auto-spacing is good too. Any tuplet or time sig is possible. Every note can have all its MIDI data edited through contextual menu. There may eventually be a piano-roll option too (the image of one is done but it isn't functional yet). I especially like that it edits pitch by the CENT instead of by Pitch-bend number. Actually that feature beats the heck out of Finale/Sibelius or even DP! Because MuseScore edits individual note pitches to the CENT and so you can have multiple edited pitches in a chord without any concern about MIDI channel! So you can have a just intonation chord all at once easily!
A plug-in writing architecture exists and the whole project is extremely promising.
musescore.org to try the near release candidate current version...