![]() ![]() I keep remembering how the old MM people were and how different the Boulder folks are. One thing for sure is MM could help by not being so closed off from its user base. The smufl font upgrade was a real upgrade and will be a strong advantage as it matures. Somebody in a management position sold the file sharing feature as a big deal and all would embrace it. MM management apparently doesn't see a real return spending such resources in improving Finale. Companies are always looking to conserve resources whenever possible. No money to do it or don't have the technical talent to do it. MM or any company don't do things because, one of, or both of, two reasons. Dorico just isn't ready for prime time yet. Believe me Sibelius has its own set of quirks. I have a good friend that makes his living composing music. Perhaps it doesn't sound like it but music is an expensive degree. Music majors are generally broke all the time. At KU in the music department where I am very familiar the kids use Musescore for only one reason. I have heard rumors that Musescore 4 is about to be released so we'll see if that brings it closer. Musescore is not even in the same zipcode as Finale. Would I start learning it today, probably not. Yes, I am still using it, because I used it for 25 years. So many things young people are used to won't work in Finale. We can not even select non-consecutive music and copy it. Or try to option-drag text or a chord symbol to quickly duplicate it. Yes, we still can not add our own key commands to a menu idem. To demonstrate how far behind Finale is, just think of the fact that it doesn't even have a key command editor. But this is not enough to bring in new customers. Is Finale better? Sure, especially if you need the advanced features it offers, like I do. ![]() At my College 95 percent of our students now prefer Musescore over Finale. No iPad version, a user interface that is completely outdated, sluggish in so many ways, and still not fun to learn at all. Do you younger folks even know that Finale once was the unrivaled notation software for Mac and PC? Well, sleeping through the years, Finale has completely missed the train and has now been taken over by even free notation software like Musescore at Colleges and otherwise. I was one of the first guys back in Germany to start using Finale. ![]()
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