Klarinet Archive - Posting 000658.txt from 1999/10

From: Simon_Aldrich@-----.ca (Simon Aldrich)
Subj: [kl] Fie on Finale
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 21:48:46 -0400

Regarding Finale, Oliver wrote:

>That's a fitting indictment of the hasty introduction of new versions.

The mother of all hasty introductions of new versions was the major
upgrade
of Finale to version 3.5. I was using 3.0 and upgraded to 3.5 only to
find
that there was no single 16th-note stem. If you wanted to write a single
16th-note you were out of luck. The stem was just a big square.
They are the supposed leader in music notation software and their major
upgrade to 3.5 gets through testing with no 16th-note stem!

>Has anyone else ever had problems with versions 3.0 and/or 3.7?

I am currently using Finale 3.7.2 (Mac) and it constantly gives erroneous
messages saying there is not enough memory to run Finale. I have 96 MB
of RAM and have doubled Finale's memory requirement, to no avail.

>Fie on Coda Software

I second that motion, if only for its user-unfriendliness.

Simon Aldrich

Principal Clarinet - Montreal Opera Orchestra
Principal Clarinet - Montreal Metropolitain Orchestra
Nouvel Ensemble Moderne

Clarinet Instructor - University of Sherbrooke

simona@-----.org
(514) 843-7550

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