"Never take life seriously; no-one gets out alive anyway."

 

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I'd like an easy way to line up the endpoints of crescendoes and diminuendoes that doesn't involve having to then fix all the startpoints.

 

Also, the ability to simply cut+paste hairpins (not this cr4p with messing constantly with the Filter).

 

I'd like to see Smart Lines work more like slurs—select a begining note, select an end note... voilà, a perfectly placed tr(b, #, nat, whatever)~~~~~~~~ sign with the last ~~ hanging just past the end note. That'd save me a ton of fiddly time.

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woodwind specialist and doubler - Finale 2011! using Speedy Entry - no capslock, GPO 2nd ed. Full version, Garritan Jazz & Big Band, Garritan Concert and Marching Band, Windows Vista 32-bit SP1, 4GB RAM, Soundblaster Audigy II zs

If the composer says in effect to the performer: "I do not care whether you perform my music or not," we cannot argue the matter. But if he indicates: "I want you to perform and respond to this music," then his fundamental duty is to write his music so that it is accessible to interpretation. When the performer cannot approach the composer's meaning because of capriciously obscure notation, he may in effect say to the composer: "Why should I bother to puzzle out your music?" - Gardner Read

 

I would like to add that it might be even better if the new version installed with the default settings but had an option to change those settings to the settings in a previous installation. That would allow people to more readily see changes then, with very little effort and if they so choose, fetch the settings from the previous version (a menu one could use to tic individual items on or off would be nice) and apply them to the new version.

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Jeannie

 

Allegro 2005, Allegro 2007, Finale 2010 (not yet installed) XP Pro

 

It would also be nice if the spacing of the dashed slurs and ties (or the spacing of notes, as now happens with solid ties) would automatically adjust (while retaining the ability for the user to tweak as needed). Here is a portion of a post I made in another thread;

 

...Besides the lack of tapered ends, the length and spacing of the slurs is fixed so the end is frequently too short or just isn't there, depending on the length of the slur or "tie." Once my page layout is completed, I have to go back and adjust the slur and "tie" lengths or tweak measure and note spacing to get things to come out reasonably well looking. And, as Mike also pointed out, playback suffers if using ties created from slurs (although playback is less important to me than the appearance of the printed music).

I haven't even gotten around to installing Finale 2010 yet and wasn't planning on upgrading anytime soon but if MM fixes the dashed slurs and adds true dashed ties, I would be all over that like stink on...dead fish. While somehow tying playback to the presence of lyric and word extensions would be nice, the lack of it wouldn't be a deal breaker for me.

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Jeannie

 

Allegro 2005, Allegro 2007, Finale 2010 (not yet installed) XP Pro