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 |  Ron. Composer

       Date Joined Mar 2003 Total Posts : 8828 | Posted 9/4/2016 7:02 PM (GMT -6) |   | That's not quite "about all that has been delivered." MM has undergone a majoring restructuring, moved across the country, losing a significant portion of their staff and having to bring new staff up-to-speed, as well as being absorbed by new owners who also needed time to understand what they had bought. Considering all that, and the effort to port to 64-bit architecture (which is hardly as minor as some who were busy insulting MM staff three years ago were suggesting), MM has addressed a number of outstanding issues, and delivered a robust and workable product.
Yes, it can be improved and there are some outstanding issues that need addressing. But, having said all that, how about acknowledging what they have accomplished instead of dismissing it or complaining that they didn't do it soon enough to suit you? Finale 25
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     |  gogreen Registered Member

       Date Joined Dec 1999 Total Posts : 1618 | Posted 9/3/2016 8:01 AM (GMT -6) |   | Ralph L. Bowers Jr. said... I don't know why (MM) does not come to some agreement with Jari to include at least the six most useful (for me) plugins with Finale. JW Change JW Staff Polyphony JW Meter and Rhythm JW Pattern JW Change Pitches JW Yada Yada Tremolo
I use JW Copy Part Layout the most and it saves me hours of work. Arthur J. Michaels
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     |  Ralph L. Bowers Jr. Polymathist

       Date Joined May 2012 Total Posts : 883 | Posted 9/2/2016 8:59 PM (GMT -6) |   | "....I don't know why some of the JW plug-ins are not a part of the software. They do things that Finale should do and is reasonably expected to."
I don't know why (MM) does not come to some agreement with Jari to include at least the six most useful (for me) plugins with Finale. JW Change JW Staff Polyphony JW Meter and Rhythm JW Pattern JW Change Pitches JW Yada Yada Tremolo Finale 2010b, 2011b, 2012c, 2014d, 2014.5 TGTools Pro, Patterson plugins, JW plugins (current for each Finale Instalation) Sibelius 6.2, 7.1.3, 7.5.1, 8.4.2, Write Score Sound Sets, TMT Publisher Bundle Plugins, Bob Zawalich plugins, Dolet 6.6 Print Music 2004, 2010a, 2011a, 2014a Progression, Progression 2, Progression 3, Notion 4, [Notion 5, (bought but not installed)update finally installed] Pro Tools 9.5, Reaper Kontakt 5 GPO4, GPO5, World Instruments SmartScore X Pro, SmartScore X2 Pro, PhotoScore Ultimate 6 & 7 & 8.04 ( 7 has some utility----best of those available, 8 has some issues that need fixing) M-Audio "Oxygen 25" Midi input keyboard (recent addition 2014) Systems (5) // Windows XP Pro (32bit), 2@ Windows 7 Pro, 8.1 Pro, Windows 10 64 bit, 4GB - 16GB RAM Paper & Pencil
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        |  Motet Isorhythmic

       Date Joined Dec 2002 Total Posts : 12849 | Posted 9/2/2016 11:37 AM (GMT -6) |   | | |
  |  Ron. Composer

       Date Joined Mar 2003 Total Posts : 8828 | Posted 9/2/2016 8:52 AM (GMT -6) |   | To repeat something my critics are overlooking: I said that 64-bit processors in and of themselves are not inherently faster than 32-bit processors. Faster processing comes from other factors which 64-bit architecture makes possible. Under 32-bit architecture, if you load an orchestra that requires more than the max 4 GB available in 32-bit processing (in reality considerably less than that), then you will experience a significant slow-down in performance which you will not experience with a 64-bit processor, provided that your application is designed to address the additional RAM--which Finale 25 is programmed to do, unlike earlier versions of Finale. I don't know how much clearer I can make this. Finale 25
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   |  CraigP Registered Member
        Date Joined Apr 2013 Total Posts : 313 | Posted 9/1/2016 7:48 PM (GMT -6) |   | Motet said...
Is it in fact faster? With some knowledge of computer architecture I would be surprised if the 64-bit instructions were any faster than 32-bit instructions, but of course I've been known to be wrong. I understand start-up is faster, but that could be a matter of cleaning up what they do on initialization.
The speed improvements don't come from the 64-bit architecture. Finale 25 is mainly a port to 64-bit. That port naturally opens the door to 64-bit VSTs and larger address spaces. Those are generally not speed issues, but are certainly welcome.
However, this is not "all" that was done. Clearly there was a significant effort in the playback process and the performance results there are very clear. The playback start-up time is enough to give one a feeling of greater productivity.
Sadly, there aren't too many other areas that were improved, so if a person considered a lot of the Finale 2014 and 2014.5 behaviors to be bugs, most of that got ported directly to V25.
One area of development was the addition of ReWire. While we should applaud them for at least dipping a toe in the water, they implemented such a small part of ReWire as to make the ReWire support practically useless. They did remove a few features, but at least the file formats are compatible with 2014 and 2014.5, so you can use the older releases for those features if needed.
Personally, I think it is worth installing. It has been completely solid for me. I have not found any new bugs, although most of my old friends are still there. | | Back to Top | |
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