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Shnootre
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| Posted 8/16/2016 10:20 PM (GMT -6) |   | I downloaded the trial today, and was able pretty seamlessly to continue a large project I'm in the middle of. Usually I would never switch mid-project, but FIN 2014.5 was becoming very unstable for me.
Here are a few things I notice on the first night of work:
Playback seems better. Better sensitivity to dynamics. I am currently running VE Pro from within Finale, so most of my samples are housed externally. I just got that system up and running a few days ago, and it worked absolutely fine in 25.
The tall time signatures look cool. It is by no means as simple as the advertising would have you believe. 12 steps, and then some trial and error. (I did it once years ago, and can't imagine that it was that much more complicated back in the day). I almost wondered if I had followed old instructions or something...
The prog. crashed the first time I clicked on Audio Units and Effects, but since then has been stable.
Cutting and pasting seems a little faster than in 2014.5, though still a touch sluggish (but this is a very big file).
I exported an audio file and it worked fine. Nothing remarkable there, but Fin 2014 had stopped doing a good job of it for me.
I guess the main thing is that it feels basically very similar. I know there are big changes under the hood - especially the jump to 64-bit, and I'm not complaining - just noting that you're unlikely to be shocked by a completely new prog.
OH - also, the file type remains the same, and the new files can be opened without problem or conversion in Fin 2014.5. The tall time signatures were there too when I opened it.
This means that if you adopt the new prog., work in it for a while, and then decide it's not for you, you can easily downgrade.
All for now - this based on about 2 hours of working with it. Will report more.
Daniel Sonenberg
Macbook Pro 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7
OSX 10.9.4
16 gig ram
GPO4 full and JABB3
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Mike Rosen
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| Posted 8/17/2016 9:06 AM (GMT -6) | | | |
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Vaughan
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Date Joined Jun 1999
Total Posts : 4984
| Posted 8/17/2016 9:27 AM (GMT -6) | | I wrote the following in the thread about the release of Finale 25. It might be useful for people looking for the preferences file!
Finale 25 seems to work well and there are quite a few improvements. I did have a problem after the initial installation after I tried to change the preferences and add files I need, like spacing libraries, templates, etc. My first mistake was doing everything in one go instead of carefully and incrementally. I also made the silly mistake of trying to install old plugins and corrected this after Finale started crashing on startup. I removed all those files but Finale wouldn't start. I even tried reinstalling Finale but that didn't help, either. As usual in cases like this, I tried deleting the preferences file but it took awhile to find it. Instead of being called 'Finale 2014.5 Preferences' (or equivalent), the file is now called 'com.makemusic.finale.fprf' which puts it quite a distance away from the older Finale preference files and makes it easy to miss it. After deleting this file, Finale started up again and I redid my preferences more carefully. I still don't understand why it didn't work after I removed the 32-bit plugins, but it might also have had to do with my choice of folders in Preferences/Folders.
Vaughan
Finale 3.2 - 2014.5, Sibelius 4 - 7
Tobias Giesen's plugins, full version, Robert Patterson plugins, Dolet 6 plugin
MacOS 10.11.5
MacPro (2016) 16 GB, MacBookPro (2011) 8 GB
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Motet
Isorhythmic
Date Joined Dec 2002
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| Posted 8/17/2016 11:44 AM (GMT -6) | | | |
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