Ok, so, what is the BIG issue with Finale 2014 that will prevent me from upgrading. What? Don’t remember when Finale had Notemover? They killed it off a few versions ago and replaced it with this “universal selector” thing, which I think was actually the way to go (though it has some issues in how it works). Plus, Finale isn’t 64bit, so you can’t really load up a huge sample orchestra in Finale and have it play. The Garritan sounds, while very great sounding in 2001, are not really that great sounding now. Ok……now anyone that uses Finale for playback….really? I mean, it’s NEVER worked well for me, and the playback is Cheezy at best. New sound engine and playback and more Garritan sounds. Supposedly, didn’t really notice when I was using the demo. Supposedly it’s all Cocoa on the Mac, meaning the UI looks more Mac-like now. Yes, there are some other “new” features. And the stupid program can finally….or Finale….no no, finally….save to older versions and future versions of Finale won’t have to convert files to the “new” format every time they are opened. It’s easy to do a keyless score now, and when you do crescendos and stuff, it will smartly adjust the size of them.
Those are basically the new/interesting things in Finale 2014.
#Finale notepad 09 update#
It is REALLY hard to tell what the new stuff is or why you should update to it. Now, they have just released Finale 2014. It works, but it has issues like all software. So we went about 2 years with Finale 2012. Meanwhile, MakeMusic got bought and the new owners pledged to continue making Finale, but not at it’s regular yearly update cycle.
The future of Sibelius is sort of up in the air as they sacked their great development team due to Avid, the parent company, having issues (they also sold off the M-Audio line of products at the same time). There are two BIG players in the music notation field.
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