Coda Music recently informed users that Finale 2003 would be available for the Macintosh, but will not included native support for Mac OS X. "Finale users have been clamoring for an OS X-native version for a year now, and it looks like we will have to wait yet another year," writes Andy Grobengieser, a MacNN reader. A similar product, called Sibelius, currently supports Mac OS X as a competitor of Finale.
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Coda has been annoying me for several years. I mean, Finale 2003 will be the first version of the software that doesn't have a black and white interface, fahchrissake. So many of the features they tack on are superfluous, their focus has got to be making Finale OS X native. I'm thinking hard about switching to Sibelius, and if my recording and sequencing apps (Pro Tools, DP3, etc) go OS X native before the inevitable Finale 2004, I will surely switch.
I don't know how they managed it, but according to Coda's website, you can use Finale in OS X through the Classic layer and it will work. Whether this means full MIDI support, I dunno. It sounds promising, though!
Bah! This is no surprise - look: Coda is turning their nose up at users ...or, dropping their pants and facing away from you.
I had to use Finale as an undergrad, years ago in a music-lab. There was a little documented (one page in one of the three tomes) feature: you had to have twice as much free space on your disk, as the size of your file. Otherwise, the program would EAT info out of your file to make it "fit." HELLO? Any /decent/ programmer would have set up Finale to throw up a warning message and/or disallow saving under such a scenario.
The time came to buy my own music notation program, and I BOUGHT SOMETHING ELSE.
Now, I use Sibelius, and love it. If you do a lot of neumatic notation (i.e. neumes), stick to Finale. Otherwise, get rid of it.
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time to switch
I've been waiting for an OS X native Finale since I switched to OS X full-time. I e-mailed Coda Music, and they said that a native client wouldn't be out before Finale 2003 came out...and now it's gonna be even longer. I've gone ahead and ordered Sibelius using their competitive upgrade deal ($199, if you send your Finale CD to them). I hope Finale gets on the ball soon, otherwise they may find others doing the same.