Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpfcso!mic
From: mic@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Marc Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Finale experience ?
Message-ID: <7180014@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Mar 91 01:20:16 GMT
References: <140@twisto.compaq.com>
Organization: HP/CTG/DTL/HARP-Group, Ft. Collins, CO
Lines: 34

> / hpfcso:comp.music / dixon@twisto.compaq.com (Dixon Dick) /  8:38 am  Mar 21, 1991 /
> I wonder if someone can tell me a couple of things about Finale:
> 
> 	- Is it copy-protected ?

No.

> 	- Can I use the Adobe Sonata font ?

Yes.  It is supplied as part of the Finale package.

> 	- What kind of memory limitations during MIDI recording
> 	  might I run into ?

According to the Coda Music support staff, none.  The program writes
its data to disk on the fly (unlike Music Printer Plus, which has a
64Kbyte data limitation in RAM).  The Macintosh version of Finale does
have a limit to the maximum size of a MIDI file you can convert into a
Finale data base.  The PC version of Finale does not have this
limitation.

> I ask these questions after having done a "try before you buy" on
> Music Printer Plus, Personal Composer and some other cheaper stuff.

A very sound policy.  So have I.  Somehow the marketing literature
forgets to discuss essential limitations in data space and file size,
and also forgets to talk about copy protection.

> %  Dixon Chan Dick  (dixon@twisto.compaq.com)   Compaq Computer Corp.	 %
> %									 %
> % "All dumb opinions expressed here are mine and not Compaq's etc. etc." %
> ----------

I urge everyone to boycott copy-protected products.