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It's interesting that in the PG Music online store you can buy a BIAB / Finale bundle. There seems to be some sort of relationship already between these two players.



Dave, I'm glad you pointed this out because I was going to. Finale costs how much? I completely agree with your complaints and would love to have PG implement your suggestions but Biab can't be everything to everybody. Read all the threads asking for complete note for note control over the Real Tracks. That would be great too but Melodyne probably has the tech locked up with their own patents and PG would have to make some kind of arrangement with them to to it, just like what we're talking about here with Finale. There's a similar sentiment that goes around here from time to time that PG should develop their own in house synth so they can ship Biab with good midi sounds. All these things can be done and it's purely a business decision as to whether to go in that direction or not. Considering there's already tons of synths on the market it probably would not be a good decision to pursue that and probably it's the same for creating a notation program to compete with Finale. I'm sure Finale and Sibelius cost what they do for a reason.

We live in a world of specialization and that's the way it is. One group of very smart people develop one thing, another group develops another thing and they only way for them to make money is to protect what they've developed. It's easy to say to PG, just work out a licensing arrangement with Finale but if Finale has no interest in that, then what? And we as users get to spend our money on our separate toys instead of one very cool "do everything" app.

I print out a bunch of lead sheets too and make corrections by hand just like others have described. It's not worth it to me to buy Finale so I just work with what Biab gives me. Keep posting your suggestions in the Wishlist and maybe get lucky.

Bob

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