Finale 25 (for Mac) brought a rewrite of the Print Dialog that included a number of annoying regressions. It is still quite deficient now over a year on. 1. There is no way to suppress appending "-...
While I generally prefer the "Keyless" and "Hide Key Signature and Show All Accidentals" options to Chromatic Transposition, the new way has a major flaw. The Enharmonic Spelling options stubbornly...
I understand why Makemusic created the Score Manager. And perhaps it makes life easier for novice users. But for experienced users it is (still) a major regression after five years and counting. It...
Currently Finale has a limitation that it can 1) either use Garritan for playback or 2) use MIDI. (There's also a third option Smartsynth I believe, but personally I don't care about it.) It is unc...
The Match Playback to Metronome Marking Text option in the Playback panel of the Expression Designer is great. Or it would be if it didn't have such a fatal limitation. I would like to use it for b...
One of the most damaging decisions ever taken by Makemusic was the removal of note-attached expressions in Fin09. I miss them almost daily. It was also patently unnecessary, since note assignment c...
One of the most inexplicable decisions of Finale's past occurred with the introduction of "engraver" tuplets in (as I recall) Finale 2005. Unlike every other tool revamp before or since the team el...
MacOS has a setting in System Preferences->Dock for the action to take on double-clicking in a window's title bar. The Cocoa UI Finale versions (2014+) ignore this setting and do nothing when you d...
The lyrics baselines feature is pretty good, but it is missing a feature that causes a great deal of wasted time. It would be nice if there were a way to move all the lyrics (i.e., all verses, chor...
If you run with Display Measure Numbers checked in Finale prefs, there are various functions that fail to take into account measures with "Include in Measure Numbering" unchecked. The two I am thin...