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City: -77.4728 Virginia, United States

When MakeMusic's Finale software comes to mind, I get that fetid feeling in my stomach that is likened to the caste of thoughts including the Internal Revenue Service, Comcast's Customer Support, and distant family reunions. The most charitable adjective I can, in good conscience, use to describe Finale is "necessary". And, at its best, that's what Finale is. Composing and arranging music is intended to be arrestingly thrilling - a joyous activity. Finale does to that past time what your dog desires to do in your flower bed once every afternoon. Every new update consciouslessly desecrates music by disgracing our professional field with its unrelenting ability to retain every bug, glitch, and shortcoming as the preceding edition. All while being offensively overpriced and guilefully obsolete with your next OS update. Only Finale compensates your four to six hundred dollars with same technical blunders you experienced half a decade prior. Astonishing is it that, forty five years after computers more primitive than most graphing calculators exactingly landed man on the moon, we cannot design a program that notates music. This software is a stain on my hard drive. A blemish on my desktop. And yet, there seems to be no superior product. To recommend that we, as professionals, stop using Finale would be to undermine the music trade itself by removing the staple Finale has become. We've arrived at an impasse until a better option comes along. Until then, I'll continue to use Finale. But I'll do so with the same demeanor with which I continue to pay the IRS, remain on hold with Comcast, and eat my butternut squash casserole at the next family reunion.

Very good over all design. My issue was the mesh opening is too large for the ground squirrels that we have. I had to wrap the entire thing with hardware cloth (HD screen) to keep the things from escaping. That cost another $20 and 2 hours of work. My reward for the extra work is 7 squirrels so far this morning.

An awesome iPad case. I've had many over the years, and this is by far the best in quality and usefulness--I love the pencil holder as it makes it hard, even for the distracted, to lose the pencil.