LIME (was: Finale (was: AMAZING, INCREDIBLE! (Sibelius)))

> From: jpehrson2 <jpehrson@rcn.com>
> To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 12:43 PM
> Subject: [tuning] Re: Finale (was: AMAZING, INCREDIBLE! (Sibelius))
>
>
> --- In tuning@y..., "monz" <joemonz@y...> wrote:
>
> /tuning/topicId_35549.html#35549
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> >
> > but when all is said and done, Finale can still do
> > just about anything. for power users who can nail down
> > and remember all the menu choices, it can't be beat.
> > the tough interface is the problem, and that problem
> > disappears with frequency of use.
> >
>
> ***Thanks, Monz, for the Finale update. Well, certainly I know
> *lots* of composers who use it regularly...
>
> However, it seems Sibelius has conquered the interface problem,
> although it's still not entirely a "piece of cake(walk)."
>
> Also, it appears, since it's a reasonably recent program, they're
> willing to do additional "add-ons" and "plug-ins." Now whether they
> will work the way they are "supposed" to do, is another question...
> but maybe with enough "pestering."
>
> Who knows, maybe they would even go so far as to have
> entire "microtonal symbols" palette with HEWM?? Or an optional
> "plug in" anyway...

back in the early 1990s, Lippold Hakken created "LIME",
the only notation program i know of that from the beginning
was supposed to be able to handle microtonality adequately.

i never owned LIME myself, and haven't heard anything about
it for quite a while. even finding info on it in English
on the web proved difficult ... the only thing i found was
an old Mills tuning list digest with a very negative review
by Brian McLaren and further comments (also mostly negative)
by Paul Rapoport:
http://www.mills.edu/LIFE/CCM/ftp/tuning/list/archive/jun944

-monz

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