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> MuseScore 5 is also two years late.
Oh, it’s contageous…
I suppose composers–the kind that would use notation software–as a breed do not have tons of money to spend on software, enough to sustain corporate investment, unlike, say, graphic designers. I suspect we are also not as excited by “innovations” or complex new features or AI assistance, and those who are are more likely to be into DAWs and sequencers. Most of us just want some of these things to just run as they are on newer computers.
Here I am, still happily plugging away with MusicTime on a 2015 computer… I can wrestle some decent stuff out it.
Am I allowed to self-promote? https://soundcloud.com/user-27596648/where-have-all-the-earthworms-gone
Since when did the home page say “Coming This Summer”? Didn’t it used to say “Coming This Fall” or something like that?
I’ve tried MuseScore… drove me nuts right away, not suited to my process… 🙁
> I think it’s better to know the truth than to prolong the agony.
I think prolonged agony is the truth. 🙂 I’m surprised/pleased that Don is working on it at all…
I believe the version we need to use is Mojave 10.14.6. It is the last MacOS that runs 32-bit apps.
10.14.6 only runs on Intel Macs; looks like 2019 is the last model year we’d want for iMacs (2020 Intel iMacs came with 10.15), and 2018 for Minis. If you are buying a computer and want to make sure it will run 10.14.6, look it up on everymac.com, and see “Pre-Installed MacOS” (i.e., minimum MacOS) and “Maximum MacOS”; you want 10.14.6 to fall in between those versions.
I find that Minis tend to be a good deal in the used market, and easily replaced should something go wrong or when it’s time to upgrade, either because Encore 6 finally came out or because you give up; I have other reasons to stay on 10.14.6, like Adobe CS5. 🙂
I have several computers that are kept on 10.14.6 so that I can keep running 32-bit apps, and do most of my music-writing, sound editing, word processing, web-surfing, Zooming, photo editing, art, and graphic designs on them. Typing this message on one now! 🙂 The newer computers are used for… let’s see… tax preparation and panorama stitching, SPICE, and first drafts of things in Pages/Numbers… and when I get sick of checking feeds on a phone.
