Round about here some Finale users have changed to Sibelius, usually with
relief. I remember when Finale was the only serious choice, and ploughing
through the massive manuals to find out how to put in a grace note was a
trek of Himalayan proportions. But it was the only way to get results of
that quality.
I understand that the programme has become a little more like its major
competitors as time has passed, but retains that annoying edit window. With
the deimse of the fast, user-friendly, but slightly buggy (probably a Win
95 problem really) Encore, Finale now has to contend with Sibelius, at
around the same price. No contest, in my view, even although some of the
Sibelius features seem willfully pervesely unlike their standard windows
equivalent, for instance cut and paste.
If I were starting out, I would have to plump for Sibelius though, since
it is so fast and elegant, and seems to require less adjustments to produce
a finished score. john
At 11:56 AM 4/18/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi:
>Finale is certainly one of the best music writing
>programs around but it is very costly. If you can
>get it from someone who teaches in a school system
>it tends to be cheaper.
>The manual has 7 or 8 tutorials but is quite easy to
>follow...there's just lots of stuff to learn. It's not something
>you can just pop into your computer and write out the
>scores. So far, I find that I can still write them out faster
>by hand cuz I don't spend enough time on Finale on a
>regular basis to remember all the little details and have
>to keep going back to check things in the manual.
>My summer project is to get really good at Finale.
>One point though: You can enter music manually with
>your point and click method or you can hook up to
>a midi keyboard and play the music which is actually
>faster.
>Good luck,
>Hope this helps
>Jacqueline
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>www.suite101.com
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