I thought I was replying to the list, but apparently I was not. Here's another copy to the list. Please change the settings back to where they were!
>On 16.04.2002 2:26 Uhr, Dan Carno wrote > >> Generally, I prefer to work in Sibelius because it is far more intuitive, >> and requires less tweaking to make things look good; but Finale's drawing >> capabilities are terrific. > >Well, that is not fair to Finale: It is true that the factory settings in >Finale leave a lot to be desired, but once you have set up good default >files Finale doesn't require a lot of tweaking at all. The problem is when >you want to change the "house style", this is where Finale really has >weaknesses. > >Johannes Our music department adopted Mosaic in 1994 and subsequently switched to Finale in about 1998, because of more favorable pricing for our students, as far as I know. (They are required by our university to have a minimum package of communications and applications programs, and our department further requires majors to have--as of now--Finale.) Our department head has about had it with Finale and the difficulties our students are consistently having in making it work. He is seriously considering adopting Sibelius. With great respect to the power users who are so wonderfully helpful in this forum, what we need and what almost everyone in music needs is a program that produces professional looking copy right out of the box in an intuitive manner that anyone can quickly learn. No tweaking. No default file fiddling around. No needing to add plugins or write them in order to do things the basic program should be doing for you. I belong to the overwhelming majority (outside this list, at least) who couldn't write a plugin to save my life. I am a computer user, not a computer programmer. I probably use less than 5% of the capabilities in ANY program I run, because to keep selling upgrades the programmers keep adding to what the programs will do. I don't need those capabilities. In fact I'm sure I don't even know about them. The same thing is true of Finale. I will never need and never use 90% of its fancy bells and whistles, and neither will our students. Sibelius sounds better and better to me for what the average musician, not the professional engraver, needs in a program. John John & Susie Howell Virginia Tech Department of Music Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
