Nobody has claimed that Sibelius does anything better than Finale.
And they don't come up with a list of reasons not to buy finale, because by and large there don't seem to be many people who are primarily computer-engravers, but more composers who aren't interested in the minutiae of page layout and item alignment the way we on the Finale list are.
They are more basic "how do I do this" sorts of questions. Sometimes the answer is "look at page x in the manual" sometimes the answer is "this is how you do it" and sometimes the answer is "you can't do that in Sibelius."
On the Finale list we often see the first two, but it has been ages since I recall reading a "you can't do that in Finale" response.
Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
At 6:28 PM +0200 6/09/03, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 09.06.2003 13:53 Uhr, David H. Bailey wrote
To be fair, there is an independent Sibelius yahoogroup which is very similar to this Finale community.
I am curious: do they also have a list of XX reasons not to buy Finale, and
do they point out the shortcomings of Finale from time to time? What are
they, from a Sibelius user's point of view?
(This is in no way meant to be provocative, I simply like to know the other
perspective as well. I have only tried Sibelius once a long time ago, so I
have no opinion about it.)
I can relate some of the reasons the Sibelius rep pointed out. Mainly, it seems to be easier to use "out of the box".
Everything can be clicked upon and dragged immediately.
He made a big deal comparing the formatting in Sibelius to Finale, but I didn't see anything inherently better or easier about it, frankly.
He also made a comparison for part extraction, which WAS very zippy (seconds!), but that seems to be because there are a lot of things that aren't recalculated as they are in Finale. Frankly, the minute or two it takes Finale to extract even a large score on my year-and-a-half-old computer I don't begrudge it.
They have an Arrange feature (where a piano part can be turned into an orchestra score in one shot), but I'm not sure I would trust it. I'm too fussy about those things.
If you are interested, I can go back to my notes.
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