Friends... In meeting your notational and MIDI needs, Fin and Sib are NOT your only choices. You all owe Overture a look if you haven't seen it (lately). Many tedious or kludgy processes in Finale are trivial in Overture (beaming across barlines, for ex.). Playback is a breeze and infinitely controllable--ANY dynamic can be INDIVIDUALLY or UNIVERSALLY mapped to volume, velocity,or modulation, with the values esaily definable. Hairpins, too, work this same way! Accel and rit--and any other controller info--are trivial using Overture's "Graphic Window," a mini-sequencer in which you can draw the info without the complexity of executable shapes. Moving ANYTHING on the page, including notes, is trivial I ran some stuff by some people who hire me, and they were indifferent between Overture and Finale output. Furthermore, an Ove user can map almost any music font to use in Overture if (s)he desires a particular look. I started playing with Overture when I got my copy of Garritan Personal Orchestra. I had seen Overture earlier when it was still a Cakewalk product and dismissed it. It is now an independent product, no longer affiliated with Cakewalk, and it has improved markedly. I don't work for them; I just want to tell people that there's another major player in the game besides Fin and Sib. I understand that some houses on the left coast have started doing their scores in Overture 3. I'm not abandoning Finale yet, but every annoyance that comes up, and every nonsense add-on that increases Finale bloat and cost, I gotta wonder. No rhyming dictionary in Overture, no micnotator, no iffy scan-in option, no auto-harmonizer, etc. In their place are solid notation, a useful mid-level sequencer for expressive MIDI playback, seamless integration with GPO and GPO Studio, reliability (no crashes in 7-8 weeks of use with straight-ahead scores), etc. It may not do the Jef Chippewa-type stuff--graphic scores, etc., but I'm not sure how many of us other than Jef do that. ;-). It may--I just don't know. All I know is when I loaded the program, I tried a lot of the stuff that is still a PITA in Finale & it was simple in Ove. So...just a note to tell people that there is indeed another major player in the game, so don't limit your universe to Fin and Sib!! Regards, Jim (Finale since 2.2 on Win 3.1)
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