Greetings
all,
mailing list newbie
here. Glad to have found this.
The latest
version of Finale I am familiar with is 2002, having refused to upgrade beyond
that until they fixed some of the basic notational problems in Finale that
always seemed to get overlooked -- the eternal problems with tuplet placement,
hairpins, disappearing measures, etc -- in favor of "composer's assistant"
nonsense. As someone who looks at these programs largely as notational tools, I
got frustrated. In any case, I stuck it out with 2002 until recently,
when I was finally convinced by friends to try Sibelius.
I've been working with version 3.1.3 for about 2 months.
Certainly
things are superior in Sibelius when it comes to the user interface and certain
formatting issues (at least in comparison to Finale 2002). But at the end of the
day I am most concerned about what comes out of my printer, and Sibelius doesn't
even begin to approach the professional look that I can get (after much
hair-pulling) out of Finale. And I am frustrated again, because the response in
the Sibelius forums is constantly "no, you can't do that
(yet)."
Anyway: I'm
wondering if I can get some feedback on where things stand with Finale 2005 as
regards the many problems I am familiar with in F2002, and I'm wondering what
the NEW frustrations might be with 2005 (again, as regards notation -- I do not
use these programs' composing tools or sound-file generating
tools.) At this point I'd considering upgrading if I thought that 2005 was
honestly better than 2002.
If there is
somewhere on the internet where someone has actually documented these things,
that would certainly suffice. I don't want to take up too much bandwidth here!
;-)
Thanks,
Jeffery
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