Matthew, this is a pretty good list. I wish I knew a bit more
(learning) about some of the features in Finale that you mention as I
think some things are there in different form. A few comments.
At 06:48 AM 7/9/2005, you wrote:
My quick 2c:
- No scroll view in Sibelius. Having the last bars on the page jump
around I find intensely irritating. Also as one of the Davids here said,
it makes it more difficult to select different things.
The jumping around thing, which i agree is a kludge, has
workarounds. Basically i just set the page justification to off, or a very
high value, when working on anything with touchy formatting. I'm not sure
yet how useful I'd find scroll view because when entering music I'm almost
always thinking about page layout - how the final product will look.
- Very few metatools for things like time signatures, which are a big
time-saver in Finale. Mind you if you're dealing mostly with baroque
music you may not need such things... Also the option-click to copy
function in Sibelius is great.
- The time signature function in Sibelius is actually pretty clunky from
what I can see if you need them to change a lot.
One of my most-often requested changes. It IS clunky, and I use changing
sigs frequently. A user-definable list of "other" time sigs would seem to
me to solve the problem.
- No Sibelius Notepad.
- No Speedy Entry in Sibelius.
Not sure I understand this. Sib's whole basis seems to me to be basically
similar to Speedy Entry, using a MIDI keyboard and the keypad. And I
certainly find it speedy! I realize there are differences, but not huge.
- You can't undo plugins (this is truly bizarre IMHO - what application
doesn't have an Undo for some of its functions?).
No and I don't know enough about how plug-ins alter the file structure to
have an inkling of why this is so. Some, quite a few, of them create the
operation in a new file. But it's easy enough to work around with file
versions, save as, and "Save changes?" responses.
- No TGTools Staff List Manager or TGTools Cue Notes function in Sibelius.
- No graphic expression editor in Sibelius like in Finale.
- You might not have time to learn another application to the standard to
which you currently know Finale.
Right. I'm experiencing the reverse. But it's my summer project - to get
a little further that is.
- There is no rhyming dictionary in Sibelius ;-) (Funnily enough I
needed to use this the other day).
I think that it would still depend on your notational needs though. I
wonder if you could make something as beautiful as your quasi-Henle scores
using Sibelius? That would be the real test?
I know quite a few major publishers are using Sibelius, as they also do
Finale and Score. It would be interesting to have a list of what editions
were done with which.
Ken
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