Rocky Road schrieb:
My school here in Sydney, Australia uses Finale, but this is because I
like it and I introduced it here when we brought computers into the
music department some years back (being head of music has its
privileges :-) ). However, all around us, it seems to be all Sibelius.
Most Music Technology and Music Education stores sell both, but only
seem to push SIbelius. The nearest Music Education store regularly
promotes Sibelius in their literature and technology training days (and
the other Sibelius - linked products like Auralia). They are quite happy
to sell you Finale products, but you usually have to ask specifically.
[snip]
Exactly my impression, too. All this talk about how big Finale still is
in the education market seems to have no basis as far as I can see.
Sibelius is taking over very quickly, and very aggressively. And it
manages to do so despite, or more likely because of its interest in
engraving over sequencing.
If you look around you will notice that Sibelius is very prominent in
the publishing business, too. I am pretty sure that in Europe these days
more publications were done in Sibelius than in Finale. This backfires
into the education market, imo. And that's why Finale has to improve
their name in the engraving market, too. And it will only manage to do
so if people feel that its the best tool for engraving, rather than a
pretty good alround package that can do engraving, too.
Johannes
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