On 10 Jul 2005 at 9:46, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > Run even new versions of Sibelius and Finale side-by-side. Which one > can you start plunking at and have it put music on the screen? > Sibelius. Even with a template set to come up immediately, Finale > wants you to be too informed first, almost like way back in the line > editor days. Admittedly, Finale has gotten much better about being > immediate, though it still insists (for example) that notes go into > the measure in order, even in Simple entry. No playing around! Get to > work!
I don't quite get this criticism. Using the Sibelius 4 demo and my copy of WinFin2K3, if I launch the new document wizard and use Finale in Simple Entry mode, it works almost precisely the same way as Sibelius. Now, I don't know what Finale's default setup is -- I believe out of the box it defaults to the document setup wizard. I do not know if it defaults to simple entry or not. If it doesn't, then it would be a little harder than Sibelius. But once you're in simple entry, I just don't seen enough differences to make a difference, except for the kindergarten large size of the page layout in Finale (something that has always made no sense to me at all). I just tried setting up a piano quartet, and the Sibelius 4 demo got it exactly right, with 3 staves per page, whereas Finale came up with such huge staves that it can mange only 2 per page. So, yes, to get printout that looks decent in Finale, you've got to know how to adjust page layout, whereas Sibelius is smart enough to get things right on the first try. But in terms of getting music in, I don't see much difference between the two. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
