Re: [Finale] Finale in the Education Market (Was Dynamic Parts)

[Lon Price]

On Jul 10, 2005, at 2:48 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: 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. Here's one very simplistic example:  Say you have a piano part that's basically "two-beat"--that is, LH on 1 and 3, and RH on 2 and 4.  You enter the LH notes first: note-rest-note-rest.  Now the RH:  In Finale, if you want notes on beats two and four, you have to enter rest-note-rest-note.  In Sibelius you can just point the cursor to beat 2 and enter a note, then do the same for beat 4--no need to enter rests on beats 1 and 3--they are added automatically.  In other words, Sibelius allows mid-measure note entry (in an empty measure), while Finale doesn't. ******************************************** Lon Price, Los Angeles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://hometown.aol.com/txstnr/>

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