Hooray! Sparks flying on the Finale list! :)
To be honest, I never fail to be somewhat amused at the fact that complaints
about non-Finale-related thread inevitably result in threads even longer
than the ones complained about.
I too am very much in the "if you don't like it, you don't have to read it"
camp. I personally have been really interested in the New Sibelius/New
Finale chat, as someone who as a minority of one in a community of
Glasgow-based composers around my age all using Sibelius, still uses Finale.
Furthermore, I teach Sibelius in a couple of contexts.
In reference to some of the education chat earlier, as far as the UK goes,
in schools, in universities and in conservatoires, Finale have entirely lost
the battle as far as I can see, and will probably never be able to regain
any significant ground, unless Sibelius make a series of real foul-ups with
their product. Not a single school I am aware of uses Finale, and I can't
think of many universities using it either. I find this fact tragic,
because in so many ways, I strongly feel that for all its annoyances, Finale
is the better application. The university at which I used to work used
Finale because I recommended it for the course I was going to teach, but
since I left 2 years ago, I can only surmise that it has fallen into disuse
(stupid, I know).
In this environment, what real incentive is there to use a minority product?
What sense does it make for a student to begin using a different
application from their peers and often even their supervisors/tutors?
Like everyone here, I don't know what's going to happen with Finale over the
next few years, but I really, really don't want to switch to Sibelius for my
own work. As much as anything else, I hate the thought of those smug
[EMAIL PROTECTED] at Sibelius saying "we told you it was better".
I'd be interested in hearing more about Finale in education elsewhere. I've
always had this (probably largely unfounded) idea that Finale is for the
most part still the prominent product in the States, is this true?
Colin.
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