In the Australian Army Band circles Sibelius is, I understand, the primary system- but Finale is available.
Most schools I know of here in Canberra use Sibelius- I am regularly told it is more "user friendly". Anyone who learns at school or in the Army is almost certainly going to stay with that product. If it works, and it's what you know, why change? It would seem that here in OZ at least, Finale have missed the marketing boat! Cheers K in OZ Keith Helgesen. Director of Music, Canberra City Band. Ph: (02) 62910787. Band Mob. 0439-620587 Private Mob 0417-042171 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Broom Sent: Thursday, 14 July 2005 11:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Finale] Is this a Finale or Sibelius list? 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. _________________________________________________________________ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.14/48 - Release Date: 13/07/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.14/48 - Release Date: 13/07/2005 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
