I have no idea what Sibelius's customer service is like now, but this merger probably dooms it. Digidesign is notorious for hating its customers. It requires unrealistically narrow configurations, fails to support core technologies (like Quicktime) except on their (limited) terms, uses a proprietary hardware/software interface, and has draconian copy protection schemes that require the user to produce multi-dozen-digit serial numbers every time they upgrade. (Which is often, since this is often the only way it will run on your computer.)
For example, to be officially compliant with the ProTools support policy, you have to turn off Software Upgrade and never upgrade your OS. Hardly safe or user friendly, eh? Mind you, this for ProTools, which is a giveaway with their hardware and won't run on anyone else's hardware. Imagine what the CP might be like for software that is not tied to their hardware. It is nevertheless an interesting development, because I suspect you will begin to see ProTools and Sibelius merge. Some 5 years ago when Finale began to go towards being everything, I recommended then that a better course would have been for them to get in bed with a DAW package. (I recommended Performer.) It looks like, once again, Sibelius is showing all the leadership. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
