Speaking as an owner of a Intel iMac Core 2 Duo, Finale 2007 FLIES on
it......and hopefully Intel versions will be forthcoming from Native
Instruments to update GPO and stuff......
Bob Shuster wrote:
I want to thank everyone who offered advice and some great links to
help me decide between switching to Sibelius or updating to Finale
2007 (from Finale 98.) I did take your advice, reading all the
materials I could online and spending some time with each app.
I first spent a full six hours with Sibelius. At first look it does
seem much more polished and easier to use, but after a while it became
clear it was much more consumer and music educator oriented than
professional copyist oriented (not that this is a bad thing - but it
does not fit my application of the product.) I then spent an equal
amount of time with Finale 2007 - and while on the surface it does not
seem much different than the version I was used to, it seemed much
more comfortable and familiar - due in no small part to my years of
use of the product (I go back to at least Finale 2.x - what year would
that have been?!?) I had done *tons* of tweaks to my default Finale
files over the years, and I'm not sure I can make the same tweaks to
Sibelius, or at least not as easily (for me anyway.)
So what it came down to for me was: with which product can I most
quickly get back up to speed and turn out copy that meets or exceeds
my former output. Finale won hands down - my update arrives on
Monday. I'm sure I'll discover a lot of the new "under the hood"
enhancements that have been made - and I will definitely have to start
my tweaking from scratch again. I'm also anxious to see when it will
be completely compatible with the Intel Macs (I have a MacPro machine)
- particularly for my Garritan GPO and JABB libraries - which are
currently unusable.
FYI - cheap plug - I also ordered the most recent Finale 3rd party
book I could find - Finale: An Easy Guide to Music Notation - by Vince
Leonard (an active list member) and Tom Rudolph (a good friend of
mine!) Check it out. :)
- Bob Shuster
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