At 8:18 AM -0800 7/5/07, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
http://www.soundonsound.com/ has a whole page about Sibelius 5. I
have YET to see them mention Finale 2008.
dhbailey wrote:
There was a short blurb in PCWorld (at least the on-line edition)
about the release of Sibelius 5, which starts off by calling
Sibelius the world's best selling notation software.
I didn't catch this when I read David's original post, but look
carefully at the wording. It does not say the "world's best
software," but the "world's best selling software." Big difference.
Does anyone happen to have the figures to back that up or refute it?
I'm not sure whether MM is making any attempt to be friendly to the
education market, but I do know that when our department was forced
to switch from Finale to Sibelius because MM completely ignored the
needs of Mac OS X customers, that represented a switch of perhaps
40-50 sales per year, every year from now on, plus site licenses for
faculty members, just because of poor planning. And our students are
actually USING Sibelius, rather than swearing at Finale.
As a player, I was sightreading July 4th music yesterday, and found
it much easier to read parts done using Sibelius' default settings
than to read parts done in Finale, and often shrunk too much to fit
the page just because it's so easy to do so. I was actually
surprised to find this true, since I hadn't expected it.
John
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Virginia Tech Department of Music
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240
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http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
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