dhbailey wrote:
Sibelius does produce a great looking page with default settings.
Comparing it to someone's altered Finale page, however, isn't really a
fair comparison, because someone could just as easily have done the
same in Sibelius. That they didn't feel they needed to says more than
the actual comparison between the two different outputs.
This is where Finale needs to work harder -- the program should be
able to be installed, a file begun and worked on to conclusion and
printed out with no adjustment to the defaults and it should look as
elegant as a Sibelius file worked on the same way. And there's reason
that Finale can't do it, other than the fact that nobody at MakeMusic
has sat down and designed a maestro-default.ftm file which emulates in
every detail what Sibelius' default file does.
There's no way that a work created in Finale using the default
template and with no percentage reduction either on staves or systems
or whole pages looks anything other than amateurish. They need to
address that.
Yeah, it is pretty silly. One of the schools near where I teach, the
instructor is all gung-ho over SmartMusic. They even flew in someone to
demo it in Feb. Yet, when I made a SmartMusic file for Giant Steps
(complete with BinaB backgrounds), they seemed to think it was some sort
of voodoo magic. They don't seem to know SmartMusic and Finale are made
by the same company...........
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