Seems to me that a rat leaving a sinking ship is an intelligent rat.
Dean
On Oct 15, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Ray Horton wrote:
Re Speedy vs. Simple and Sibelius:
When I started usin Finale (FinWin 97), I had a new computer with a
temporary midi conflict from two sound cards. As a result, I
couldn't use Speedy for a while and had to use Simple for a few
weeks. That did give a benefit of becoming proficient with all the
copying and transposing functions, because entering new notes was
such a pain, but as soon as I got the sound card conflict resolved,
I immediately switched to Speedy and have never left the Simple
palette on my screen since. (I know 'it's improved now' but I
don't care - speedy works well).
One question about improved Simple- can you now enter chords in
Simple entry?
Also - I'm one of the people over on the Sibelius list, very
recently. I asked about Garritan compatibilty, because I still
might bite at the $80 Sibelius price. (I am told all the full
Garritan products are fully compatible.) But I won't switch
permanently unless I see real benefit.
So far on the list the welcome to us on that list has been less
than tremendous: 'Switch to Sibelius - simple entry is far
better because it's the only one we have' (On this I agree 100%
with David Fenton.) And we have been called "rats leaving a
sinking ship."
Raymond Horton
dhbailey wrote:
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 14 Oct 2007 at 16:28, Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 03:42 PM 10/14/2007, David W. Fenton wrote:
>The point is that Sibelius is not as versatile as Finale in
terms of
>providing options for music entry. Bad-mouthing Finale doesn't
change
>the fact that Sibelius is more limiting, and enforces a single
way of
>working, whereas Finale offers choice.
This is also true. Although it's only relevant for those of us
who love Speedy.
But that's a huge majority of the long-term users, no? It's
really a huge stumbling block for me -- when I need to use
Finale, I mostly need to do it quickly, so I just don't have the
time to learn a new entry method that seems to me to be much less
efficient.
I used to think that it was a huge majority of the long-term
users, but from various posts over the years I have been surprised
at how many of people I would have assumed used Speedy were
actually using Simple Entry. And quite a few jumped from Speedy
to the newly revamped Simple Entry tool a few versions ago.
I don't think MakeMusic would dissolve the Speedy Entry tool were
it the preferred tool of choice for a huge majority of its users,
probably taking its lead from corporate users who purchase large
numbers of site licenses, who may not be using Speedy Entry at all.
And I can well understand the time constraints concerning learning
a new tool. So it seems that moving to Sibelius isn't really an
option for you (and quite possibly for many others.) I'm not
abandoning Finale, but I am finding working in Sibelius to be much
easier than I had formerly thought it was, and the conversion to
Sibelius' entry methods happened practically overnight for me, so
it might not be as difficult a transition as you think it will be.
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