Hi, today I gave Sibelius my second try.
I entered and arranged a simple melody (S/A in canon) and T/B accompaniment, to check out copying, pasting, lyrics and so on. Many things work quite differently than in Finale, but I got most things working. I could enter notes, copy and paste things, add lyrics. Sibelius crashed once (something about a C-Library), but for the rest of the time worked quite fine. Playback: I had to restart two times because one of my SATB voices would not play back. Restarting fixed it. I now have entered the music and lyrics. I wanted to shift the lyrics a little lower because they are too near to the staff symstem. I've checked all the menus and fiddled around for half an hour but I could not find a way to adjust the verse 1 baseline. I am quite certain there must be a way to do it, but where? I can adjust one syllable no problem, but the whole lyrics line? I also found out Sibelius dreadfully misses Finale's arrow tool. It's a pain to select notes or measures when drop down menus "hide" it. I found no simple way to enter rests other than break bars into rests and go right with the arrow keys. I might be doing many things wrong, but I wanted to find things out the intuitive way. Some things worked out fine, some things did not. I miss Finale's options to change everything, but hey, I know where to look, after almost twenty years. Wondering if some Sibelius user can solve my lyrics problem. And how can I "select" one voice other than right-clicking the first bar and than the last bar. It's so easy in Finale... Cheers Kurt > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im > Auftrag von Kurt Gnos > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2007 22:37 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: [Finale] Sibelius 5 - First experiences > > Hi, > > after all these discussions and Finale seeming to coming to an end, I > gave > Sibelius 5 a try, at a friend's computer. > > First impression - nice interface, more modern than finale. > > Second impression - less control - for example, when I play back, I > cannot > easily control what Sibelius will show me - it tries to show me what > happens > - but - I can change the resolution, e. g. 75%, during playback, which > is > great. > > What would I do first - I listened to some demo songs - The sound great > with > the new samples Siblius comes with, and Sibelius certainly does a nice > playback. > BUT, and this is a big but (no pun intended) - during the first hour > Sibelius crashed three times just playing demo songs and videos. Finale > hasn't crashed on me for years. > > I started entering a new piece of music, but I will keep you informed > when > I've tried a bit more. So there are ups and downs, but if the crashing > goes > on I'm sure to stay with Finale, even if it seems a bit out-of- > fashion... > > Kurt > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
