At 10:30 PM -0800 10/30/07, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
I, so far, find Sibelius extremely backwards. Like putting articulations on notes after I enter them. Still can't figure that out.
I'll second everything David Bailey said, but add this. Sibelius gives you choices, and one of those choices is to add articulations as you enter notes. It's done with the keypad, and of course depends on how facile you are using the keypad, but I'm gradually training myself to do it that way so I won't have to go back to add them, and my speed is gradually increasing. You can also reprogram the keypad, according to some users, but that's something I probably won't investigate until I'm comfortable with the default arrangement.
Nor if you decide you want to change an instrument on a score.
I assume that you mean same staff, change to a different instrument, perhaps change clef or transposition, rather than the scenario David explained. I know it can be done, but not how because I haven't had to learn it yet.
All notation is complex. (Don't forget that it was originally developed by monks using feathers!!!) But any program has to deal with those complexities. Some do it better than others, but I don't EVER expect any programmer or team of programmers to come up with exactly the same way of approaching things.
So far, I've tried to do two trios with Sibelius, but ended up going back to Finale cause it was just not working very well for me........
Cool. No problem. I used Mosaic long after it stopped being supported because I was comfortable with it. Now it no longer runs on OS X. I'd probably still be using it if I could, but then I'm Mr. Conservative when it comes to jumping into new programs when I have an older one that does what I need it to do.
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