What, specifically, is slowing you down in Finale? My general
impression is that Sibelius is still somewhat easier to learn, but
expert Finale users can work more quickly and more efficiently,
especially if you make full use of third-party plugins.
Back when I was a regular Sibelius user (v1.4), I found Finale MUCH
faster to use -- mostly due to metatools, which were a huge advantage
over Sib's methods for placing things like articulations and fingering
numbers, etc. But that was years ago -- I am only just now starting to
re-learn Sibelius (now up to v5.1) and I'm sure there are likely more
efficient ways of working now than there were back then.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 19 Feb 2008, at 7:23 PM, Adam Golding wrote:
yeah i indeed tried the macro route for awhile--setting things up on
finale
with autohotkey and whatnot--mind you, i could never find an easy
way to
enter smartshapes from the keyboard--i think i would have to learn the
actual plugin language to do that. On the other hand, maybe i'm
just so
addicted to keyboard shortcuts that I can't realize that using the
mouse
*could* be fast too? I have the same issues with removing
articulations.
I had originally decided to switch to finale from sibelius because
of its
greater playback functions (tempo-tap was a BIG deciding factor, no
more
having the computer coax me into abandoning rubato, and same with the
detailed articulation playback options and human playback settings,
and it
records an audio track, and it's easy to control garritan with
articulations), but after about 8 months of finding finale rather
slow to
use, I'm thinking, as i mentioend, of doing all my 'composing' in
cubase and
engraving later. Thus it might make sense to go back to faster
sibelius.
However if there were some way to appraoch sibelius speeds with
finale it
might be worth it to stay in practice with finale, in the hopes that
it will
'one day' actually be the ideal sequencer/notation combination that
none of
these programs is... but from what you tell me, david, that's
probably a
pipe dream.
On 19/02/2008, dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Robert Patterson wrote:
Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say it is a stupid question. But it
is a question that whose answer is very individual.
The only reason I chime in here is to mention that if you are not
making full use of 3rd-party plugins, and also using a 3rd-party
keyboard macro program, you have no idea how fast you can really go
with Finale. I have no idea what the relative benefits of these
products with Sib are, but with Finale they are huge. (But the
learning curve is steep.)
There is no need for a keyboard macro program with Sibelius because
all
of its functions are user-definable as keyboard shortcuts. Why
Finale
hasn't done this is beyond me.
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David H. Bailey
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