I wouldn't go so far as saying Sibelius's deficiencies are "no big
deal" -- to name just one issue, the inability to get consistent
positioning for straight gliss lines (they cannot be reliably copied,
and manually adjusting them is an incredible pain -- and it's just a
LINE, fercrissakes, this should not be so bloody hard) makes it
incredibly difficult for me to get output that is up to my usual
standards -- and my "usual standards" are far more modest than, say,
Jef's or Johannes's.
Siblelius's slurs also remain dramatically inferior to Finale's -- and
that's even taking into consideration the longstanding Engraver Slurs
bugs.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 11 Mar 2008, at 2:02 PM, ThomaStudios wrote:
Darcy,
This pretty much parallels my experience with Sibelius 5. I started
using it last October for simple student-related projects, and then
in January for my first professional job. And most of that initial
time was saying things like 'wow, that's really easy'; 'how simple
it that' etc. I also spent a LOT of time poring over the manual,
but once I figured something out, it obviously went much faster.
I'm at the point now where I'm only using Finale for projects that
start with it. All new projects are in Sibelius.
On one rather large project, a Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, I
couldn't believe how much easier page layout was. I estimated it
took my 1/4 of the time it would have in Finale. Another project
was for a client doing various music examples for an educational
presentation, and that REALLY made me get into the bowels of the
program and scope out a lot of things. It does have some
shortcomings, but not anything that's unworkable. And at least I
have faith that the developers are actually listening to me when I
make a suggestion or point out a deficiency.
There are a lot of things Sibelius does differently, but once you
get use to them, I find it's no big deal.
J D Thomas
ThomaStudios
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