Lawrence Yates wrote:
I'm very happy with Finale but I am increasingly being given Sibelius files
to work with and so am seriously considering buying Sibelius as well. This
offer, if, as someone has suggested, applies to older versions of Finale,
sounds very attractive but I don't want to give up my current Finale.
(I currently have the demo version of Sib 6 and, in my inexperience, am
finding it very, very difficult to use. The demo instruction book seems to
offer less help than I would like. As I said, I am very inexperienced so
it's probably my fault)
You don't lose the functionality of any Finale version you
have installed on your computer, and as long as you send an
older version's installation CD you lose absolutely nothing
from your current version, including the ability to
reinstall it if you need to.
When working with Sibelius, as with any new piece of
software, you need to approach it as a new piece of software
with no preconceptions about anything you've learned in
Finale. I didn't follow this advice and found the first
version of Sibelius which I bought to be incredibly
difficult to use. Then with the version 5 upgrade I sat
down as if I'd never used a notation program before, worked
through the tutorials, and found that it became much easier
than before. It's a different program from Finale, it works
in a different way, it forces a different work-flow for you
(just as Finale in its own way forces you to follow a
certain workflow for smoothest efficiency for you) and you
need to approach it as a beginner. It doesn't take long to
get up to speed with it, as you learn the processes for
doing what you need. I'd say it took me about a month of
following the tutorials, practicing on simple projects and
reading the manual before I was up to speed with Sibelius.
Now when I use Sibelius occasionally I find myself in
situations where I mumble "gee, Finale does this so much
easier" and when I use Finale I also find myself in
situations where I mumble "gee, Sibelius does this so much
easier."
--
David H. Bailey
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