Proficient in both seems to be a good maxim these days. I have too many clients who ask, 'and I suppose you're doing this with Sibelius'. There's no point explaining that there are horses for courses.
On 27/05/2010, at 8:43 PM, dhbailey wrote: > Ray Horton wrote: >> On my side - I keep one eye open for good reasons to start the Sib learning >> curve. So far, I haven't seen them. Could still happen, but not so far. > > I hadn't seen a reason to start the sib learning curve when I initially > purchased the program and installed it and found that it was very alien to > me, being a die-hard Finale user at the time. Then one day I had an "aha!" > moment when I realized that I hadn't given Sibelius a real try, viewing > everything I tried to do in Sibelius through a finale-user filter. That > "aha!" moment came when I told myself to simply sit down with Sibelius as if > it were a brand new program that I had no previous knowledge about, do the > tutorials, read the manual, start with very simple projects and gradually > increase their complexity as I got more comfortable with the program and not > promise any results to anybody until I felt comfortable with the program. > That's the same advice I have given over the years to new Finale users on > this list and on the finale group at yahoogroups, when they would complain > about how complex the learning curve for Finale is. > > And once I started learning Sibelius using that approach I found that it > truly is a better program for lots of things, just as Finale remains the > better program for lots of things. > > And when I find one or the other program seeming to be the better program for > doing something, I try the same thing in the other program to see if it's > just that I misunderstood the necessary procedure. Sometimes that's it, and > sometimes my initial impression of something really being easier in one > program than the other remains unchanged. > > But now I am more versatile as an engraver and have two tools with which to > work when clients request one or the other. Not that I'm buried in engraving > work or anything, but I did just take on a project for $1000 which the client > has requested I work in Sibelius. And given the nature of the project that > would have been the program I would have started it in anyway, so it makes > life so much easier. > > But if all anybody on this list does is their own work, there's no need to > investigate Sibelius as long as you can do what you want in Finale. It's > only when one runs into the possibility of doing work for clients which > originates in either program that one needs to be proficient in both. > > -- > David H. Bailey > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
