dhbailey
dhbailey at
davidbaileymusicstudio.com
wrote:
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>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.
I have a not dissimilar relationship with both applications. Almost all of the
typesetting I do is done in Sibelius, because it is usually requested.
Additionally, the music conservatoire at which I teach uses Sibelius on all its
machines. Statistically, I probably open up Sibelius more frequently than I do
Finale in any given week (excepting one where I'm trying to finish a piece),
but I still consider myself primarily a Finale user, because I do my own
composition work in it. However I could count on one hand the number of my
peers using Finale.
There's a lot I like about Sibelius - like any problem it has its share of
frustrations (the engraving rules/page layout options drive me mad), but it's a
slick well-working program. But for my taste there's just a little too much
automation at times. I guess I don't always like a program assuming something
(I still get a flash of hatred when I think of the Microsoft Paperclip)
Getting "under the hood" and tweaking things to exactly how you want them has
always seemed more complicated in Sibelius, especially with regards to midi.
Admittedly Finale is *very* far from perfect in this regard, but it's easier to
get in and start changing things.
So currently I'm not waiting for a reason to make the switch to Sibelius, and
as a result it seems unlikely that one will come. As easy as Sibelius is to
use and as much as I like it, I just far prefer Finale for creative work. It's
sort of hard to explain, but a newly created empty score/file in Finale feels
to me more like a "blank canvas" than does one in Sibelius. (Though I freely
admit that's probably completely subjective).
Colin Broom.
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