On 11/16/2014 1:40 AM, Giovanni Andreani wrote: > Thank you Christopher, I am 2014: I inadvertently wrote 2012 after reading > about the same issue occurred to many 2012 users on the web. > I also have the felling that something local is setting a threshold: I'm no > longer able to permanently authorize finale and have to go over and over with > this annoying process every time it launches. This happened, as I casually > noticed, after repairing permissions via Disk Utility: maybe things like this > trigger these weird behaviours. > While I really don't know what else to do, I'm silently training on Sibelius. >
There is a very helpful Sibelius group at yahoogroups, very much like this group for Finale, filled with Sibelius users of all backgrounds and skill levels, in case you want to learn more. I started with Sibelius way back in version 2.11 when they first offered a competitive cross-grade deal for Finale users but it wasn't until version 5 that I really made the push to learn the program from the ground up instead of constantly complaining about how things were difficult compared to Finale. I stopped trying to make it "Finale-East" and learned it as a brand new program and rapidly found it to be a whole lot easier for the bulk of the composing/arranging/engraving projects that I do. I have kept up with Finale (currently have 2014 installed) mainly in the hopes that with all the changes in ownership of MakeMusic over the past several years that the development team would finally be allowed to clean up Finale and let it become the industry leader it used to be. That hope hasn't died in me yet, but it's flickering. What I've learned over the years that I've used both fluently is that each has its strengths and its weaknesses so I dearly hope that Finale's latest shift to Colorado and the gutting of what used to be MakeMusic won't be the death-knell for the program. Of course with Avid being on equally but different shaky ground, there's no guarantee about the future for either product and with Steinberg's new notation program still a long long way from being brought to market all we can do is to cover our butts by learning both Sibelius and Finale and hoping that both companies survive their current turmoils. -- David H. Bailey [email protected] http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
