Thanks David, You just wrote a couple of precious things I was right now asking myself!
-------- Giovanni Andreani www.giovanniandreani.com >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] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
