On 4/20/2018 11:33 AM, Lynn David Newton wrote: > Forgive me for elbowing in on this discussion. I'll ask my question > up front: > > I notice (checking sweetwater.com) that there is a "trade-up" path, > a way to acquire Dorico for considerably less than the standard > price if I am a user of a competing product. > > Does that mean I have to somehow *give up* on using the competing > product? Which doesn't make sense. Or only present proof of > being a user of that product? What's the catch, because the price > difference is significant. > [snip]
When we purchase a cross-grade for a piece of software, proving that we are legitimate owners of the competing product the requirement. We are not forced into stopping using the competing requirement. For example, I used Finale for quite a few years before buying a cross-grade, vastly reduced price, version of Sibelius. I have been upgrading each practically every upgrade since then, and both programs have worked side by side. Then I took advantage of the introductory cross-grade offer of Dorico and now all three of those products work side by side by side on my computer. So you can invest in the competition if you wish. However, if you are satisfied with Finale and it is able to fulfill all your music engraving needs, then there's no need to start all over again with a different product. Competing products such as Sibelius and Dorico are for people who aren't happy with some major aspect of Finale (or other current notation software) and who find that the new product will do something better, easier, faster, smoother, more elegantly, or just plain do something which the current notation software being used can't do. One limitation of Dorico -- mixed meters. In Finale, it's possible to do mixed meters but the bar-lines stay in the same place so that having 2/4 and 3/4 at the same time the quarter notes in the 3/4 measure move faster than the quarter notes in the 2/4 measure. How Finale currently does it is one desired outcome. However, many Finale users have long wanted the ability to have the different meters but have the quarter notes move at the same speed, so the barlines are different on the two staves. Not possible without huge workarounds, none of which are easy or satisfactory. Dorico does it the way many Finale users want it -- if the music has 2/4 in one staff and 3/4 in a different staff, the barlines are independent as well and all the quarter notes move at the same pace. However, Dorico does not allow the user to have it the way Finale does it currently. Ideally, both notation products would allow the user to have it either way, user-selectable on a case-by-case basis. Sibelius is worse at it than Finale but the underlying concept is the same -- all measures take up the same amount of time from downbeat to downbeat, so more beats in one staff equates to faster beats than the staff with fewer beats. So Dorico has a ways to go to truly supplant either Finale or Sibelius. -- ***** 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]
