Anybody who can do ANYTHING with percussion parts with ANY of these products has my boundless admiration. I find all the products unbelievably tedious when it comes to percussion parts. There must be a better way.
Regarding Dorico being ready for professional use, I agree with David that it depends on how you define "professional". I am convinced that I could produce a publication-quality big band chart with it given where the program is today. And if I knew Dorico as well as I know Finale, I think I would save about 20% of the time on such a project, mostly because of less fiddling with layouts. If I were doing a orchestra score with 4-part choir, vocal soloist, Theremin, piano and harpsichord, I have no idea which product would be faster to use. And one thing I have not tried to do yet, is get my 3-page transcription down to 2-pages while keeping the music font reasonably large. This is where I get into a world of hurt with Finale. If you are willing to let Finale print with its default spacing, sometimes the layout isn't too laborious. But in most cases, I want big band parts to be 2 pages on an 8-1/2x11 sheet (and if using more than 2 pages, I must lay out very easy page turns.) That quickly becomes a dreadful experience with Finale. Tomorrow evening I will have some time to go through that process with my Dorico demonstration project. That will show very clearly whether or not Dorico has made a major advance in layout. On 4/21/2018 10:21 AM, Ryszard Pusz wrote: > I have followed this thread with interest. I continue to use Finale because I > am too lazy to learn any other, but I use it quite detachedly. As a > percussionist I would like to be able to notate a much greater range of > nuances than the program allows, and then to have the sounds played back. > > I don't know why the untuned percussion sounds are locked into such a rigid > system. Surely it would be possible to have each untuned instrument notated > anywhere on the staff, say in a "two-octave" range and have those sounds tied > to the neutral clef. Secondly, the strokes used to play them could also be > more flexibly notated and played back > > But probably NIML (not in my lifetime)… > > Ryszard > > > On 21/04/2018, at 11:32 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: > >> And ultimately it all boils down to each of us finding and using the >> tools which allow us to get the desired result with the minimum of >> effort for us so that most of our effort can be put into the creative >> side of things. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
