The Tantacrul Youtube channel recently published a good critique video of MuseScore. The channel has already published one on Sibelius and is promising one for Dorico and Finale as well. In the Fin/Sib wars, the author is definitely a Sib partisan, though he hates the design layout of Sib. Therefore I fully expect his Finale video will be a complete pan (with much of it doubtless justified).
I have never disputed that Finale's usuability is pretty terrible, *unless you integrate 3rd party plugins* into your workflow. A great example comes at this point in the MuseScore <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hZxo96x48A&t=1653s> video. The author correctly notes how much slower MuseScore is than Sibelius. And honestly, they both seem like they may beat out native Finale. However, they both are repetitive solutions that grow in a linear relation with the number of staves and number of measures. By contrast, if you incorporate my Mass Copy plugin into this task, you only make the change once and then copy to as many staves and measures as you select with a single click. The length of time required is no longer related to the number of staves/bars and is *much* faster than either technique in the video. This post is not intended to be an advertisement. Finale has many indispensable 3rd party plugins I didn't write, including free ones. I am mainly posting this here because I thought the group might be interested in Tantacrul's quite entertaining videos. And I also wanted to note how Finale's powerful 3rd party plugin interface keeps it competitive in the face of mounting serious challengers. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
