Klarinet Archive - Posting 000302.txt from 2001/01

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music Programs for PC??
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:34:28 -0500

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From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subject: RE: [kl] Music Programs for PC??

>... Our choice at that
> time was Encore, and I used and liked this program very much.
> Unfortunately, the company which developed it sold it to someone else, who
> stopped supporting and upgrading it, so it seems pretty much to have gone
> the way of the dinasaurs. We changed a couple of years ago to Sibelius,
> although we have both that one and Finale on our computers. The
> commonly-held wisdom about these programs is that Finale is usually the
> standard of the music publishing industry, but it has a very steep
learning
> curve. It may take several months of fairly regular usage to begin to
beel
> that you have a pretty good command of its features. On the other hand,
> Sibelius seems to share with Encore the feature of being very intuitive.
> You can learn it fairly easily and quickly, even without the manual if
> necessary. I find it encouraging that you feel that it is in some ways
> superior to Finale.
>
> We feel that Sibelius is the way for us to go right now, but when I use
it,
> I still long for the days of Encore!

I visit the GVOX site, who now owns the Encore product line, regularly.
Finally there are once again glimmers that they are putting effort into
Encore. It is now possible to once again purchase MusicTime Delux, Encore,
and Music Tracks Pro.

Dee Hays

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