Klarinet Archive - Posting 000546.txt from 2005/03

From: karlkrelove@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] music notation software (rather OT)
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:13:59 -0500

I won't recommend Finale or Sibelius as the superior product. I think it's true that Sibelius may have been the best thing that ever happened to Finale. Most of the clunkiness or earlier versions has been cleaned up, in my opinion, over the past couple of years, and it's because Sibelius's more intuitive interface forced MakeMusic (the current name of what was CodaMusic) to make Finale more user-friendly. I think the choice boils down to personal preference or maybe more important for a novice user, which program is more popular among friends who can help get you started. I don't think anyone should judge Finale based on any verion earlier than, maybe, 2004.

> If you want serious music notation software, I recommend Sibelius.
> It's professional grade stuff. It's easy to use, and can do absolutely
> anything musically that you want to do. Modern music, renaissance
> music, you name it. I used to use an old version of Cakewalk, and got
> frustrated because I couldn't do any tuple other than a triplet.
> Sibelius will let me do any tuplet I want, even tuplets within
> tuplets, which is weird, I admit, but it just shows you how powerful
> and flexible it is. It's not cheap though. The software runs around
> $700 last time I checked.
>
> Finale is also very popular, but the last time I used Finale
> (Admittedly several years ago, and probably multiple versions back),
> it was exceedingly difficult to use, and had a very clunky interface.
>
> Finale strikes me more as music publishing software, in that you can
> do all these nice little things to make the sheet music pretty. So,
> it's sort of like Frontpage, or Quark, but for sheet music. Sibelius
> is for serious composers, I think, and is just way better, in my
> opinion.
>
> There are a number of ways to get a discounted version of Sibelius -
> for example if you're involved in the music department of a church,
> belong to one of several musical organizations, or are involved in
> teaching, or are a student, for example.
>
>
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:38:24 +0100, rien stein <rstein@-----.nl> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > For my music notation I am using "Personal Composer", a program with many
> > good properties (the best of which was that it was a cheap program), but
> > with also a few shortcomings. I am trying to investigate now a few more
> > programs. I tried Score Perfect Professional -- a complete waste of money.
> >
> > On a forum like this one I think there are many people with experiences with
> > software like Sibelius, Igor, Finale, possibly also with SPP and other
> > programs? The demo versions of these programs are unsatisfying (if they do
> > work!), probably due to my lack of experience. That is why I would like to
> > know the opinion of more experienced users. Because this subject is so far
> > OT if you answer my question please do so in private mail. I am anxious to
> > learn about all asapects of score preparation, lay-outing, print control,
> > inserting all kind of symbols from dynamics to fermatas to processing
> > multiplets (quintuplets, triplets) etc.TIA
> >
> > Rien
> >
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