Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-08-26 06:05
rmk54 wrote:
> Maybe what one person refers to as tricks are another person's
> advanced techniques. Would you refer to an alternate fingering
> as a trick?
It's been awhile, but I remember having trouble positioning expression marks, changing staff spacing, moving measures from one system to another, changing note spacing, setting system margins - all things I was able to do quickly in Finale with drop-down menus or draggable handles, if I didn't like the default choices Sibelius made for me. It may well have been lack of experience with Sibelius - I've already said I gave in and ran back to Finale quickly because I had things I had to get done, usually on deadline, and the techniques had become second nature for me in Finale. My complaint at the time certainly wasn't that Sibelius wasn't competent, powerful notation software, but rather that the sales hype emphasized its greater ease of use and more intuitive user interface compared **directly* with Finale (which had its own learning curve that I had already climbed). However powerful its features were at the time, they were not so obvious to an inexperienced user, and the UI bore no resemblance I could see to WYSIWYG word processors like MS Word.
But you were right in your first post - this isn't really the place for a discussion about Sibelius vs anything else. I was just reacting to Ken's comment. I probably shouldn't have.
Karl
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