>I thought I was replying to the list, but apparently I was not. Here's >another copy to the list. Please change the settings back to where they >were! > > >>On 16.04.2002 2:26 Uhr, Dan Carno wrote >> >>> Generally, I prefer to work in Sibelius because it is far more intuitive, >>> and requires less tweaking to make things look good; but Finale's drawing >>> capabilities are terrific. >> >>Well, that is not fair to Finale: It is true that the factory settings in >>Finale leave a lot to be desired, but once you have set up good default >>files Finale doesn't require a lot of tweaking at all. The problem is when >>you want to change the "house style", this is where Finale really has >>weaknesses. >> >>Johannes > >Our music department adopted Mosaic in 1994 and subsequently switched to >Finale in about 1998, because of more favorable pricing for our students, >as far as I know. (They are required by our university to have a minimum >package of communications and applications programs, and our department >further requires majors to have--as of now--Finale.) Our department head >has about had it with Finale and the difficulties our students are >consistently having in making it work. He is seriously considering >adopting Sibelius. > >With great respect to the power users who are so wonderfully helpful in >this forum, what we need and what almost everyone in music needs is a >program that produces professional looking copy right out of the box in an >intuitive manner that anyone can quickly learn. No tweaking. No default >file fiddling around. No needing to add plugins or write them in order to >do things the basic program should be doing for you. I belong to the >overwhelming majority (outside this list, at least) who couldn't write a >plugin to save my life. I am a computer user, not a computer programmer. >I probably use less than 5% of the capabilities in ANY program I run, >because to keep selling upgrades the programmers keep adding to what the >programs will do. I don't need those capabilities. In fact I'm sure I >don't even know about them. The same thing is true of Finale. I will >never need and never use 90% of its fancy bells and whistles, and neither >will our students. Sibelius sounds better and better to me for what the >average musician, not the professional engraver, needs in a program. > >John > > >John & Susie Howell >Virginia Tech Department of Music >Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 >Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 >(mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
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