On 09.06.2003 13:53 Uhr, David H. Bailey wrote
To be fair, there is an independent Sibelius yahoogroup which is very similar to this Finale community.
I am curious: do they also have a list of XX reasons not to buy Finale, and do they point out the shortcomings of Finale from time to time? What are they, from a Sibelius user's point of view?
(This is in no way meant to be provocative, I simply like to know the other perspective as well. I have only tried Sibelius once a long time ago, so I have no opinion about it.)
I can relate some of the reasons the Sibelius rep pointed out. Mainly, it seems to be easier to use "out of the box".
Everything can be clicked upon and dragged immediately.
He made a big deal comparing the formatting in Sibelius to Finale, but I didn't see anything inherently better or easier about it, frankly.
He also made a comparison for part extraction, which WAS very zippy (seconds!), but that seems to be because there are a lot of things that aren't recalculated as they are in Finale. Frankly, the minute or two it takes Finale to extract even a large score on my year-and-a-half-old computer I don't begrudge it.
They have an Arrange feature (where a piano part can be turned into an orchestra score in one shot), but I'm not sure I would trust it. I'm too fussy about those things.
If you are interested, I can go back to my notes.
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