Scanning, for instance -- Yes, it is possible to scan a perfectly printed version of Mary Had a Little Lamb (as melody only) into Finale, using its built-in scanning capability. However for any serious scanning of, say, a complex piano score for arranging as a chamber work, it won't work at all. That seems to be an out and out lie, when they advertised that we could scan in music and work with it in Finale. Coda knows that most users who use Finale are not working on Mary Had a Little Lamb.
MicNotator, for another instance: Play or sing your music into Finale? C'mon! That was another out-and-out lie -- has ANYBODY gotten that to work?
Importing of Midi files? Another lie, if you're working with midi files of any great complexity. Hyperscribe is a partner in this travesty -- playing of complex music does not result in exact notation, rendering the feature useless for most advanced music entry.
There's actually FOUR kinds of lies, to paraphrase Mark Twain (I think he originated it): 1) Lies, 2) Damn Lies, 3) Statistics and
4) Marketing.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying either company is worse in this regard -- I'm just saying that Coda has done its share of misrepresenting its product, too. Sibelius certainly does have a chip-on-the-shoulder attitude in it's aggressive claims! It is a young product still and they are gradually addressing complaints and bugs and deficiencies. Admittedly with an attitude, it seems.
But Sibelius has loosened up its overly rigid licensing so that both Sibelius and Finale are equivalent in that regard for the latest version -- both have call/response software registration and both allow installation on two machines simultaneously without violating the license agreement.
David H. Bailey
Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 08 Feb 2004, at 05:27 AM, William Roberts wrote:[snip]
If some of us on this list seem a little bit bitter about Sibelius, it is because when they burst on the scene, they made extravagant claims about the superiority of their software -- claims that turned out to be completely untrue.
I can see how that might be frustrating, but isn't that just marketing? I don't believe Coda's claims about each new version of Finale any more than I would claims about the new version of Finale.
Well, there's marketing, and then there's marketing. Obviously, both companies engage in their fair share of hype, but to my knowledge Coda have never out-and-out lied about Finale's capabilities, nor have they lied about Sibelius's deficiencies. Sibelius has done both of these things pretty blatantly. In my opinion, they crossed the line from hype to outright dishonesty. I realize that that doesn't have anything to do with the merits of the software itself, but it does color my opinion of the company.
-- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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