Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

[David H. Bailey]

It may be better, but not much better -- I just tried to scan a 
24-staff, finale-printed score and smartscore won't accept it.  Reading 
the documentation for Finale, it states right from the start, don't scan 
anything with more than 16-staves in it.  So anybody who bought the 
program hoping to be able to scan in large scores and edit them and 
modernize them or whatever would definitely have been lied to by the 
marketing hype, supporting my original thesis that scanning into Finale 
represents a marketing lie as bad as any I have read on the Sibelius 
publicity.

I do notice nobody has jumped in to defend Micnotator at all.  :)

David H. Bailey



Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 09.02.2004 13:28 Uhr, David H. Bailey wrote


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.


Actually, not that I totally disagree, however, scanning has improved _a
lot_ in 2k4. You can actually make use of it with rather little extra work,
as long as the source is clean and clear.
Johannes
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