It doesn't really seem like fair marketing to make a "Now Finale can scan in music and allows you to edit it, right in Finale" only to have somebody purchase the product and THEN find out customers have to spend another $200 to really get scanning capability that is worth anything.
I've already made that complaint to the support people, though, many versions ago. I just raised it to balance the view that many of Sibelius's claims are lies -- I don't view MakeMusic's marketing as completely honest either. That's all.
David H. Bailey
Fisher, Allen wrote:
You guys need to also remember that the version of SmartScore we ship is SmartScore *LITE*, which we simply licence from the company who makes it. SmartScore Pro will import more than 16 staves at a time. I've had pretty good luck with it like Johannes says: if the source is clean the scanning is good enough to edit. I've dumped parts in through it and turned it into a score.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gebauer, Johannes Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 10:54 AM To: Finale 3 Subject: Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius
On 09.02.2004 16:58 Uhr, David H. Bailey wrote
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.
Now come on! Yes, you are probably right that it doesn't handle more than 16 staves. But that is a limitation, not a quality mark for scanning.
I used it to prepare parts for a Haydn String Trio from a score. The amount of extra work needed was far less than having to reenter everything. That makes it useful for the first time, and I would say this qualifies to be called "much better" - much better indeed!
No it probably won't do as well as advertised. We all know that. But it is useful now (something which I don't think can be said about MicNotator).
Johannes
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