It's another marketing ploy to show how "superior" they are to Finale that works just as we all know it would work in Finale. Personally, I am glad we can't do that because it would cause code-bloat for no really good purpose (how would those engraver slurs look if they were converted to Finale 2000 file format?)
I would rather see the development team work harder to get things right in the current version, such as PDF printing for the poor MacOSX users who had to wait so long for a workable Finale.
And then to work further on the MIDI tool, to allow us to actually EDIT musically meaningful things in the Human Playback dialog, so we can determine if trills start on the upper note, how fast they are, whether they end with a bit of sustained original note.
Far more important to get things working right in the current version. When they finally have gotten their data to a point where anything we want to do notationally (well, I can wait forever for the ability to create spiral scores a la Crumb) is possible. Then the data format will be mature and they can begin making version compatibility possible.
The Sib3 saving as Sib2 is most definitely NOT a reason to switch!
Join the Sibelius group at yahoogroup and read all the "it used to work this way on the Acorn version, why doesn't it work in version 2?" and "it didn't work in version 2, why doesn't it work yet in version 3?" messages and realize that Sibelius is way behind Finale in terms of program maturity.
David H. Bailey
Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
At 3:19 AM -0500 3/25/04, Darcy James Argue wrote:
I should mention that I found out about this issue of Keyboard from composer (and Village Voice new music critic) Kyle Gann, who has some thoughts on his blog about Sibelius (his music notation software of choice) and about the influence of notation software on the composition process:
<http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/archives20040301.shtml#72698>
<http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/archives20040301.shtml#72838>
Just a couple of articles farther up there is an update, letting us know that Sib 3 can save files in Sib 2 format. There's an option I would have killed for in several versions of Finale!
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