Richard Smith wrote:
I'm not sure Sibelius is better than Finale at midi import. Both seem to
make quite a mess of it. in my experience, Sibelius seems to leave more
"debris" around while Finale gives a cleaner initial look but tends to
"truncate" complex data.
MusicXML is very effective but, unlike Finale, Sibelius requires you to
buy the full plug-in to export MusicXML. So if you don't have the
plug-in, this may not be a good choice. Importing MusicXMLis, however,
free and has become the best method for moving from Finale to Sibelius.
And I'm convinced they licensed this technology from Recordare precisely
because it was becoming much harder to get the ETF format to import
correctly -- Sibelius was always a couple of versions behind the current
Finale, when it came to importing. With MusicXML, especially since
Finale has MusicXML export (I wonder why they don't eliminate this the
way that Sibelius ships without it, precisely to make moving from Finale
to Sibelius more difficult?), there is no need for Sibelius to waste
development dollars trying to keep up with Finale's file format.
With Finale2007, that would have become near to impossible, what with
the linked scores/parts in the same file and no more export-to-ETF
capability.
I wonder how MusicXML export works for linked score/parts in Finale?
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David H. Bailey
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