Sadly, yes, Finale is lacking in "House Styles". The Maestro Default
File really looks bad. And then we get into all the
templates......*shutters*. Don't make me go there......
They really should have Bill Duncan supply the default templates. Of
course, for nice princely sum ;-)
John Howell wrote:
At 10:19 PM -0400 9/25/06, Christopher Smith wrote:
I know Finale's default spacing is not up to professional standards,
for example. But unless they are seeing Finale output tweaked by a
pro, they aren't seeing what the program can do, and it is an unjust
criticism, in addition to being non-specific.
I hesitate to comment in this particular religious war, because I've
never seen anyone change their mind, but why in the world should a
product that claims to be "the best" ship with defaults that have a
long-time reputation for being "the worst"!?! Yes, the defaults give
results that look like they've been done by a computer, and a fairly
retarded computer at that. And then we get stuck playing from those
awful pages turned out by Nashville arrangers!!!
What percentage of Finale users do you suppose use it right out of the
box, expect it to give professional results because it's touted as a
professional tool, and are not power users? 90%? 95%? 99%? In my
opinion there is no excuse and never has been for shipping defaults
that are not of professional quality. At the very least, a choice of
carefully thought out designs should be offered as "house styles."
And isn't that exactly what the Sibelius designers did?
John
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