After many years hiatus from the music biz I am dusting off the old
onion skins and getting back into writing. The last version of
Finale I used in earnest was Finale 98, but I have seen and
experimented with both Finale 2006/2007 and Sibelius 4.xx. I do have
a lot of old music in the Finale 98 format, but I'm not all that
concerned about being able to reuse it. I'm sure I'd have to do some
major tweakage in any case, so it's just as easy to re-enter the
parts. One other consideration is that I'd *really* like to use the
Golden Age font - however I am confidant that I can modify it for use
in either application. Some of the fonts that come with Sibelius do
however look promising...
*SO*, what's the advice? Do I stick with Finale or do the Sibelius
crossgrade? What I have seen of the new Finale - it looks pretty
much the same as Finale 98, except with Aqua-looking buttons and a
lot of consumer-level features added that I'll never use. Sibelius
on the other hand, looks much slicker and fresher, and I've heard of
professionals using it instead of Finale, but all my experience has
been with Finale (with C-Lab's Notator sw before that! Does that
date me?!? :) )
I presume most of the readers of this list to be ardent Finale users,
but I'm sure you've at least looked at Sibelius, so I'd love to hear
your opinions on this (without starting a turf war of course.) The
issue has probably already been beaten to death, so if you'd rather
point me to an archive of such a discussion that would be welcome as
well.
FYI, I work mainly on a Mac (new MacPro machine pretty much maxed
out) alongside of Logic Pro, but I do also still use a Windows XP
machine, and could definitely see myself doing my recording on the
Mac and notation on PC if necessary, but generally I will use the
Mac. That being said, cross-platform compatibility of whichever app
I choose *is* an important feature to me.
Thanks in advance for your input! - Bob Shuster
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