Darcy James Argue wrote: [snip]>
However, this is one area where Finale is actually currently much better than Sibelius. It would be nice to see MM try to widen their lead in the areas where they have a lead, rather than always trying to play catch-up.
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Yes, indeed. GPO for Sibelius is an extra-cost add-on currently. I'm sure Sibelius is close to version 5 (it's been a year and a half since version 4, and that came out a year and a half after version 3), so it will be very interesting to see if they wrap SibGPO into the package, and will also be interesting to see how the integrate it.
Of course, Sibelius was already interlocked with Kontakt, offering Kontakt Silver as a playback engine included with the package and Kontakt Gold as an extra-cost upgrade, so apparently adding GPO is a fairly easy thing, but I don't think many Sib users have made the plunge. At least there hasn't been much discussion of it on the Sib list.
I agree that MM should try to widen their leads over Sib in those areas where it has the leads, and they should publicize those things. Not in a "We're better than Sibelius in these ways . . ." but in a more generic "The leading notation software package should be able to do the following, and Finale can do all that right out of the box. No other notation software can make that claim." Then they should list all the things Finale can do which Sibelius can't do.
No matter how much I like GPO or not, I will admit that when I have used it (for small ensembles, not having a computer with enough power to do a full score with GPO) it has been easy and done well.
Another way I have found to prevent clipping in GPO is to simply lower the output volume on my soundcard by using the speaker icon in the systray. It's always visible and easy to adjust.
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