Sibelius 5 works the same as 4 with regard to instrument brackets; you
can place thin "sub-brackets" within any bracketed instrument sets.
Braces will collide with brackets so should not be used together. Fine
if thats the setup you need but if you need more flexibility or nested
braces, Sibelius is not a good choice. This is especially true if you
are trying to recreate historical editions that have other bracketing
schemes.
That having been said, there are also things that Finale cannot do.
Working on some piano reductions for a client who insisted on Finale, I
needed to be able to reassign voices (or layers) on a note by note basis
so that rhythms that were not identical could be correctly notated in a
single staff. My Finale (o5) would not allow that (it was a simple,
straightforward task in Sibelius). Discussions with MM tech support and
"the Toms" at a convention confirmed that Finale would only allow voice
reassignments on a complete bar but not a single note. I had to re-enter
several bars from scratch to get the desired result. I am not aware if
later Finale versions have corrected this, but, since I expect to
upgrade this year, I'll find out.
The fact is that both programs have things they do well and others that
are awkward or not directly possible. We should be grateful for two
very through choices.
Richard Smith
http://www.rgsmithmusic.com
Robert Patterson wrote:
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 6:31 AM, dhbailey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I can't think of anything which is possible in Finale which isn't
possible in Sibelius these days,
Sib4 could not even do something as trivial as nested instrument
brackets. Can Sib5 do these?
ust as there are probably things possible with Sibelius
which are not possible (or are difficult) in Finale,
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