I bought Sibelius 6 this year and, like others, have found it incredibly difficult to use - not the fault of Sibelius, but my fault
I bought Sibelius partly because of the cheap deal they were offering earlier this year and partly because I was increasingly being offered scores in Sibelius that I needed to be able to work on. I have only ever used Finale before and can work very quickly in it which means that using Sibelius slows me down considerably. There are two problems - one is my unfamiliarity with Sibelius, I don't know what to do instinctively, I have to think about it (and I haven't gone through the exercises nor read the manual thoroughly yet). The other is, as David has mentioned, I see what I do through Finale eyes and the two programmes are very different and I'm sure that David is correct in asserting that you have to treat it a brand new programme, not just as a different kind of Finale. Interestingly, I find that my students, who were introduced to both programmes at the same time, have no problems with either and no preference. Even so, even at this primitive level I can see that there are some things that Sibelius does better and some things that Finale does better. I am still waiting for David's "aha" moment - I'm sure it will come one day. Cheers, Lawrence -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
