Many thanks to David H. Bailey, I went for the Sibelius crossgrade offer and also subscribed to the Yahoo list you mentioned!
Giovanni -------- Giovanni Andreani www.giovanniandreani.com >Thanks David, > >You just wrote a couple of precious things I was right now asking myself! > > >-------- > >Giovanni Andreani > >www.giovanniandreani.com > >>On 11/16/2014 1:40 AM, Giovanni Andreani wrote: >>> Thank you Christopher, I am 2014: I inadvertently wrote 2012 after >>reading about the same issue occurred to many 2012 users on the web. >>> I also have the felling that something local is setting a threshold: >>I'm no longer able to permanently authorize finale and have to go over >>and over with this annoying process every time it launches. This >>happened, as I casually noticed, after repairing permissions via Disk >>Utility: maybe things like this trigger these weird behaviours. >>> While I really don't know what else to do, I'm silently training on >>Sibelius. >>> >> >>There is a very helpful Sibelius group at yahoogroups, very much like >>this group for Finale, filled with Sibelius users of all backgrounds and >>skill levels, in case you want to learn more. >> >>I started with Sibelius way back in version 2.11 when they first offered >>a competitive cross-grade deal for Finale users but it wasn't until >>version 5 that I really made the push to learn the program from the >>ground up instead of constantly complaining about how things were >>difficult compared to Finale. I stopped trying to make it "Finale-East" >>and learned it as a brand new program and rapidly found it to be a whole >>lot easier for the bulk of the composing/arranging/engraving projects >>that I do. >> >>I have kept up with Finale (currently have 2014 installed) mainly in the >>hopes that with all the changes in ownership of MakeMusic over the past >>several years that the development team would finally be allowed to >>clean up Finale and let it become the industry leader it used to be. >>That hope hasn't died in me yet, but it's flickering. >> >>What I've learned over the years that I've used both fluently is that >>each has its strengths and its weaknesses so I dearly hope that Finale's >>latest shift to Colorado and the gutting of what used to be MakeMusic >>won't be the death-knell for the program. >> >>Of course with Avid being on equally but different shaky ground, there's >>no guarantee about the future for either product and with Steinberg's >>new notation program still a long long way from being brought to market >>all we can do is to cover our butts by learning both Sibelius and Finale >>and hoping that both companies survive their current turmoils. >> >> >> >>-- >>David H. Bailey >>dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com >>http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com >>_______________________________________________ >>Finale mailing list >>Finale@shsu.edu >>https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >>To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >>finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > > > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >Finale@shsu.edu >https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > >To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
