I did the crossgrade back at v4. Sibelius does take a lot of getting used to, but that’s to be expected.
v4 was awful IMO, v5 a bit better, and v6 better still, all for my needs. v7 they redid the entire GUI and I hated it. It was the final straw for me to abandon it; but YMMV. The biggest issues I had with it were: 1. Slurs. v6 improved them greatly but doing things like cross-staff slurs and especially cross-voiced slurs are very nearly impossible. You can do it but it is very much a kludge to adjust them and keep them adjusted properly. They simply aren’t designed to do that the way Finale does. My work sees a lot of these types of slurs. 2. Transposition with parts. This was my coffin-nail with Sibelius. When you have transposed parts you CANNOT have a different enharmonic spelling in the part than the score. They are linked irrevocably and Daniel Spreadbury, the former resident Avid/Sibelius guru who was let go some time ago, verified this to me shortly before the v7 release. They did NOT implement that in v7 either. This is completely asinine to me. There are other quirks but at the same time there are some noticeable advantages and disadvantages to each program; too numerous to mention here. One would experience the same thing if going from Sibelius to Finale. There is an expected learning curve but it’s not insurmountable. I will also say that transferring files in either direction via xml is a bit of a mini-nightmare, particularly where text expressions are concerned. I does work, but there is a LOT of manual cleanup after the transfer, in either direction. But the only way you’re going to find out is to dive in. You might like v7’s new interface. But I didn’t. HTH a little. J D Thomas ThomaStudios > On May 27, 2015, at 8:38 AM, Neal Gittleman <nealg...@mac.com> wrote: > > A query for any of you who have done the Finale-to-Sibelius cross-grade. On > the Sibelius site they characterize it as “switch to Sibelius…” but I assume > that doing this cross-grade doesn’t at all affect your ability to continue to > use Finale in addition to Sibelius, right???? > > A stupid question, I’m sure, but some stupid questions are worth asking, like > “There IS water in this pool, isn’t there?” > > Neal Gittleman > _______________________________________________ > 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
