Exactly that’s why I have recently purchased the bill Duncan chord fonts for example but thank you for a great answer
Sent from my iPhone > On 20 Apr 2018, at 15:00, David H. Bailey <dhbaile...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> On 4/20/2018 8:28 AM, Martin Nickless wrote: >> Hi >> May I just ask what may seem very simplistic but what difference does dorico >> have on somebody i.e. myself that is primarily writing big band scores and >> small jazz groups quartets quintets etc >> to my mind finale works perfectly well for those type of projects >> Martin > [snip] > > For someone like you Dorico won't offer anything you can't already do just > fine in Finale, other than the frustration of needing to learn a new software > product. > > If Finale works perfectly well for you there's no need to change to a > different notation product unless/until your version of Finale stops working > with whatever future version of your OS happens to be on your machine. > > That's always the challenge for a new product in any field -- offering > sufficient improvements for a sufficient number of customers to make it > worthwhile to purchase the new product. And with Finale and Sibelius already > fairly mature products with established user bases, a new product like Dorico > (or Forte or Notion) has to offer benefits to a wide potential user base, and > so far I don't see any > > The benefit Dorico would offer someone like you would be if you were planning > on writing a major work, say a 90-minute cohesive jazz work which would have > short movements each of which would use a different size ensemble. Of course > with Finale you would most likely just create different files, one for each > piece. In Dorico you *might* find a more elegant way of accomplishing the > desired end result all within one single file. But outside of such a large > project, Dorico won't offer you anything other than a more elegant notation > font perhaps, and a different approach to entering the notes and getting the > desired result on paper. > > But if Finale works fine for you now, there's no need to change. > > -- > ***** > David H. Bailey > dhbaile...@comcast.net > 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
