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
