Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2004-02-08 Thread William Roberts
Hi Darcy, Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Been out of town for a couple of days! >Thanks for your reply. Since you say you never used Sibelius in OS 9, >I'm guessing you jumped on board with Sib 2.0? Yes, I got Sibelius 2.1 in fact. When I got a new Mac with OS X I thought I'd give

Re: [Finale] Lyrics in Sibelius (Was: 2k5 features (was Expression Metatools))

2004-02-08 Thread William Roberts
Hi Dennis, You asked whether Sibelius handled two situations that Finale has trouble with concerning lyrics. The one thing I tend to use Sibelius for rather than Finale is choral scores, because I prefer Sibelius's lyric handling over Finale's. >The trouble with these "smart hyphens" is that th

Re: [Finale] Dot beyond barline (Was: Re: comparing finale/sibelius)

2004-02-08 Thread William Roberts
Hi all, Sorry not to have been around since I posted my response to that big old list. Back now! >> David Fenton wrote: >> >What about things like you see on the last page of this score: >> > >> >http://www.bway.net/~dfenton/Collegium/Scores/MorleyRoses.pdf >> > > >> I imagine it could be done

Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2004-02-06 Thread William Roberts
Hi all, I sent this reply yesterday, but because I'm not as competent with my email program as I am with my notation software, I sent it only to Johannes rather than to the whole list. Just in case there's still an appetite for all of this, here's my response to Johannes' request to find out e

Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2004-02-05 Thread William Roberts
Hi all, >69 reasons not to buy Sibelius over Finale This list is *so* inaccurate that I wish Jonathan would stop posting it. Obviously he's entitled to his opinions, and I'm no great lover of Sibelius myself (though I use it enough to know that Jonathan's list is just plain wrong in many cases

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 Review

2003-08-14 Thread William Roberts
Hi fellow listers, > I wonder if this is the call/response system that > Sibelius uses and that Microsoft now employs, where > the installation generates a huge alpha-numeric code > that you have to report to MakeMusic and they return > you an answering code. It sounds to me *exactly* like th

Re: [Finale] Re: Registration codes and copyright

2003-08-14 Thread William Roberts
David H. Bailey wrote: >I read with interest Tyler's Q/A post, where Finale2004 will have a >maintenance release that will include the ability for us to "transport" >the registration code to a different machine -- that is EXACTLY the >garbage that Sibelius does, and depending on the required me

Re: [Finale] RE: 2004 Panic

2003-08-12 Thread William Roberts
David H. Bailey wrote: > But your reply doesn't come back immediately, > which is what I meant. Really? I've re-registered my copy of Sibelius on the internet by filling in their form, and I got my registration number emailed to me right then and there, within seconds. I was up and running

Re: [Finale] RE: 2004 Panic

2003-08-10 Thread William Roberts
David H. Bailey wrote: >Then you have to contact Sibelius (which does NOT have 24/7 live or >electronic installation assistance) and meekly ask for permission to >start using your legally purchased software again. I can't believe that I sound like a Sibelius apologist, but in the interest of e

[Finale] It's here -- Finale 2004!

2003-08-07 Thread William Roberts
Hi folks, Check this out: http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/f2k4/index.asp No mention of ship dates in the web tour, but it looks good. New playback (including "human" playback and a built-in soundfont), smarter expressions, fixes to accidental spacing in layers, automatic page turns and cue

Re: [Finale] FW: Turandot News 1

2003-08-01 Thread William Roberts
>> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Turandot News 1 >> >> We promised on the website that the program can be downloaded at the end >of >> July, but you should wait for it until the beginning of September. We made >> such a mistake that we underestimated the time for

RE: [Finale] Finale 2004 *not* to be OS X compatible?

2003-07-03 Thread William Roberts
Hi Allen, Thanks so much for your reply, straight from the horse's mouth! I shall sleep easier in my bed now. I'll take your advice and contact your technical support team about the sluggishness of Finale 2003 on my Mac. Hopefully they can help me to work as productively as possible until th

[Finale] Finale 2004 *not* to be OS X compatible?

2003-07-02 Thread William Roberts
Hello fellow listers, I was speaking to a colleague of mine in another school the other day, and he told me two little snippets that have me a bit worried! Firstly, he said that one of Coda's dealers had to pull Finale from their stand at an upcoming trade show because they only had new Macs on

Re: [Finale] Sibelius advice

2002-09-25 Thread William Roberts
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:32:42, Andrew Stiller wrote: > Be all which as it may, it's something I can (sigh) > live with--like the absence of binding margins--just > to get the furshlugginer job done. But boy, am I > gonna press this guy to get Finale for future > gigs. Actually, Sib 2 does all

[Finale] The "S" word again

2002-07-09 Thread William Roberts
Apropos of the discussion earlier today about the dreaded "S" word, has anybody heard about their new cross-grade offer? Cross-grade from any version of Finale or Encore to Sibelius for $179... pretty keen deal. My dealer told me about this yesterday. I've not upgraded to Finale 2003 yet, an