If you're interested in trying something new with Finale, you can also
join our Perfect Layout beta test.
The plug-in is a massive layout helper for Finale with more than 100
features including collision detection and automatic score balancing.
More info https://elbsound.studio/perfect-layout/
and the latest video demo: https://www.youtube.com/embed/VIFQZjLg7pA
The public beta has been around now for a few months now (after 5 years
of development). To join the beta you need to subscribe to the Elbsound
newsletter and will get more info by mail as it still requires a
non-disclosure agreement.
The plug-in is not available for free, but participating in the beta
will get you a good discount.
Currently only the Windows version is available. It runs in 2014,
2014.5, 25 and with minor limitations in 26.
The MacOS version is on the way - here a preview from last week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFUpFmfAGMk .
Jan Angermueller
Elbsound.studio
Am 24.01.2019 um 21:37 schrieb Craig Parmerlee:
I would also note Sibelius 2019 was announced this week. It seems to
be roughly the same magnitude of the Finale 26 release. I am sure the
improvements are welcome, but really, this is a minuscule amount of
improvement for a paid release. Dorico is adding capability 10-to-100
times faster than either Finale or Sibelius.
Dorico has a steep learning curve, and it is getting steeper all the
time as layers of capability are added. It still lacks a few things
that the other programs have. For example, there is not yet any
automatic way to have a single line in the score (e.g. FHorn 1&3)
break out to separate parts for Fhorn 1 and FHorn 3. And Dorico's
automatic playback isn't as advanced as Finale Human Playback. But
Dorico already does some things that are well beyond Finale and
Sibelius. Moreover, the architecture is more elegant, particularly in
the ability to lay out music intelligently in a minimum amount of
time. On the playback side, many people are using Note Performer with
Dorico and claiming very good results. I don't care that much. The
playback is good enough for what I do.
I still have Finale 25 installed in case it is required for a
collaboration, but I am doing all my new projects in Dorico now. I
find a typical project is taking about half as long with Dorico as I
would have spent in Finale. Much of that comes at the back end where
I had to spend hours in final editing of part layouts. With Dorico I
typically spend about one minute per page for part layout -- sometimes
no editing at all. But Dorico also provides big opportunities for time
saving during the note entry and harmonization processes.
On 1/22/2019 8:21 AM, David H. Bailey wrote:
Hello Finale and Sibelius Friends,
I'm forwarding this message to both the Finale and Sibelius groups,
in case anybody is interested in exploring Dorico. Using the code
DORICO30 you can get 30% off of either Dorico 2 or Dorico Elements 2
(a lighter version of Dorico) for this week only apparently.
Both of those programs also have free demo versions you can download
and explore.
I'm not trying to push it on anybody but I know some people might be
curious. Version 2 brought many major improvements over version 1.
I freely admit that I am still not very fluent in Dorico, knowing
that it will take me a lot of work to master it, but I also know
there are people in both Finale and Sibelius groups who have taken to
Dorico and are doing major projects in it.
There is a forum at steinberg.net for people who want to get a sense
of how users are faring with the product.
Dorico still uses their elicenser software or their extra-cost USB
dongle, so for people who are vehemently opposed to such anti-piracy
methods, nothing has changed and you probably won't want to explore
Dorico beyond the demo versions (I don't know if those have any
anti-piracy methods since they're freely distributed by Steinberg.)
However, given the lack of forward motion in Sibelius and the lack of
substantive improvements in Finale beyond the automatic stacking of
articulations, Dorico may well be the future of professional level
computer notation software.
Just wanted to let you all know,
David H. Bailey
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