The Garritan playback sounds are not good. Bass Trombone sound is horrible. Some sounds are badly out of tune, especially choral voices. I started with Finale 3. A bit cumbersome with age, but robust, and extremely flexible with add-ons and some kludges.
I mentioned before that finale gets very buggy the more complex your music becomes. Also dynamics refuse to stay locked. Not great but it is easy to use and has decent playback sounds and — combined with using musescore for individual parts — is a reasonably decent free option. Finale has some strengths, but for any advanced notation it is very weak. Importing graphics or adding graphics to a score is particularly difficult.
Finale will get the job done, but I think there are probably much better options now. Which software? Sibelius was fantastic at one time. Sibelius 5 and 6 were truly astonishing software. After the development team were laid off in , it began a downward spiral from which it has not recovered.
I find note entry to be incredibly quick and intuitive, and it allows for a great deal of customization for creating new symbols or integrating music and text. I have been using Finale for 25 years. I have tried other notation applications and have always returned to Finale.
I find finale all too often has compatibility issues with school-owned or older desktop computers. However, I must admit that Finale is a useful tool and can be quite versatile if one is willing to put the time in to learning all the ins and outs of the program as well as the time and effort that it takes to deal with its shortcomings. My familiarity with the software almost prevents me from switching to another paid program. Does what I need it to do.
Enables me to make detailed and complicated notations easily. I know Finale pretty well at this point. I use it multiple times each week. I have yet to run into major problems. It works completely fine on my refurbished MacBook Pro. I use it compose for marching band, rewrite parts, and create comprehensive exercises for my students.
Self taught. Currently using Finale Might upgrade when I retire from my non-music day job. My friends who do use finale, say they love it. Most of my musician friends are Sibelius users, and feel that Finale is illogical and difficult to learn. It is the industry standard for musical theatre and although it can be buggy, there are always workarounds and shortcuts. I think some of them are more satisfied with it than others, but what are you gonna do?
We have a bit of a disagreement, as many prefer sibelius. However, I firmly believe that while it has a steeper learning curve finale has a far greater application than other softwares. It is the industry standard after all. Typically the pro-Finale camp claims prettier engraving and publisher standards while the Sibelius crowd points to the difficult interface and note entry.
Many colleagues use Sibelius and note that it is pretty much the same software. I have many students who use MuseScore since it is free and although it is fairly good the results are usually amateurish. Most people I know find Finale adequate for their needs — more than Sibelius. Several people who I know have moved to Dorico recently though. Finale is versatile but lacks features particularly usability features that my friends and I feel are essential for creating a professional-looking score and parts efficiently.
Sibelius makes it easy to produce a professional-looking score and parts, but lack of attention from developers has left the program stagnant, buggy, and decreasingly relevant.
Many of these friends also eventually admit, after some hesitation, that Sibelius is more immediately simple and accessible, but Finale is a more powerful program. Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors. Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
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If you are willing to make the effort, however, Lilypond is quite beguiling. As for Finale, personally I can't make one note stick Thanked by 1 Adam Wood. Having been a Score user for ever, this year I finally got both Finale and Sibelius 7. As an unbiased new user, I found Finale very easy to use and with an excellent user's manual and introductory material.
I found a few things in Sibelius to like, but not the user's manual. So I'm using Finale for most new notational things now. Since I also used a DAW for midi sequencing, neither is satisfactory to me for that purpose. But it is pleasant to hear sounds, optionally, in either, as the notes are entered, Score being a silent, visual program always.
Thanked by 2 Adam Wood Gavin. Richard R. March Posts: I've always used finale and see no reason to switch. It's not necessary to upgrade every year. Finale also offers some lighter versions of the program for a lot less money depending on what features you are looking for. I just wish they would offer a Gregorian font for chant. But in case you were wondering, here was your pricey! I forgot to mention that for engraving music with autographic recognition, InDesign is it.
I'm very comfortable with Sibelius, but then again, that's what we were required to use during my music degree in college. I think it's always been pretty intuitive and has become second nature to me. At GIA, we use Finale for all engraving of music. Editorial at GIA says it is much more customizable than Sibelius. The entire company is a Mac house, if that makes any difference or not.
I think everyone for the most part is just comfortable with the program they used first. For me, this is Finale. If you're looking for your first music program, I think it should probably be Finale since I believe Sib is not going to release any new versions of their program Thanks for all your responses. I have used Finale for 20 some years, but what is frustrating is that they only offer support for the latest version - you can't even ask an online question for any version older than So I have problems with it that I cannot solve.
Also there persinickety features which are problematic that they have never fixed. Also, the company forum-'support' site has not worked correctly for two years. If this is how they treat their customer a 20 year customer at that then maybe it's time to move on.
The company that developed Sibelius was acquired a few years ago, and in the original development team was laid off, so product improvements may be slow in coming. If you are comfortable with facebook, both finale and sibelius have active groups where a question is often answered more quickly than on the official fora.
I use Finale simply because I'm much more efficient with it and it's working for my computer well. Maybe it's because I'm running a very low-budget Toshiba, but that's my experience with it. Ben Yanke April Posts: 3, For those who don't use it much, MuseScore has been good to me. Find solutions for sound mixing, sound editing, sound design, ADR, and Foley. Contact Sales Shop. Sibelius is the 1 notation application and is an industry standard for both composers and publishers 2.
With Sibelius, you can complete the end-to-end workflow from creating a musical idea, to orchestrating to engraving, to publishing online using Sibelius Cloud Publishing. No other music notation application can provide the whole solution. Sibelius is designed to take full advantage of modern computers.
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