[Dixielandjazz] Sibellious, Encore or Finale or ???

[Scott Anthony]

I gave up using Encore (admittedly a very old version) because it crashed on 
Windows 2000 and the then-publishers said they had no plans to fix it. 
Apparently, the people who bought or took over Encore must have really gone 
in an fixed a bunch of bugs. Nevertheless, since then I've used Finale and 
it has been great. Finale will also import Encore files although not 
perfectly.

I was on the team that wrote the Windows and Mac versions of the 
GuitarVision.com guitar tutor player (free to download at GuitarVision.com 
by the way). My role was to write the software tools to read Sibellius 
generated midi files and add proprietary midi-like codes for bending 
strings, hammer-on, and pull-off, etc. specific to guitar playing. We were 
given Sibellius to play with even though we really didn't need to use it 
directly in the work. I found Sibellius to be difficult to learn after 
working with Encore and Finale, which are much closer to each other than to 
Sibellius in user-interface, layout, and just overall "concept." If anyone 
is thinking about "moving up" from Encore for some reason, Finale would 
require a much easier learning curve in my opinion.

Scott Anthony

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Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Sibellious, Encore or Finale or ???


> Hi Donn. Glad to see your notes on Encore, which I've been using for well
> over a decade. Used it for my fake books.
>
> Have they made any substantive improvements/changes to it?
>
> How far back did your Windows system check go--I'm still using Windows
> 98SE on my main machine, though one of these days I may switch over to my
> new XP machine.
>
> --Sheik
>
>> Dixieland Jazz:
>> I do have the new Encore program 4.5.5 and it does open the old Encore
>> files and will read them just as if they were written on 4.5.5.  I know
>> that once you save a file on 4.5.5 you are now unable to read it on the
>> old Encore program.  That is the only problem that I have.   I have made
>> certain that 4.5.5 works on Vista, XP and earlier systems.  I use Encore
>> all the time and find it more user friendly than Sibellius.
>> Donn  oboist at prodigy.net
>
>
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