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

[Bruce Stangeland]

Scott,

For over ten years I've been using first Allegro and then Finale on my Mac.
I find that Finale allows me to get as fancy as I want to with my lead 
sheets (or not).

It was fun seeing you in Sacramento.

Bruce Stangeland

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 10:32:19 -0700
From: "Scott Anthony" <santh at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Sibellious, Encore or Finale or ???
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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