OhI never used #Finale, I was on #Musescore and then #Dorico for the last few years.
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OhI never used #Finale, I was on #Musescore and then #Dorico for the last few years. I guess they are winding it down and offering a Dorico discount to try and make it up to their users. I like Dorico, but I'm not sure I'd be thrilled about that.
https://www.finalemusic.com/blog/end-of-finale-new-journey-dorico-letter-from-president/#EngravingSoftware #MusicSoftware #MusicNotation #NotationSoftware
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Stan Stewart aka muz4nowreplied to Dan Carkner🎻 last edited by
@carkner
I used Finale back in the dark ages. Tried Sibelius (ewwww) for a while and now on MuseScore.
Curious why you switched to Dorico…
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Dan Carkner🎻replied to Stan Stewart aka muz4now last edited by
@muz4now the answer is easy, I got funded for a Dorico pro license through a project I was consulting onI knew it was coming so I tried the trial and light version for months before, but yeah that was the main reason. I'm used to it now, and it creates elegant scores, but it can have maddening logic at times, not gonna lie. Musescore has come so far that I would recommend it to the average non professional user as a first choice.
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Stan Stewart aka muz4nowreplied to Dan Carkner🎻 last edited by
@carkner I’ve used MuseScore quite successfully for professional scoring, too. Been on it since the Avid price gouging got the best of me.
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)replied to Stan Stewart aka muz4now last edited by
Apropos of not very much, back in the 80s I was modifying personal computers at the OS level to provide speech output and Braille input to assist people with visual impairment - did a lot of good stuff.
This was for the UK's Open University.
Then the project changed to creating a music writing package - before even Sibelius was first launched.
Made decent progress too but then the money was cut and that was that. I sometimes think about what might have been...
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Stan Stewart aka muz4nowreplied to adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) last edited by
@adaddinsane @carkner Very interesting! Ah yes: the “what might have been”.
I worked on Kaypro computers back in those days. Definitely not powerful enough for what you describe (of course)!