The word on the street is that Sibelius is a very user-friendly program...
That being said, I use Finale [:D]
I do know that Finale is one of the more popular engraving tools... and can do just about anything that you want it to.
Kendor Music uses Finale and I believe that Hal Leonard used Finale engraving.
The problem with a great deal of "power" in a program... it that it requires a great deal of knowledge and research to use it (thus making it not-so user-friendly).
but as somebody mentioned earlier... if you have used one program for a long period of time with great success... why switch?
I'll keep using my Finale [:)]
besides... they upgrade EVERY year for the most part... and the upgrades have been very significant in the past couple of years.
I see Finale entering more into the world of "Playback" as Sibelius had done a couple of versions ago. That seems to be the most focus for these competitors at this time.
That being said, I use Finale [:D]
I do know that Finale is one of the more popular engraving tools... and can do just about anything that you want it to.
Kendor Music uses Finale and I believe that Hal Leonard used Finale engraving.
The problem with a great deal of "power" in a program... it that it requires a great deal of knowledge and research to use it (thus making it not-so user-friendly).
but as somebody mentioned earlier... if you have used one program for a long period of time with great success... why switch?
I'll keep using my Finale [:)]
besides... they upgrade EVERY year for the most part... and the upgrades have been very significant in the past couple of years.
I see Finale entering more into the world of "Playback" as Sibelius had done a couple of versions ago. That seems to be the most focus for these competitors at this time.