On 9/8/24 23:50, Nil wrote:
On 06 Sep 2024, Tobiah <[email protected]> wrote in rec.audio.pro:
https://www.finalemusic.com/
I took them up on their offer of Dorico for $150.
End of an era.
Have you ever looked at Musescore, especially recently? It's very quite full-featured and is continuously improving. And, of course, free. I'm curious what more you get for $150.
I haven't run it for a number of years. I admit I didn't consider
it, assuming that the project would be lacking in important ways.
I will have another look.
I do like Dorico, so far. You don't need to switch tools all the time,
so I started entering all music, dynamics, slurs etc. in a linear fashion, whereas with Finale I always did many passes; music on stave 1, then 2...
then dynamics, then slurs etc. Most things are under the fingers.
I remember checking out Finale along time ago, and the interface seemed impenetrable to me at that time. However, I wasn't really used to
notation software then, but after using Musescore for a while, I now understand the process better and might get along with other notation programs. But for my fairly limited needs, Musescore ticks off most or
all the boxes.
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