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1. #Finale printmusic 2011 upgrade full#
2. #Finale printmusic 2011 upgrade software#
3. #Finale printmusic 2011 upgrade professional#

I personally do not recommend Finale unless you meet these needs. I never used Finale enough to become proficient at it.and it takes a long time to become proficient at it. If you plan to actually publish your work where you work with an outside publisher.or in many cases if you are big enough to have orchestrators and arrangers that take your sketches and produce final form from that, etc.

#Finale printmusic 2011 upgrade software#

The market for notation software has always confused me.

#Finale printmusic 2011 upgrade professional#

That's not to say it's not used by professionals - it is, and it is as good as anything else used by professionals - but the business decisions and development are driven primarily by the education side, not the professional side. I think the reason for the slow development and poor decisions is because it's focused on the education market. Even beyond the Garritan disaster, Finale spent too much time/effort trying to add DAW features when they should have spent that time improving the workflow/UI with existing features. And somehow the Garritan thing happened - those sounds are awful. It is downright archaic in terms of the UI and feature set. I suspect a publisher will expect a more traditional look to the music that you can't really do in a DAW.Īlso - as noted above - I've been using Finale since the 90s and it is the slowest-progressing app I have used regularly over that time period. Having one look for the conductor and another for the musicians is necessary and can't really be done in a DAW score editor (I don't think.).Īnother reason to use something like Finale is if you're preparing a score/parts for a publisher.

#Finale printmusic 2011 upgrade full#

If you're preparing parts for full orchestra or other large ensemble then something like Finale's "Linked Parts" functionality is a huge help. I'm not familiar with the score editors in other DAWs but anything that can do basic notation will suffice. If you're just adding a few musicians to a production created in a DAW then the score editor in Cubase is perfectly fine. Finale is vastly more appropriate for that task.

But I'd never use Staffpad to prepare parts for a full ensemble.

If you just like to compose using notation then something like Staffpad is a better bet. I still have several old versions of Finale on my rigs due to some of the houses I have worked with, 20 still being on my desktop.Ĭlick to expand.Yeah it really depends on what you're doing. You can still use the older versions if you need it. (Just as I am typing this, I see Finale updated some of their fonts to be complaint, so maybe these now work within Dorico?)Īll that aside, if you know Finale well and do not want to learn a completely new way of working, I'd just grab the update. I just wish there were some better fonts using SMuFL, but I just may end up having to make some. With some of the additions coming down the pipeline, it was worthwhile for me to get into it. Having used all three for music prep internationally, Finale used to be my main one, I transitioned over to Dorico.Įven with all of my custom scripts and macros, the amount of time Dorico saves me for certain aspects made it a worthwhile change, and although I was not really expecting it at the stage Dorico 3 was when I switched, the move has drastically decreased the amount of time required to get a chart finished.