![]() ![]() Finale is like a 1st-year apprentice, who must still be shown how to do everything, and is not yet experienced enough to be trusted with any of the work itself. But this is after Dorico has already done sufficient basic layout work. I would argue that the controls for manual adjustments in Dorico are more capable and easier to use than Finale's. * Could handle ties on arpeggios with a single keypress?Ĭorrecting these failings is not the user's 'control' of the notation: it is Finale's enslavement of the user! * Floated rests further away when notes sat in their default position? * Moved staves apart to accommodate dynamics, slurs, lyrics, leger lines, etc? (Or provided any basic collision avoidance?) (And you'll be lucky if Finale doesn't move them back!) * Positioned opposing voices correctly? Writing piano music, you must make thousands of these corrections needlessly. ![]() Would you really find it unwelcome if Finale: I was doing so much of this that by the time I'd got a document looking 'ok', I had run out of either time or patience for subtleties. John, I appreciate that your level of artistry and attention to detail is higher than most, but I spent most of my time with Finale not exercising artistic judgment or applying finesse, but just making basic corrections to deficiencies in Finale's notation. If anything, I want more direct control over every element on the page, rather than less. Since I'm spending the next week cleaning up 80ish pages of contemporary piano music in it, I was just wondering who else around here has made the switch. I am giving it an honest go though, and really like many aspects of it. Has anyone else made the switch to making it your primary notation software? Any pet peeves / workarounds / etc? I've been posting a bit on the Dorico forums, admittedly sometimes out of ignorance, but there are definitely things that are much more difficult, if not impossible, to accomplish in Dorico than Finale. ties he wrote are a colossal PITA to get right in Finale. I was working on an engraving job for a 5 movement piano piece in Finale (since the composer wrote it in Finale) and just got permission to XML it over to Dorico as all the grace notes and l.v. I finally did my first commission in it (mostly because the Kimmel Center gave me entire month to do it) and even though I was incredibly slow, actually quite enjoyed learning it. I was just curious now that 2.x has been out a while, who else is making the switch over to Dorico? I see benwiggy over on the forums a lot, but just wondering who else is trying it and what your experience has been. ![]()
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