The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #132247 Message #2990644
Posted By: Artful Codger
21-Sep-10 - 12:27 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Sibelius vs Finale
Subject: RE: Tech: Sibelius vs Finale
No, with PrintMusic 2010 they can't be done in any natural way. Some can be emulated in bizarre, unnatural ways (like layers and hidden rests), but the program does not support these features in any direct way, and neither the interface nor the documentation indicates any way to get around things like the end-of-measure fixity. A couple features are addressed in the high-end Finale (such as the ability to define your own templates), but the full documentation for that product indicates no resolution for the most troublesome problems I've listed for PrintMusic, which is why I won't upgrade to the high-end version, nor even upgrade to the just-released version of PrintMusic. I only upgraded to 2010 because of a licensing problem--the added enhancements I don't care about (and in fact, made it more difficult to use the program), while none of the basic features needed to write even simple music properly were added. Incredible.