Finale or Sibelius
Posted: 02 Jan 2018, 20:23
Dear friends,
I am in a stalemate moment for now. My current system on all three computers is OS X 10.11.
I have to be on this system in order to run all programs and plugins properly.
My concern is Finale. I have been using it for 18 years.
Right now it is either v2014.5 or v25.5. In both cases the speed on all my machines is extremely slow.
Inserting objects, dragging page or moving an object takes a very long time, or it is lagging extremely.
It is hard to work. I use large scores, or 'heavy' scores (above 60k items per score).
I am thinking to move to Sibelius 8.7 which I just upgraded to.
I feel that I will loose the full control that Finale offers to me, but the speed in Sibelius and magnetic positioning (not in all cases) is appealing to me.
I am also scared of entering into Sibelius and than realizing it is not as I expected it to work.
Any advice?
Thanks.
(Dorico I have never tried but I will check it in some years, some tools I am missing there.)
I am in a stalemate moment for now. My current system on all three computers is OS X 10.11.
I have to be on this system in order to run all programs and plugins properly.
My concern is Finale. I have been using it for 18 years.
Right now it is either v2014.5 or v25.5. In both cases the speed on all my machines is extremely slow.
Inserting objects, dragging page or moving an object takes a very long time, or it is lagging extremely.
It is hard to work. I use large scores, or 'heavy' scores (above 60k items per score).
I am thinking to move to Sibelius 8.7 which I just upgraded to.
I feel that I will loose the full control that Finale offers to me, but the speed in Sibelius and magnetic positioning (not in all cases) is appealing to me.
I am also scared of entering into Sibelius and than realizing it is not as I expected it to work.
Any advice?
Thanks.
(Dorico I have never tried but I will check it in some years, some tools I am missing there.)