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Brand: MakeMusic! EAN: 0606776000680 Edition: Windows Format: CD-ROM Label: MakeMusic! Manufacturer: MakeMusic! Model: codf231 Platform: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP Publisher: MakeMusic! Release Date: June 15, 2003 Studio: MakeMusic! Features:
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 Rating:  - The best is still the best!!!Finale introduced computerized music notation combined with MIDI capabilities to us back in the mid-80's and they have continued to raise the bar every year. For serious composers, there really is no other option. Do not take the reviewers that claim Sibelius is better too seriously. Sibelius created a very pretty interface with the ability to perform simple tasks, but it is very limited. Their interface style has limited them from being able to perform nessasary functions (like the ability to ... Read More Rating:  - There is indeed only one FinaleTo the reviewer from Moscow, ID. - who wants to buy a software application and then have to come back to Amazon and buy extra books written by third party users in order to understand how to use the software? Well the answer is nobody - except Amazon. And to say that Finale is the gold standard for profesionals is absurd. I am a professional copyist and I much prefer to use Sibelius. I only use Finale when required (I am an expert on both). And when I get Finale files from clients - the ... Read More Rating: - So simple!My friend and I were both going to play for church. He and I regularly play trumpet/trombone duets. I have a book of empty staves that you can write in music, and for like the past year we had been using that. So this Sabbath (today) we planned on playing "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name". He had given me a book of contemporary hymns that had that hymn in it and told me to arrange it so that there would be harmony (as the book only had melodies that were to be played to a cd). So I stayed up the night ... Read More Rating:  - Sibelius is betterFinale is good, and you can pretty much do the same things as with Sibelius, but the latter is incredibly faster and easier to use. Sibelius is really intuitive -- I just guess something and it usually works -- which really saves you a lot of time: in a day or two, I knew how to do everything I needed to do. With Finale, I used it for 5 years, and I still don't know how to do certain things. It took me a couple of weeks just to get me started, and still after a year or two I was discovering some pretty essential ... Read More Rating: - OK but really not the best any moreWell, I used Finale for several years and thought it must the best notation software out there, though I found it quite hard work to learn (a story I've often heard from other composers), being a musician first and foremost rather than a computer expert. Then I tried Sibelius, which took off like wildfire here in the UK a few years ago. A revelation - the difference is so great, nothing would make me go back to Finale now, after all those months of struggling with it before I could get any real work done. ... Read More |
