Dorico Pro 6.x, previously Finale 27.4 http://dbtmusic.wordpress.com/
Interesting. I'm on my third Dorico-notated composition currently since I switched in early Sept and if anything, my output has significantly increased since I'm not futzing with rests, dealing wit...
They really do a decent job of having entire tutorials aimed at us former finale users. Their online manual is not what I’d have wanted but the forum is amazing. Questions are nicely answered very ...
Actually, if you use their preferred and default duration before pitch method, it is speedy entry with the caps lock key down to enter a bunch of notes with the same duration.
I have been able to put notes into my piano line but when I try to bring it to lets say my Trumpet line I am lost. I used to drag it to that staff. Extracting I think I see how that is done. ...
@john, I feel your pain having also started with Finale many decades ago when it was still on floppy disks (I still have the box with the really nice printed manuals by David Pogue). But I've been ...
Hey Biggs: I'm not going to indulge you further after this, but no, Finale is no longer "the best." It probably hasn't been "the best" in several years. And no, this train has sailed. MM is not goi...
As mentioned, it is indeed keyboard-centric and I'm a trackpad person, but as with most professional software, there are many ways to accomplish the same thing. So I can right-click and filter seve...
Thanks. I actually had not been aware of that distinction for searching the help pages and will try that next time. Much appreciated.
Ernie, I’m in the middle of my second score using Dorico, having ditched Finale (MM ditched us users, so I have zero loyalty to a dead program when the company didn’t even care to remove the author...
Well of course not how could I possibly be right. Oh, lets see, you were a guy like motet that complained about Finale for a long time. Loudly I might affirm. Now you found your holy grail and of...