Dorico 5 Pro (production) Finale 27.4.1 (archived work only) _ GPO5 / GCPO / Chris Hein Ensemble Strings / Modern Scoring Brass / E-W Symphonic Choirs / Fisk organ (O Forbes) _ MacMini i7 6 core / 64mb RAM _ MacMini i5 4 core / 16MB RAM (archived files)
I agree all your points. As to the MacOS, I actually have Finale running on its own separate MacMini, the OS frozen, software updates turned off, [edit: and not connected to the internet]. I use a ...
FBO others, it's not an impossible task. Other than a week on the slope of the learning curve, I am having no trouble with Dorico - I have acquired conversational fluency, and have replaced a publi...
My experience is the same - though XML import was complicated because my arrangements have large time signatures in the first measure, which 1) results in a mucked up Dorico file, and 2) Dorico imp...
For sure the parts are amazing, most of my time in Finale was dealing with the broken cue note system and multimeasure rests that should create (or uncreate) themselves. I did have to mess with my ...
It is possibly smufl-related. ason Loffedo's Conquering Finale YouTube series has a detailed explanation of the differences with SMuFL vs Finale's own fonts. Here's a link to one of them - he has a...
Not if you have large time signatures. You will wind up with signposts everywhere, and an ordinary time signature on the measure the large time signature was in with flags (signposts) on all the ot...
The problems arise when you have anything unusual on the very first measure - especially large time signatures, tough one of my first attempts failed over a staff style instead. If you have have so...
I wanted a hardware solution, as I have other reasons for running two separate actual (not virtual) machines. I also did not miss the escape (weasel) words in MuseScore's announcement, but it is no...
@ MIKE HALLORAN You might be interested in this tidbit on the MuseScore blog"We have begun drafting plans to support common workflows found in Finale, particularly note entry and shortcuts. Our ult...
Virtually every instrument (sorry) used by Bach, and the methods of composition and publication he used for everything he wrote, have been superseded since his day.... but his music is still having...