Firstly, you don't have to use the SFZ player. The only reason for installing it is to get the ARIA Engine version up to 1.978. This is the most up-to-date version (e.g. MM's "version 2" is actuall...
Plogue have always been fairly tight-lipped, though it now seems clear from comments that they are planning a 'next-generation' player; and that they do have an eye to backwards compatibility. If ...
It's possible that Dorico might not identify staves from an XML import as being "vocal" -- if you've renamed them to "Douglas" and "Cynthia" perhaps. If it doesn't know, it will assume that they ar...
Make sure you set the staff group to not show barlines between vocal staves.
The only replies I've had are boilerplate "we remain committed to the platform"... But inaction speaks louder than words. It would be nice if they just fixed the version disparity between Wind...
Why did you even start this "discussion" into the choices that other people might make? Plenty of people have found good reasons to make the switch, so your "bottom line" that "there is no reason" ...
Every Finale customer can get the upgrade to Dorico; and you get a "free" Finale 27 thrown in! And yes, you can install different Finales on your PC at the same time.
A poll in the VI-Control forum has c. 60% moving to Dorico; 16% to MuseScore; 8% to Sibelius; and 10% staying with Finale until something breaks/dies. (Sample of 112.) There was already a flow of...
It won't hurt to try! It works for me, and several others have reported no problems.
Firstly, Finale works fine on Sequoia. MakeMusic just won't help you if there is a problem. Oh, so the fonts issue is on the old Mac? Well, the advice still stands. Reinstall the fonts.