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#Finale notepad limitations full version

I can do all the things you are frustrated by quickly and easily on the full version of Finale. With the free version, you can punch up a single page of something fairly simple. The responder who commented on the limitations of free versions is quite correct this is a for-profit company putting out a limited sample to encourage people to buy. We want to use SmartMusic, which attaches to Finale, so there has been debate over trying for funding for both, or just keeping Finale.

#Finale notepad limitations how to

Those of us who make regular use of Finale don't have trouble using it, because we don't forget the details of how to find and do things. There were many things about Sibelius that seemed more intuitive, though we have been told it takes a while to really learn Sibelius. My colleagues and I went to presentations on both Finale and Sibelius.

#Finale notepad limitations software

Does anyone have experience with this or other similar software packages? There are cheap scorewriters, such as Melody Assistant, which costs about $30. I don't want to gamble with that much money. There is a student grade Sibelius, which sells for about $90. There is an academic version of Sibelius, but it's about $400, which I can't afford. Sibelius seems to be the gold standard, and it's outrageously, prohibitively expensive. I have done a free trial of other Finale products, and they have the same problems. In fact, I always disable it because it sounds like a computer, not like music.įinale Notepad is free. If you make certain revisions on the staff, your marks which go above or below the staff (slurs, for example) shift out of place.ĩ. The number often ends up some place where you really don't want it, i.e., on the staff, where it's illegible.Ĩ. You have to draw a horizontal line draw a vertical line and then write in a number. The mechanism for writing first and second endings is awkward at best. Sometimes I can get the triplets to work, and sometimes I can't.ħ. I've written out bowing exercises in G major, for example, and I'm up the creek with regard to the title when I transpose them to D major.Ħ. You can't write a double stop with the same note twice (unison), such as E on the A string with open E.ĥ. Also, if you want to slur the last note of one measure with the first note of the next measure, and the line breaks in the middle of your slur, you're out of luck.Ĥ. Many pieces are written in a format like aabb, and I'd like to be able to start the b part on a fresh line. You can't control the number of measures per line of manuscript. You have to start a new document each time you change the key or the tempo.Ģ. You can't change the key signature or tempo in the middle of a piece.

I'm so fed up with Finale Notepad! Here are my gripes:ġ.Pauline Lerner Finale and other scorewriters