I find that to be my favorite entry method, and I speed right along at it. If you're not terribly good on your midi instrument - for instance, a keyboard, and I suck on it - you can play a note on the instrument for pitch and use the other hand on your computer keyboard to input the duration. There are several different methods for note entry if you have a midi instrument, you can just play right into the thing. I haven't used Sibelius, so I can't compare that way. I've used Finale since '93, across several different versions, and I find it a very powerful tool.Oh, and I don't use a piano-keyboard or a mouse to input the notes I use the computer keyboard and mouse together, and that, with the wonderful copy/paste command, gets me through a lot of music rather quickly. At least they imported at all! But the slurs came out as straight lines, and the dynamics didn't show up at all.
I'm still having a heck of a time fixing up my Finale imports (older files I moved to Sibelius).
I can also export my files as MIDI if I want and then bring them into a program like Audacity or iTunes and burn them on a CD. It just has a sleek-er, I guess professional, feel about it, and the pages really do look nice. I definitely need (still) to use the ginormous manual to fine tune some little details.Īll that said, I think I do prefer Sibelius overall. If I recall correctly, I think Finale had better keyboard-command shortcuts, and Sibelius has menus. I also found that adjusting the spacing around either notes or staves, and inputing notes in different layers, to be slightly more challenging in Sibelius than Finale, but these things get easier with practice. This is what I've found to be different: I like the general look of its style of the document better than Finale "comp"-ing parts (with the four hash marks through the staff) is not a pre-set staff-style however in Sibelius, and much more troublesome to input also, in regard to such hash marks, Finale allowed me to input invisible chords behind the hashes so that those chords could be heard during playback - Sibelius doesn't allow this. Then I had to switch over to Sibelius (it, with my new computer, was a gift from my family). I used it successfully for, er, maybe 3 years or so. I started out with Finale, and figured out how to use it without the aid of a manual (maybe I'm just a nerd).
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