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| Posted By : FlashGordon - 3/25/2013 5:48 PM | | I'm new to this forum but I'm hoping a few of you out there will help me with your opinions on this important decision. My lady and I are part time musicians. She plays piano and I flute (and saxophone). We play only original music that we compose or co-write with others. Often we each come up with parts that it would be helpful to have sheet music for to give to other members of the group (that read). I had a bootleg Finale program years ago and loved the fact that with the Micnotator I could usually have a decent record of the notes I played. I still use a Cakewalk program for recording MIDI piano that she plays but I want a program that does both, easily. Am I looking for Finale 2012 or (for someone who is not trying to make scores for orchestras) is Finale Print Music going to suffice. Please help as I don't want to spend unnecessary funds at this point of my musical career. |
| Posted By : Peter Thomsen - 6/10/2013 5:28 AM | FlashGordon,
PrintMusic is basically Finale without some of its advanced features, i. e. the two programs have the same document format (= .mus), and the tools they have in common, work in the same way.
If I were you, I would take a look at the PrintMusic demo.
If you buy PrintMusic - and later find out, that PrintMusic is too limited for you, then you can upgrade to the "full Finale".
In case you later decide to upgrade from PrintMusic to Finale, you will find that
- you have not wasted your documents; Finale can open your PrintMusic .mus documents,
- you have not wasted your time; in Finale you can use what you have learned in PrintMusic,
- you have not wasted your money; as a PrintMusic user you can get an upgrade offer, and buy Finale for less than the full price.
Peter
Mac Finale, 2011c & 2012c, Dolet 6 plug-in, Mac OS X 10.7.5, iMac Intel Core i7, 2.93 GHz, 16 GB RAM |
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