(Some additions unveiled with Finale 2004 have vastly improved Finale in this regard.) Once you’ve learned the shortcuts, note entry is very fast, even without a MIDI keyboard.
In each, shortcuts for note entry are easy to learn - with letter keys for pitches and arrow keys for editing. Both Sibelius and Finale have extensive keyboard shortcuts that let you touch-type music without using a mouse. Musicians dream of a world in which entering musical scores into a notation program is as intuitive as typing into a Word document. Much of this either isn’t possible with the notation facilities built into programs such as Apple’s Logic and MOTU’s Digital Performer, or isn’t as easy.
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Finale offers a similar service, Showcase (for Web publishing, though you can’t use it to sell your scores for profit, and the necessary viewer software doesn’t yet support OS X. Sibelius even has a Web site (on which you can sell your score and get a cut of the profits (about 50 percent of the purchase price, with no overhead). You can also create an audio file of the playback (a feature new to both Sibelius and Finale), and share your score on the Internet with any Mac or PC user. You enter lyrics, standard chord symbols, guitar frames and tablature, and a drum part, which the programs will format into a professional-looking layout. Either program will let you share a hard copy of your latest tune with other people, so they can add vocals, guitar licks, and drum grooves. While Finale and Sibelius have been used by Academy Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning composers, the programs can be just as well suited to hobbyist musicians and elementary-school teachers and students. These programs are so evenly matched, most people will rely on personal tastes to choose one.
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Both feature guitar tablatures, avant-garde contemporary notations, percussion-specific symbols and staffs, and even notation you may not have heard of, such as the shape-note notation used in Early American church music and featured in the recent movie Cold Mountain. Choosing between the two isn’t simply a matter of determining what kind of notation you’re creating, because either can produce nearly anything you can imagine, from the common to the obscure. Market-leading rivals Sibelius 3.1, from Sibelius, and Finale 2004, from MakeMusic, remain the most full-featured, one-size-fits-all packages available for producing printed musical scores.
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