Because there are Finale users who come to this thread, and knowing that Finale works with the latest versions of MacOs and Apple chips is valuable information. The thread IS called “Welcome thread for Finale Users”. (Bye now)
Yes - but this is a Dorico forum. I would have thought your observations would have more impact on the MakeMusic forum.
Thanks again @davide I have Finale 27, but I can’t use if for my Finale 25.5 files. They don’t translate well enough. I am planning to have Finale 27, Finale 25.5 and earlier versions on four Mac minis. That should hold me. I have “learned” Dorico and will use it for all future projects.
I have read mixed reviews of virtualization, @am74, so I haven’t really leaned in that direction.
I changed to a new Mac with an M4 chip
and the newest Sequoia os.
My Finale 27 installation does open, but for a very strange reason, my iPhone gives me a notice that it wants to be used by Finale as a microphone. I have never seen this with any application so far. What is happening?
I declined and got a message that I would need to connect the iPhone with a cable to the computer to get this microphone function again.
Exactly. And there have been boatloads of posts on both Finale forums about virtualization and whether or not it will be useful long-term. The preponderance of the posts were not encouraging re: VM and that’s why I decided not to do it.
I guess you’re blessed. There was another person (that person used a PC) who kept insisting on both Finale forums that he never ever had any problems with Finale. In the end, that’s irrelevant. It minimizes the experience of a lot of us with Finale and makes it sound as if it’s our fault that something wasn’t working correctly. That’s like saying “I haven’t been sick a day in my life” to a patient with a malignancy.
And having used Finale for 32-33 years and no other notation software until switching to Dorico in September, I’m not seeing anything yet that I could have done in Finale that I couldn’t do in Dorico. The one exception being the JW Rhythm Copy plugin, and that’s a plugin, not Finale proper. And similar functionality is there in Dorico; I just think there are a few advantages to that plugin. So that’s it; one plugin that I occasionally miss but can work around. On the other hand, there are many things I can do in Dorico much more easily than in Finale. And I don’t need an expensive .lua script to enhance layout; Dorico does it pretty well automatically.
So please be specific: what can’t you do in Dorico that you could have done with Finale? Or is it merely a matter of “this new software is going to take some time to learn, so easier to find fault with it than try to work with it?” It took me maybe a month to get reasonably comfortable with Dorico vs a year with Finale, mainly since I was already familiar with Finale and Dorico is not so different as to make it a totally new experience.
Even if your version of Finale continues to work forever (unlikely), eventually you will run up against the lack of development by MakeMusic, which is already 1-2 years and running.
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Well, if davide was trolling for attention, I guess he got what he wanted.
Sad, very sad.
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I have been using Sibelius for some days, it left me with a good impression, although it appears outdated.
I hope its lineage is perpetuated, and not interrupted just for some stupid fears of some corporate manager.
It’s clearly over-priced but its simplicity of UX is what I need, it has a simple caret system and effective functioning with no glitches or crashes at all (compared with the very same use of Dorico).
On the contrary Dorico’s UX is inherently flawed.
Now I can use Musescore for free, I have a Dorico Elements license (I was scammed but I move on and maybe I will sometimes use it), it wouldl be nice to also have Sibelius, that probably would be my choice if rejuvenated, at a lower price.
No software is going to be “the one”, please grow up here, surely not the flawed one.
Best regards
No, you were not scammed. Don’t pretend you were.
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Right… I started this thread in order to help people coming over from Finale, with how to use Dorico.
If your post is not about helping Finale users to use Dorico, then you can put it somewhere else. Thank you.
Everyone else: I remind you of the forum’s function to Ignore certain users.
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Ben,
Whoops! My reference to the “OP” was clearly not what I intended. Funny how a troll can grab attention.
This feature has been getting a workout recently …
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@am74 A carefully made design decision with which one disagrees does not make it a fault.
Strikes me that the only fault, if any, is with the person who buys a product without taking advantage of the free trial to ensure that it meets their needs.
And before anyone accuses me of victim shaming, which scumball scammers out there offer 60 days to see whether their scam meets your need?
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I not want to deal with this topic more than necessary, but it is blatantly evident that a software would serve the user, not the contrary.
One busy person could argue “Do you know how much my time is worth? I cannot lose my time reading documentation, watching videos, asking for help on a fanboys-in-denial forum to accomplish the most basic things, realize that there are several odd crazy functions to deal with, and a lot of customizations that are mandatory yet useless to the average person, especially when the user cannot easily perform basic tasks in a straighforward way, and then repenting wasting the trial period instead of losing other time evaluating the product so not to buy it out of hurry, hope and trust in a good firm, and so on”. Now I think you understand what kind of faults are at stake.
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Is that why you never answer my calls anymore, @FredGUnn? 
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