Customer Reviews
Great all around composing tool
I have been a Sibelius user for several years, and find it a very useful tool for composition and classroom instruction. The relatively new feature of being able to quickly save your composition as a WAV file makes it easy to give students take home practice CDs (using sampled sounds not midi tone). ^M
Excellent new version
Notation software seems to be one of those things where there are two main players, like Microsoft and Apple or PhotoShop and Quark. Sibelius and Finale are the big two here. I've used both (for my own writing and for part-time teaching), but for the last couple of years I've pretty just used Sibelius, and got the Sibelius 4 upgrade in December.^M
Comparison with Finale
I'm a Finale user who was tempted by Sibelius's competitive upgrade offer. After playing around with Sibelius 4 versus Finale 2006, I can offer some observations. As an initial one, both programs are excellent and neither has serious flaws.^M
