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If for whatever reason it can’t register that your subscription is up to date, it won’t even allow you to open Sibelius.

The two main issues as far as I see it are Sibelius’ horrible user interface which was redesigned for version 7 based on MS Office and its ubiquitous ‘ribbon’, and the Avid Link application you have to have installed on your machine for Sibelius to run through. The current (full-featured, latest) iteration of Sibelius continues to be powerful but with a number of drawbacks that continue to receive heat in online forums.

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I can comment more on Sibelius as it’s the software I use, having only tinkered with Finale a few times maybe two decades ago. Both have the benefits and drawbacks that come with being long-time products: they have the greatest number of features for any possible use case in notation, but decades of legacy code mean they inevitably look and feel clunky in places, and any necessary updates to the software tend to come in bite size amounts as the team continues to try to work with legacy code. Sibelius also offers a subscription-based model which can also work with educational discount.

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Both still have large price-tags, but with upgrade and academic discounts all available. Like most sporting figures, it seems like one or two times they have dropped the ball, and in one case have been transferred overseas to another team (more on that later). Sibelius and Finale – the big two?įor PC and Mac, Sibelius and Finale are still the major ‘seasoned’ players. I’ve had quite a few questions and discussions with other musicians over the last year or two on this subject, musicians who like me hadn’t really kept up with the game, so I thought I’d try to distill what I’ve discovered as I’ve ‘re-entered’ this space over the last year or two. Technology and software purchase options have developed, too.

Computing has changed – there are options for tablets as well as PCs/Macs out there.

Sibelius and Finale are no longer the only players in the game.

In 2021 though, it’s worth getting up to speed.

And if you’re like me, keeping up with the updates was a fiscal matter as well as a technological one most of us didn’t tend to bother if what we had ‘worked for us’, and besides, we probably couldn’t afford it. The fact is, there was a time when you bought one of these two products, digging deep to try to fork out for one of them from your slim musician’s budget. Are you a musician who sometimes needs to created notated music on a computer, but you feel like you haven’t kept up with what’s the latest out there? Are you still using Sibelius 5, or a copy of Finale you bought when you were a student a couple of decades ago? I’d imagine it’s beginning to creak on whatever machine it’s managing to run on.

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