GVOX, Finale and Sibelius Switch War, Music Software Options

[_news_]

Comments about:

GVOX, Finale and Sibelius Switch War

[peterkirn]

Thanks for your thoughts! I know there are many, many faithful Encore users so I expected to get some response from them. I wonder, though, is Encore really easier to use than Sibelius? I used Encore years ago, and do recall it was easy to learn, but I have found (any many others have found) Sibelius quite easy to pick up. I regularly teach the software, too, so I'm grateful that it is easy to learn Sibelius because I'm often dealing with extreme newbies.

Iit seems if you're going to pay full price for a program, unless you're already invested in the Encore way of doing things (and even possibly if you are), you're more likely to look at Sibelius or Finale. Either is more full-functioned than Encore in my testing: and that's not just bells and whistles, that's how well the notation, automatic formatting, and automatic layout work. The idea of switching TO Encore from Sibelius or Finale just doesn't make any sense to me -- although, if I had a backlog of Encore files, as many people do, I would JUMP at this offer to run Encore side by side with either of the other programs.

Of course, if you are already using Encore, I think you'll really appreciate what GVOX has done to bring it into the 21st Century and out of temporary obscurity. You won't need the switch offer, per se, but you'll be happy to continue what you're using.