Disklavier

wandamusic@... wrote:

>  
> 1) Making arrangements for a keyboard ensemble I direct. I am a novice 
> in Finale and find it takes an incredible amount of time for me to make 
> arrangements starting with a piano version. I figured I could play lines 
> into the piano and then put it into Finale. I also thought I could play 
> in string quartets, etc, to get more parts easily. Yes, I know I will 
> have to brush up on my alto and tenor clefs!!!  ;-)

I've baked off a few notation packages, Finale, Sibelius, Overture with
much the same ideas.   Frankly I'm not overly enamored with any of them.
Overture does the best job in auto scoring what I play on the piano.
The others have their strengths as well.   They all will drive multipart
MIDI for the piano itself and either your choice of software synths
(which some come with) or the XG tone generator in the Disklavier.

If you haven't purchased Finale yet, I suggest you download the free
trials of all of these packages and see which works best for you.