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Re: [yamahacs80] Re: OT Sibelius

2012-08-04 by David Rogoff

Just looked into this. Blah.  I don't use this, but I have composer 
friends who do. I don't know if any boycott or campaign has a chance of 
bringing back development or getting Avid to sell the program.  I guess 
it's keep running it until it doesn't work anymore and hope Finale is 
still around then!

This kind of software is incredibly difficult to write, has a fairly 
small market, and users who want it to be easy and fast since they're 
probably under huge time pressure.  Many years ago (1986?) I was helping 
to convert a hand-written orchestra score into parts using the 
Synclavier's Music Printing software.  The basic info was entered as 
text and then displayed on a VT100 text terminal with a special graphics 
card.  No mouse - just arrow keys.  It was very slow and very painful.  
I think I did about 30 measures before I quit :)

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