Yamaha CS80

I also doubt campaign has any chance, because its target is not quite  
clear and because nobody at firm will listen to customers. But we can  
just try it, that's all.

Yes, of course there's Finale, Score, Capella, Notion, LilyPond,  
MuseScore, Rosegarden, name some others... Sibelius is not perfect,  
and I don't think it's a good idea to try to connect standard music  
notation editor with live playback (it's too much incompatible ways of  
representing music), and lot of important features was still missing  
in Sibelius (microtonality, polymetrics, polytempo, Japanese  
instruments tablatures...) but never mind, it was fast and easy to use.

And all that competition on the market helped to develop the other  
software as well. Even Finale could benefit from Sibelius features and  
ideas and at least to be inspired.

And let's not forget please that next one to kill can be Finale...

I don't think there's a small market for score editor - such software  
is used not only by composers or arrangers but in music education,  
score publishing houses...

And such software like Sibelius was developed exactly to avoid slow  
and painful text input :-)

Daniel Forro


On Aug 4, 2012, at 10:44 AM, David Rogoff wrote:

> 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 :)