I know notat.io is more directed towards professional engravers, who have very compelling reasons to invest money into their software, and that's perfectly fine.
#FINALE VS SIBELIUS SOFTWARE#
When this is the case, one is more prone to pay a professional to do such notation, rather than buying software to do any one-off job. Many of my students won't ever have the need to do more complex stuff to the point of worrying about their software. The thing is that for most tasks, Musescore does a fine job.
Even more striking: teachers (myself included) usually do the same.
#FINALE VS SIBELIUS LICENSE#
I have never, in many years, seen a single student who has bought any type of license to use any music notation software: they all resort either to Musescore or (frequently) to piracy.
#FINALE VS SIBELIUS FULL#
I work full-time as a music teacher, and either Dorico or Finale, in their full versions (and Sibelius' perpetual license, too), would cost approximately two months of my full wage. I live in a third-world country, so my context is wildly different. What software are your students using? Does anyone else also see a fairly sudden shift toward MuseScore? Any thoughts on how this might change the future of notation products in the near future? Just curious if anyone else has seen this fairly sudden shift in the education market as well. I'm curious how any of those 3 are planning to reach an education market that seems to be moving fairly suddenly to MuseScore. Development of Finale and Sibelius seems to have slowed substantially, but Dorico is quite actively still in development and of course that takes money. If fee-based notation programs are losing the education market, then the next generation of musicians coming out of school seem unlikely to be interested in paying for software when they are already familiar with a free program.
I had brought in a pretty complicated piano transcription I had done in Dorico for analysis, and all were pretty amazed when I told them I had done no layout or spacing edits at all other than a little bit of casting off to make rehearsal letters begin systems. Why pay for a notation program when you can get one for free? None had even heard of Dorico, so I gave them the whole Sibelius - Avid - Steinberg story. This is a very small sample size obviously, but students are more likely to use what their peers are using, and none were using Finale. Just a few years ago, I would have expected the breakdown to have been split between Finale and Sibelius, perhaps slightly favoring Finale (in Northeast USA anyway). All students were Juniors or Seniors and are Jazz majors intending to have a career in music. Out of 10 students in the class, 8 used MuseScore, 1 used Sibelius, and 1 was pencil/paper. For those of you that teach at universities, what notation software are most of your students using? One of my undergrad classes got sidetracked on to the topic of notation yesterday and I was pretty surprised at how the notation landscape has shifted in just a few years.
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