Dear Michael
Thanks a lot for your time and interest in the problems of my
synagogue.
I will pass onto Sam Levine, our Cantor, your comments on Music
programs.
since I am tone deaf until Sam mentioned the programs he was
going to use
with his laptop I did not know there were music programs, let alone
what they can do.
Again thanks a lot.
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[Avrom Fischer:]
>My synagogue is buying an Apple
iBookG4, model M9418LL/A laptop for our cantor
>at a cost of
$1299. One of the programs he is getting is something
called
>Sibelius which I understand is a music program. he may
also do some recording
>on it.
I can't
directly answer your questions myself; but if anyone is going to be
using
Sibelius seriously, they should join the Sibelius mailing list on
Yahoo
Groups, which can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sibelius-list href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sibelius-list.
From
what I've seen, many of the hundreds of members of the group are
very
knowledgeable about the software, and about the technical computer
issues
related to it. It does not officially represent Sibelius
Music, nor is it run
by them, but a representative from the company does
post there sometimes, and
answers people's
questions.
I suggest that your cantor join this
mailing list, and that he ask
questions about RAM there, before committing
expenditure this way or that.
If the choice of
music software is not already irreversibly decided, it's
also worth
remembering that there are a few other music programs worth
considering
using, and, depending on the type of musical use you want of a
program, one
or another of these may be most suitable.
Probably
Sibelius's main competitor is Finale, and there is a mailing list
for that,
too, at http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale href="http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale.
The people
there are very knowledgeable about their program, too, and if
you read through
previous archives for this list, you will find detailed
comparisons between
Sibelius and Finale.
The
choice of music notation software is a very complex decision, and not
to be
made in a hurry or without lots of research.
Of course your cantor may have good reasons for choosing Sibelius;
but,
knowing from personal investigation how difficult it can be to decide
upon music
software, I thought it worth mentioning Finale as a possible
choice.
I can't really go into lots of detail
here, but, in short, it appears that
Finale is probably far more powerful
and versatile than Sibelius - but it also
(perhaps inevitably) has a
steeper learning curve. Some Sibelius supporters
would disagree with
the first of these two points, though.
Sibelius's
user interface is commonly thought to be easier and more
intuitive than
Finale's - but, again, some may disagree with
that.
Regards,
Michael Edwards.
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