One thing to consider unfortunately still is industry compatibility. Notice that there is close to no screenshots of UI on Avid / Sibelius site. I think you can trial Finale, Sibelius, so just do it. I may come back when version 5 hits in an unknown future. But outside of that it is extremely powerful, with great VST integrations and a DAW-like workflow, awesome note transformation features, super sweet note insertion, shortcuts for everything etc. Saying that Dorico is imo a new standard for notation except for default playback, because this one is crap. I trialed Finale and Sibelius before I chose Dorico - I started on Dorico 2, some time later 3 appeared so I upgraded, and when the best changes happened with 4 I sold it as I felt that I'm on a subscription and decided to focus on DAW. I think going Sibelius in 2022 is like forcing yourself to time traveling - the bad kind of time travelling though, you know, you end up in alternate version of 1989 where steam engines are still THE thing. Happy to answer any other questions you might have. We'll provide free support to you even if you're not on the latest version, and you will in any case be able to get super-fast help and support from our forum. If you buy a perpetual license, you still need to keep your "support plan" current on an annual basis unless you want to buy a costly "reinstatement" package when you later need to move up to the current version.ĭorico is simpler: buy the current version, receive free maintenance updates to that version, decide when you want to buy an update. If you don't have a perpetual license, if your subscription lapses, you lose all but read only access to your projects. Dorico's Setup mode provides you with many advantages in terms of being able to make large- and small-scale tweaks to your project, such as easily moving a doubling instrument to another player, re-ordering movements, creating multiple part and score layouts with different combinations of movements and players, and so on.Īnd Avid will these days try to push you very hard to take a subscription rather than buy a perpetual license, which may or may not be to your liking. Sibelius provides no project management features, and doesn't even handle works in multiple sections/movements within the same file particularly well. Sibelius still has the edge (for now) in areas like producing cut-away scores and faking various graphic notations, but these advantages are slender and it will be much easier for Dorico to close the gaps in this area than it will be for Sibelius to catch up in all of the areas in which it is currently deficient. Dorico also has a pretty sophisticated DTP-style system of frames and page templates, which Sibelius has nothing like. Dorico's rhythmic spacing is more refined, and its music looks better proportioned and balanced on the page by default. You get scores and parts out of Dorico that need almost no tweaking. The quality of Dorico's default output is also considerably superior to Sibelius. You'll need to proof-read less with parts produced in Dorico. Dorico's intelligent beat grouping ensures that the rhythm is always notated clearly, no matter what manipulations you put it through. your music, is streets ahead of Sibelius. In particular, Dorico's handling of rhythm, and the ways in which you can modify, rework, expand, contract, re-bar etc. In terms of note input and editing features, Sibelius is much more constraining than Dorico. Sibelius's Mixer is not as flexible as Dorico's, and Sibelius comes with no effects plug-ins nor really any meaningful way to use them. Sibelius has nothing comparable to Dorico's Key Editor. Where Dorico leaps past Sibelius in terms of playback is in areas such as support for other virtual instruments, MIDI editing capability, and use of effects. Sibelius's built-in sounds are more extensive than Dorico's, but I don't think this really amounts to Sibelius sounding any better than Dorico out of the box. NotePerformer is compatible with both applications and sounds pretty much the same in both (with a few notable exceptions, such as glissandos, which work in Sibelius but not yet in Dorico). In that area, I don't think Sibelius has anything to commend it above Dorico. I would guess that since you're a denizen of this forum, being able to achieve decent-sounding playback is reasonably important to you. Dorico's product manager here, so I'm certainly not impartial, though given that in the past I was also Sibelius's product manager, I'm pretty well-informed about the strengths and weaknesses of both applications.
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