re: Finale, Software That Typeset The Music of Broadway For Decades, Shuts Down
Posted by: Chromolume 08:17 pm EDT 08/26/24
In reply to: re: Finale, Software That Typeset The Music of Broadway For Decades, Shuts Down - sirpupnyc 07:56 pm EDT 08/26/24

I still use it. All the time. I've been on Finale a bunch of times today to do quick fixes for an orchestra reduction of a show I'm putting together.

I'm very sad about this, very frustrated. It will be a pain in the ass to learn Dorico from scratch now, but ok, I'll do it. I learned Finale on the fly (creating an orchestration for a show), I can learn another system on the fly. The problem I see in the future is that currently there's no way to convert/import Finale (.mus) documents into other software, so the many Finale files I come back to time after time to revise will have to be recreated from scratch. (For instance, transpositions of songs for clients/students, something I deal with all the time.) This won't literally be until my current computer goes belly up (as long as I stay on Windows 11), but it eventually will.

As some esteemed composer/lyricist once wrote:
"The blossom falls on the mountain,
the mountain falls on the blossom,
all things fall."
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