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From: CONS.ELF@AIDA.CSD.UU.SE (Ake Eldberg)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Finale
Message-ID: <12680156095017@AIDA.CSD.UU.SE>
Date: 24 Apr 91 23:57:46 GMT
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Hi out there. My office has been looking for a music editor
for our IBM 386SX and it looks like Finale is the thing to
buy. The price of this software here in Sweden is $1,600
which is *pretty expensive*. I have heard that you can get
software considerably cheaper in the USA. Can anyone give
me a current price quotation?
I would also appreciate it if you know of a retail place
to buy it, preferably in the Los Angeles/Orange County 
area, since I'll probably be going there in august.
 
Someone mentioned CUbase and said that it is better than
Finale in some respects. I haven't seen this, and would
appreciate a comparative evaluation. What we want is a
programme that allows easy editing of music, mostly for
4-voice choirs but also for orchestra. Writing music by
playing it on a MIDI sythesizer is a nice feature. But
most important is an easy and fast editing system.
And it must be laser printer compatible.

Myself, I use a Macintosh and recently tried out Encore,
which is a similar application. But Finale looks better.

Ake Eldberg
cons.elf@aida.csd.uu.se