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Hello,

Is there any Finale reference or guide book available, beside
that thick manual comes along within the package ?

Book title, author, publisher, and ISBN et cetra infos are 
deeply appreciated.

Thank you in advance,
Nok (Tokyo/Japan)

    I have not seen one, and I think if there was one there'd be a good
    chance I'd have seen it. 
    
    I'm surprised because I have seen "3rd party manuals" for all of the
    major sequencers but not the notation programs, and I've heard that
    Finale is VERY hard to learn.   
    
    Finale is the "standard" and most publishing companies will accept ONLY
    Finale format files, but I elected to go with Passport Design's Encore
    because it was much cheaper and had the opposite reputation (extremely
    easy to use, which has been my experience).
    
    	db

RE: #142.113 ;

Thank you for your reply, db-san.

>    I'm surprised because I have seen "3rd party manuals" for all of the
>    major sequencers but not the notation programs, and I've heard that
>    Finale is VERY hard to learn.   

I agree in hundred percent that Finale is VERY (in uppercase!) difficult
to learn.  Its "unique" interface (not Mac-like, nor Win-like) is making
the matter worse, I think.

Once I tried to use Encore, but I decided to choose Finale, and that was 
halfly correct for my DTP usage, but not satisfactory for my music works.
I should have selected Encore or Engraver... (Not sure Engraver is still
available these days, though.)   I once used Mark of the Unicorn's new 
notation program (former name was Notation Composer,or something like that..) 
and that was okay, but I don't hear much about the "good or bad" review on 
this software (Not much users?) .

Anyway, I am still waiting for informations.

Thank you,
Nok (Tokyo/Japan)

    
	    My wife just picked up Finale V3.7.2 for doing her UNH college 
    works on, and yes, we both sit there going through the books.... our 
    edition has a total of "5" manuals, with the best reference being the
    "encyclopedia" or the tutorial.... also now with V3.7.2 is a "Read Me
    First" Book! This book has all the changes made in this new edition
    that the older editions do not have..... We also have Cakewalk V5.0
    Home Studio which is okay, but not for the degree of work my wife is
    doing in college.

    	For a reference book, Finale has a notes forum that you may want to
    ask for references, etc... this forum has answered many questions for
    me! Try it at:

    		www.codamusic.com
    
    Good luck & read, read, read the books! 
    	Tom Skabo

    I don't think Finale is *that* hard to learn.  When I was first
    learning it, I called the support line quite a few times.  But then on
    one call, the support guy asked if I had done the tutorials.  I hadn't,
    and he suggested that if I did, I would probably find most of my
    questions being answered in the process; he was right.
    
    There are some things they could do to make it faster for me to
    use.  The version I have is totally committed to the task of removing
    courtesy accidentals I've put in when it updates almost anything else.
    Since most of the music I notate is 12-tone or at least uses something
    approaching total pitch variety, this is a serious pain in the neck for
    me.  I also haven't plumbed the mystery of what the relationship might
    be between the numbers you use to set size and shape defaults for ties
    and the numbers you use to fix them after the fact, so I spend a lot of
    time fixing ties.
    
    Paul