Finale music notation software discontinued; devs embrace Dorico

https://cdm.link/2024/08/finale-music-notation-software-discontinued-devs-embrace-dorico/

by robenkleene • 2 years ago

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wwweston• 2 years ago

The embrace of Dorico is really interesting; at a guess, that seems to me less like a typical product strategy move and more like an engineering team that really cared about the product domain recognizing retirement needs among their codebase and/or team.

Tokkemon2• 2 years ago

Busy day in this niche industry!

smulloni• 2 years ago

What else happened?

Tokkemon2• 2 years ago

It's just that there's thousands of Finale users who were caught by surprise here, and they are up in arms.

I work for one of their competitors, Sibelius, so I have to be on top of it.

Rochus• 2 years ago

A good opportunity to open-source it?

frost_knight• 2 years ago

I've been using Finale since 1994, and am sad.

I'm willing to give Dorico a shot, but that's a lot of years of muscle memory to re-train unless it can be configured to use the same keyboard shortcuts.

Finale music notation software discontinued; devs embrace Dorico

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