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I was surprised to receive notification that Finale was packing it in. I had upgraded to v27 when I got a new PC awhile back, thinking I would force myself to plow through all of the arbitrary counterintuitive convolutions and get good enough at it to have producing my scores be an expedient and, if not painless, a relatively tolerable procedure. But I kept returning to my venerable Encore 4.5.5 to produce my lead sheets, with all its little quirks/bugs (including some new ones when running it on windows 11), as it was overall reliable, mostly logical and very speedy (compared to Finale). As many of you know, Finale is pushing its users to switch over to Dorico – of which I know nothing. I’m just thinking how great it would be if the gentleman who has been working on the new version of Encore would choose this moment to announce that the release of a reborn Encore was truly impending. And an excellent business decision for him too. What better time than when Finale is casting many of us aside? Anyone out there using Dorico and loving it?
With my new computer, I just upgraded to Finale 27, so am still adjusting to it. It has already got in my way a few times, which I expected. I agree with your take that it is good for heavy lifting. I just wish it was designed with a more intuitive work flow. If Encore 6.0 does come out I will certainly look at it. 4.5.5 is pretty comfy for me, so it’ll have to be a big improvement a pay yet another upgrade fee to Encore. I love your 3 monitor setup idea btw, brilliant!
