Want to double the line in thirds? Just press 3. Want to perform a diatonic transposition? Just press the up or down arrow. Want to repeat the whole measure? Just press R. Like, if you click and highlight a measure (or a portion of a measure), you can do a whole bunch of things to it with just a click of a single button. It'll put it in the closest octave to the the precious pitch, then you can adjust octaves by ctr + arrow.ДЈ.) Sibelius has a lot of really easy input options that I like over Finale. In Sibelius, you start by pressing N, then you select a note value via the num pad, then you press a pitch name via the keyboard. In Sibelius, it's all about selecting the notes and changing attributes assigned to it, whereas finale is all about a bunch of different objects that you sorta glue together.Дў.) Note input via the computer keyboard is the big adjustment I had to make. But in Sibelius, you just select the note and toggle the staccato button to off. To delete it in finale, you select the articulation tool, select the little handle of the articulation, then press delete. In Sibelius, you select the note first and you toggle the 'staccato' button to 'on' (for more advanced articulations, you use your num pad to go to the page with all the articulations). So like, if you want an accent in Finale, you select the articulation tool, you aim your mouse at the note you want, you click, and uou select the articulation you want. Likewise, articulation markings are more like 'attributes' you lay into individual notes rather than like objects you drag around like in Finale. Here's my experience.ДЎ.) Whereas expression marks in finale are treated as like objects, Sibelius treats them as text that you just type into the score.

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