widest possible range of templates
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 7:38 pm
After all these years, I'm still stunned that Finale doesn't include professional templates for every conceivable scoring need.
The absence of such a common template as one for 2 piano 4 hand music is astonishing. Yes, you can choose 4 staves in setup wizard and mark them up for 2 pianos, but I refer to the professional publishing method of having facing pages for secondo and primo piano parts. The initial left and right pages must have the same grand staff indentation with Piano group name to the left of the staff. When composers, arrangers or copyists get ready to score, they want to be able to call up a template and get the music on the page - not spend endless hours creating templates, staff styles, etc. That is work that should have been done by makemusic a long time ago.
The absence of such a common template as one for 2 piano 4 hand music is astonishing. Yes, you can choose 4 staves in setup wizard and mark them up for 2 pianos, but I refer to the professional publishing method of having facing pages for secondo and primo piano parts. The initial left and right pages must have the same grand staff indentation with Piano group name to the left of the staff. When composers, arrangers or copyists get ready to score, they want to be able to call up a template and get the music on the page - not spend endless hours creating templates, staff styles, etc. That is work that should have been done by makemusic a long time ago.