Songwriter files with Finale 2014
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2014 4:48 am
I am a church musician, singer, and composer, and I have been writing music using Songwriter 2012 on a Dell computer running Windows XP for about a year now. I LOVE the program, but I did run into a problem with the 8 staff limitation since I write for pipe organ, chorus, and orchestra.
I also was very impressed by the Garritan sound library, so I just purchased Finale 2014. I am extremely excited about getting full Finale! My disc should be here this Thursday!! I just had a couple of technical questions.
One is concerning the 'mus files that I have finished in Songwriter. Will I be able to open them in Finale, add to them, and change the instruments to the Garritan library, or should I plan on rewriting the pieces? I would like to add more staves and more instruments to the existing files if possible.
Also, will installing Finale 2014 affect my installation of Songwriter, or will it be a completely separate program? The two programs will be running on the same Dell computer running Windows XP.
Thank you for your time, and I am very excited to be getting Finale 2014!!
Carolyn
I also was very impressed by the Garritan sound library, so I just purchased Finale 2014. I am extremely excited about getting full Finale! My disc should be here this Thursday!! I just had a couple of technical questions.
One is concerning the 'mus files that I have finished in Songwriter. Will I be able to open them in Finale, add to them, and change the instruments to the Garritan library, or should I plan on rewriting the pieces? I would like to add more staves and more instruments to the existing files if possible.
Also, will installing Finale 2014 affect my installation of Songwriter, or will it be a completely separate program? The two programs will be running on the same Dell computer running Windows XP.
Thank you for your time, and I am very excited to be getting Finale 2014!!
Carolyn