Hopefully you can find someone who uses both programs. When Finale only has a very small window, it doesn't need much CPU/GPU power for redrawing during the plugin processing.By joining our community you will have access to post topics, upload content and access many other features. The plugin is about 15-25% slower (!), if Finale runs in standard fullscreen mode compared to minimized. There is another interesting observation: (BTW, Fin25 also performs in exactly 7,1 seconds on this computer!) Windows Vista, Laptop (2009, 3 GB, 2,5 GHz, P9500, AMD Radeon 3400):įinale 2014.5 JW Lua plugin processing time: 16,8 seconds
These are the times to process the score and the parts of the Perfect Layout demo ( from. Here are benchmark values and Finale 2014.5 plugin processing times from three different Windows installations. If you run a benchmark test (like the free one from ), you can probably judge Finale's performance from just looking at the single-threaded benchmark. But I assume that this doesn't influence the workflow so much.
Probably it also depends a bit on the graphics chip, e.g. It means Finale doesn't take advantage of the new multi-processor developments from the last 10 years (as for example image or video processing software does), but only gets faster with higher CPU speeds (=GHz) or improvements of the CPU internals. Stupid question, but running Finale on Windows is not an option for you?Īnd there is one thing one may not forget: Finale is single-threaded. I would probably start with an xml-file of one of your more challenging works, and testing the waters one important feature at a time to see if you can live with the results and the workflow. You will indeed lose some flexibility with Sibelius, and certain parts of the interface will most probably be frustrating in the beginning, but it will surely be better than dealing with a constantly spinning beach ball or lagging interface. I then switched back when Finale 2007 was released. I did this a number of years ago, following some incredibly frustrating few months dealing with the disaster called Finale 2004. Moving to Sibelius is certainly a viable option if all else fails. I would firstly contact MakeMusic to hear if they can shed som light on potential conflicts on both the software and hardware sides or offer any other sort of help. Aside from experimenting with alterations of your system to root out any problem sources, it's difficult to give good recommendations on how to proceed. I'm sorry to hear that upgrading to Finale 25 hasn't remedied your speed issues.
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