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Supposedly, didnвЂ™t really notice when I was using the demo. Supposedly itвЂ™s all Cocoa on the Mac, meaning the UI looks more Mac-like now.

Yes, there are some other вЂњnewвЂќ features. And the stupid program can finallyвЂ¦.or FinaleвЂ¦.no no, finallyвЂ¦.save to older versions and future versions of Finale wonвЂ™t have to convert files to the вЂњnewвЂќ format every time they are opened. ItвЂ™s easy to do a keyless score now, and when you do crescendos and stuff, it will smartly adjust the size of them. Those are basically the new/interesting things in Finale 2014. Anchored Hairpins and Measure-attached Smartshapes.Export To Finale 2012 and new File Format (which shouldnвЂ™t change in future versions of Finale).IвЂ™ll bullet point what I think are interesting features and list some big reasons NOT to update. Luckily, Jari Williamsson has an excellent review of what is new.

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It is REALLY hard to tell what the new stuff is or why you should update to it. Now, they have just released Finale 2014. It works, but it has issues like all software. So we went about 2 years with Finale 2012. Meanwhile, MakeMusic got bought and the new owners pledged to continue making Finale, but not at itвЂ™s regular yearly update cycle. The future of Sibelius is sort of up in the air as they sacked their great development team due to Avid, the parent company, having issues (they also sold off the M-Audio line of products at the same time).

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SmartScore Pro (music-scanning and music-scoring.There are two BIG players in the music notation field.

Overture plus lite version Score Writer.

Logic Pro, Logic Express (successor to Notator and Notator Logic).

Finale notation program, plus lite versions: Finale Notepad, Notepad Plus, Songwriter, PrintMusic, Allegro.

Emagic, makers of Notator (bought by Apple in 2002 Windows version no longer developed or supported).

Cubase V4-9.5 (second run of version numbers).

Cubase Score V1-5 (first run of version numbers).

Sibelius, plus lite versions Sibelius First, Sibelius Student, Sibelius Instrument Teacher Edition, G7.

Lite versions: SmartScore Songbook, MIDI, Piano and Guitar Editions)

SmartScore Pro (music scanning and scorewriting.

SCORE, one of the earliest scorewriters to be used for commercial publishing, now abandoned.

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ScoreCloud вЂ“ Audio, manual or MIDI input analysis to musical notation, and editor.

Overture, plus lite version Score Writer.

Musink Lite, a WYSIWYM scorewriter and publication tool for Windows.

Music Construction Set (obsolete was also for Apple II, Atari 400, and Commodore 64).

MusicEase, notates standard music, shaped notes and tablature transposes and imports abc music.

MagicScore, plus Music Notation for MS Word and lite version MagicScore School and free versions MagicScore onLine and MagicScore Note.

Guitar Pro (primarily for guitars and bands, but also notates other instruments including drums).

Finale plus the following lite versions: Allegro, PrintMusic, NotePad, Songwriter.

Cubase V4-9.5 (second run on version numbers).

Cubase Score V1-5 (first run on version numbers).

Philip's Music Writer, a text-based scorewriter originally written for Acorn RISC OS (released as a commercial program in the 1990s), later ported to POSIX and licensed under the GNU GPL.

MusiXTeX, a set of macros and fonts that allow music typesetting in TeX.

MuseScore, a WYSIWYG scorewriter for Linux, Windows, and OS X.

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LilyPond, a text-based scorewriter with several backends including PS, PDF and SVG.

Impro-Visor, a GUI- and text-based scorewriter for constructing lead sheets and jazz solos on Linux, OS X, and Windows.

Frescobaldi, a GUI front-end for LilyPond.

Denemo, a scorewriter primarily providing a front-end for LilyPond.