Do you use a scorewriter?

SSC,

I'm so glad you're here, so that I didn't have to torture myself looking through that book again to try and choose examples of its BS.

Fair enough. I'll bin the book.

I've used Finale for around 6 years and don't intend to stop there. From what I've seen of Sibelius on their website, the playback features are rather choppy for someone used to the smooth look of Finale. Tell me if I'm wrong. Moreover, it's becoming easier to create a professional-looking score with the updates that the makers of Finale have been adding recently.

It's helpful for my purposes, which involve writing music in sonata form, which necessarily involves much copying and pasting. Don't worry, I lengthen passages and insert twists the next time around, as if to say, "That's what I really meant to say in the first place."

I don't need to worry about using playback as a crutch because I can hear everything already in my head. Moreover, I only start writing things down once I've heard them a lot in my head. 10 times works well for the various themes of a sonata movement or that of a theme and variations movement.

Moreover, it helps with my particular method, which is writing out of order. I start from the ends and work inward. That's easy to do when you already know what form you're writing in.

I'm going to bring to the plate a revolutionary new way to write music.

Ready for this?

It's gonna blow your mind.

WITHOUT SHEET MUSIC!

Yes, some people really do it, and some people are very successful with it. I use a combination of Finale and sequencing with a keyboard and a MIDI sequencer, and for some compositions I don't use sheet music at all. But some people don't know how to read sheet music - either by repetition and teaching others by rote, or tabs, or some other form of communication - and still make great stuff. And there's nothing wrong with it.

P.S. I know it wasn't related to the current discussion, I just pointed out something relevant to the original topic.