Can a program be downloaded to a thumbdrive?
I ask, because Finale is being discontinued. I will be in need of a new computer in a year or two and don't want to lose the program.
@BlueStateBabe ach, condolences. I agree with @BenA that your best bet would be to try and find the install program. On windows that will frequently have an .msi file extension.
No clue if it's really comparable, but FWIW, this here nominates something called MuseScore as an open-source alternative to finale:
It took me so long to learn Finale fluently. Having to find all the new ways to do things will make composing on computer pure drudgery for quite a long time. Looking for a way to postpone the inevitable, I suppose.
I think Musescore was included with the online component of a music theory text I had 7 years ago. Thanks for reminding me.
Current Finale users can buy Dorico Pro for $150, and I don't know if it is worthwhile or just another headache and waste of
$$$.
@BlueStateBabe @BenA heh--no doubt.
I suppose you could install musescore & just noodle around on it for a bit. Maybe it's got a "use the finale shortcut keys" mode or something? That'd just cost you the time...
@BlueStateBabe (and for the record, I still believe that the idea that it's possible to write music down on paper is an elaborate hoax, and commend you on your commitment to the bit)
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@rpardee Hahahaha.
My handwriting is illegibile. Apply that to a teeny tiny set of 5 lines, and even I can't figure out what I wrote - lol!
Seriously, I kept a stack of maximally enlarged staff paper while a student, so that I could do the tests in a way which produced something both the teacher and myself could decipher.
@BlueStateBabe (My DW and both daughters are all musicians, and this is a position I adopt in order to spin them all up.
But seriously--anything I can't do must be a hoax.)