Originally Posted by Mike Halloran
It all depends. I find AI to be more helpful than the Finale manual and a lot faster—except when it is wrong and that is frequently. It doesn’t know the difference between features introduced in 27 and those discontinued in 2014. So, I have two tabs open on a side monitor—one with the manual and the other showing AI. The last Finale print manual had over 4,000 pages (2004 IIRC) on 500+ sheets of paper printed 4 pages per side—absolutely useless.

BIAB is not nearly as complex and I have no problem searching the documentation on those rare occasions when I have a question.

Hi Mike
I’ve been working on the exact same problem. I loaded a ~4,000-page Merck Manual (Medical) locally and built a small system around it so the AI answers strictly from that material. No GPU required — this runs fine on a normal computer. The key is structuring the data and using retrieval (RAG), not raw model size. If you can run Python and have enough RAM, you can do this. This will not fix 100% of the issues, but it will fix most. I assume P G Music has done the same for the AI on their website.

Cheers,

Billy

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