Klarinet Archive - Posting 000289.txt from 2001/01

From: Shouryunus Sarcasticii <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music Programs for PC??
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:27:10 -0500

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, ikebders wrote:

> I am interested in the various music programs out there. I have heard that
> Sibelius is a really good one for PC. Any comments? What else is there? How
> do you rank them?

For your simplistic endeavors, you won't need to spend a lot of money; you
can purchase programs like Encore/MusicTime and Noteworthy Composer fairly
inexpensively. You can also do plenty with them, but they do have
limitations. I used Noteworthy Composer for about two years (although my
roommate has MusicTime - I simply find the keyboard entry system more
efficient than click here, click there, click here, click there...) for a
lot of things. My Orchestration professor was quite impressed with what I
did with it, and recently I had been using it to write and arrange tunes
for my nine piece jazz combo. For the most part, it worked wonderfully.

However, in November, my roommate finally convinced me to start using
Finale 2000. WOW! What a program! It's remarkably easy to use, and is
VERY professional...even to the point where you can basically publish your
own music! It's THAT good! Of course...it's THAT good...it's also THAT
expensive. There is a condensed version you can buy for about 1/3 of the
normal price called Finale Allegro. It's basically Finale minus a lot of
the more complex functions, and the files port over to the standard
Finale.

As for Sibelius...I don't know much of it. From what I understand, it's
supposed to be really good...I've also heard that it's the European
equivelant of Finale, which leads one to believe that in Europe, Sibelius
is the dominant notation software, whereas in North America, Finale is
dominant. I do not know for certain myself, but I've seen more talk on
the list about Finale than Sibelius (and the list is predominantly North
American), and I've never met anyone personally who uses Sibelius anywhere
in my state or its neighbors. *shrugs*

J. Shouryu Nohe
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
"Never put passion before principle. Even when win, you lose."
-Miyagi-san, KKpt.II

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