Klarinet Archive - Posting 000512.txt from 2005/03

From: Curtis Bennett <curtis.bennett@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] music notation software (rather OT)
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:27:30 -0500

If you want serious music notation software, I recommend Sibelius.
It's professional grade stuff. It's easy to use, and can do absolutely
anything musically that you want to do. Modern music, renaissance
music, you name it. I used to use an old version of Cakewalk, and got
frustrated because I couldn't do any tuple other than a triplet.
Sibelius will let me do any tuplet I want, even tuplets within
tuplets, which is weird, I admit, but it just shows you how powerful
and flexible it is. It's not cheap though. The software runs around
$700 last time I checked.

Finale is also very popular, but the last time I used Finale
(Admittedly several years ago, and probably multiple versions back),
it was exceedingly difficult to use, and had a very clunky interface.

Finale strikes me more as music publishing software, in that you can
do all these nice little things to make the sheet music pretty. So,
it's sort of like Frontpage, or Quark, but for sheet music. Sibelius
is for serious composers, I think, and is just way better, in my
opinion.

There are a number of ways to get a discounted version of Sibelius -
for example if you're involved in the music department of a church,
belong to one of several musical organizations, or are involved in
teaching, or are a student, for example.

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:38:24 +0100, rien stein <rstein@-----.nl> wrote:
> Hello
>
> For my music notation I am using "Personal Composer", a program with many
> good properties (the best of which was that it was a cheap program), but
> with also a few shortcomings. I am trying to investigate now a few more
> programs. I tried Score Perfect Professional -- a complete waste of money.
>
> On a forum like this one I think there are many people with experiences with
> software like Sibelius, Igor, Finale, possibly also with SPP and other
> programs? The demo versions of these programs are unsatisfying (if they do
> work!), probably due to my lack of experience. That is why I would like to
> know the opinion of more experienced users. Because this subject is so far
> OT if you answer my question please do so in private mail. I am anxious to
> learn about all asapects of score preparation, lay-outing, print control,
> inserting all kind of symbols from dynamics to fermatas to processing
> multiplets (quintuplets, triplets) etc.TIA
>
> Rien
>
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