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Author: Jobsys
Date: 2004-08-30 10:41
Can anyone advise me of a suitable package of notation software to print Jazz solos?
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Author: Bennett ★2017
Date: 2004-08-30 17:29
Consider Finale Notepad (http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/index.asp). It is the free version of a family of increasingly more powerful (and more expensive) music notation software.
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-08-30 22:01
I own and use Sibelius, Finale and Mosaic ... all of which I like for very different reasons and none of which I'd trade for the other.
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: beejay
Date: 2004-08-31 08:53
Nobody has mentioned Noteworthy Composer. It is very easy to use and more flexible than the template-based programs in my opinion. You can download it and try it for free for a month.
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2004-08-31 10:02
I've used 4 different programs (Finale, Sibelius, and 2 more I can't remember) and Sibelius is definitely the best one, no contest.
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Author: allencole
Date: 2004-08-31 15:10
I would give a very strong recommendation for Sibelius, but Noteworthy Composer is very flexible and is dirt cheap at $40.00.
I use it on my website for playable examples.
Allen Cole
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-08-31 21:51
clarnibass ... perhaps you've not done any contemporary scores in Sibelius yet? I have and I find Finale's contemporary notation much easier to get around - also.
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2004-09-01 05:32
Contemporary scores...
For an extreme example, see anything by Crumb (music that is beautiful handwritten, but would be a nightmare to input to a computer). Less extreme, anything that does strange things with stems, note values, staves, accents, etc. can be tedious (if even possible) to get the desired effect with computer notation, though from what I hear Finale is quite a bit more friendly than Sibelius for such things. Also see some Grisey, Boulez, Berio, and lots of others that aren't coming to mind immediately.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: John_May
Date: 2004-09-01 05:58
I use noteworthy myself, but I have yet to find any computer that can manage to swing when it plays back what I input.
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-09-01 06:14
EEBaum is spot on ... I was asked to notate a modern score ... full of bells and whistles (thank god I work as a graphic designer and have some artistic skills), was more easily able to do this in (surprisingly) Mosaic (imported as a PICT file - Macintosh) and in Finale in it's beautifully interfaced graphics engine ... in Sibelius, I gnased my teeth a lot, threw my hands up in the air (caught them, reattached them) and gave up.
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: Contra
Date: 2004-09-01 22:12
Noteworthy Composer is best if you just need to write one piece. It does have some drawbacks, such as the lack of bar rests. The trial version does save and print for one month, so it's great to try out. I'd go with NC if you don't need to write out scores for different instruments or get into anything too heavy.
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