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Re: Recommend Music Notation Software

Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2022-05-07 12:38

It kind of depends what you want it for I think.

I use Dorico for writing arrangments because it's really good for making changes retrospectively. For example, you can go back and change the time signature or whatever, even when you are really far into the piece.

However, I don't find that I can manage totally on just Dorico, so I sometimes export to XML and then import the music into Sibelius to make some very specific changes. For example, Sibelius has really good scripts for automatically adding brass fingerings to the music. Sibelius has loads of scripts and you can write scripts very easily so if you are desktop publishing music for a community orchestra and having to produce and distribute pdfs online every week, then it is great for that.

I think Dorico is free for two staves and Sibelius for 4 staves. They cost a bit for slightly more staves, and a fair bit more for 64 staves. However, both are lifetime licences, so if you save up the cash like I did then they really do a lot of amazing things with no on-going costs.

I don't really know about other options.

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