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Jonathan Slyker
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Montclair, New Jersey, USA
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Posted 17 Feb 2010 11:11 am |
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What do you guys use as your music notation "word processor" when you have to write out musical notes (not tabs or chords)?
A bit unrelated to steel, I realize, but I have to write out some horn parts and don't want to have to keep erasing in pencil and then re-xeroxing. I understand Sibelius and Finale are the industry standards, but perhaps they're more sophisticated than I need.
I understand tabledit and BIAB will also create written music sheets but I don't need all the midi stuff and other hi-tech. I just want to write the notes out correctly. Any ideas? |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 17 Feb 2010 11:18 am
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Windows or Mac?
I don't have an answer, but I'm very interested in the replies. Ideally, I'd like to have a word processor that includes musical staff capabilities. Like you, I don't care a whole lot about tab or MIDI.
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Jonathan Slyker
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Montclair, New Jersey, USA
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Posted 17 Feb 2010 11:38 am music notation software
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Interesting question. I forgot that issue when I posted. I use both platforms, and ideally, analagous to how we all use Word and Excel interchangeably across platforms, one could use either or both platforms (assuming you buy the product 2x).
Incidentally, I also notice that there are some apps out there for ipod/iphone and wonder if these might be better than the old pencil and eraser.
Thanks. |
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Clete Ritta
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San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 17 Feb 2010 1:51 pm
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I use Logic on a Mac. Besides its audio and midi recording and editing, it has very robust scoring features as well.
Clete |
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John Cipriano
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San Francisco
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Posted 17 Feb 2010 10:28 pm
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MuseScore is a decent free one. They have Windows, Mac and Linux versions. It reminds me of Finale a little bit. You can do most of it using just the (computer) keyboard, but you can use the mouse to put in the notes too. For transcribing horn lines it should be more than enough.
http://musescore.org/ |
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Anders Eriksson
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Mora, Dalecarlia, Sweden
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Posted 17 Feb 2010 11:57 pm
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Don't know how advanced program you need, but you can use TablEdit. Just take away the tab part...
Otherwise I use Forte Free, a German software (in English  ) that as the name says it free. They have more advanced program also if you need more, but hey cost.
http://www.forte-notation.eu/en/
// Anders
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Jonathan Slyker
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Montclair, New Jersey, USA
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Posted 18 Feb 2010 7:05 am
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| Thanks, guys, for your info. I'm going to go with the MuseScore, because of the 2 platform capability, and of course, the price is right. I'm hoping that the files will translate smoothly from platform to platform (that is, files created in Windows will open in Mac and vice-versa). Any experience with that, John? |
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John Cipriano
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Posted 19 Feb 2010 11:08 am
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I was just talking to Jonathan some more about MuseScore, and he suggest that we put it on the forum in case others are interested.
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Hi Jonathan. I haven't had to transpose anything (I only actually used it once for something very simple) but I know that there is a transpose function. You select all of the notes you want to move and then choose the option from the menu. It should change the key signature as well if you want it to.
I know that you can enter chord names in MuseScore, but I don't know about the "hash" chords that tabs sometimes have. But the transpose function should change those as well.
Take a look at these:
http://musescore.org/node/604
http://musescore.org/handbook/chord-name
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