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Re: Music Notation Packages

To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Music Notation Packages
From: hst@xxxxx (Klaas Hemstra)
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 10:53:00 +0100
Cc: graham_wade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Priority: low
Reply-to: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[Quoting Graham Wade, on Sep 12 1996, 09:52, in "Music Notation Packa"]
...

| Cakewalk Pro 3.0, Capella 2.2, Cubase Score, Encore 4.0, Coda Finale,
| Musicator Audio and Personal Composer
| 
| if anyone has any experience with any of the above packages or can suggest
| others to look at I would be grateful if you could
| send me an e-mail.

I use Musicator Win (not Audio, but that's no difference for scoring
music).

When i chose a notation package about two years ago, i tried Finale
and Cubase. At that time i was not at all content with Finale, because
it was very hard to learn how to use. Even though i am a computer
programmer, and have use a lot of Windows (both Microsoft Windows, Mac
and X windows) programs, it was not easy to use Finale.

A demo version of Musicator looked much more promising, it was much
more user friendly. There is a demo version of Musicator available, so
do try it !!!

For the notating i do, Musicator is sufficient.
It can't do everything (Finale can do a lot more) but enough for my
needs.

I like it a lot.
I could give you a summary what it can and can't do, but you can read
that in any advertisement, so ...

A few feature that are a 'plus' for me:
- Musicator auto-notates very straightforward. Measures look good
  without problems most of the time.
- The page-layout can be changed very simply and WYSIWYG

Maybe what it can't do, and i would like:
- A time signature 'C' (also called common time signature) instead of
  4/4 is not available. 
- Also the C with a vertical bar (cut time signature) instead of (2/2)
  is not available. 
(The above two should be available in the next version)
- A few minor problems notating synchopated bars, you sometimes can't
  notate a bar as you would like.
- Patch caching, so that it works better with my Gravis UltraSound
  soundcard :-(

Klaas


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