![]() MuseScore is also a lot more hackable, so if you don’t like how something looks, there is generally a workaround to make it look more to your taste. Comparing some items between MuseScore and Sibelius, MuseScore performs better. Firstly they have gone over to a Microsoft ribbon-style interface and done away with the menu system – appalled! Secondly, somewhere along the line in their upgrades they seem to have left out the ability to reconfigure the keys for certain actions that conflict with how I lay out my keypads – disaster! And thirdly, I’m convinced that the layout engine has actually disimproved between versions 3 and 7. So, thus, I went and invested the €150 in an upgrade to my Sibelius and almost immediately regretted it. Unfortunately, entering a C# in the key of C involves typing the C and then hitting the up arrow to add the sharp, thus hearing both C and C# which completely confuses my ability to proof if I am already listening to wrong notes. I use a computer keyboard for entering notes and reconfigure the keyboard so I have two keypads – one for pitch and the other for duration. For me, there was just one problem though with the note input. The layout, whilst not perfect, is very good and seems to be almost identical to Sibelius (which is also very good but not perfect). Then I hit on MuseScore which was just what I thought I was looking for. I did have a try on the aforementioned LilyPond which has a certain appeal to me as someone who writes code – you type it all out in a text editor and it then renders it on-screen – but, again, the lack of sound feedback was a problem for me. ![]() I use the sound feedback for proofing wrong notes and, therefore, ended up with a few strange transcriptional errors – particularly one piece that had the wrong key signature which I didn’t notice because I couldn’t hear that it sounded rather odd! ![]() Having not spent much time typesetting for a few years, I arrived back to engage in some work in it again to find that the sound no longer worked on my copy of Sibelius 3 due to ‘upgrades’ in operating systems on both Mac and PC locking us into having to pay again for the same software that we already paid for. MuseScore | Free Music Notation 17 Mar, 2015 in Open SourceĪs a long-time user of Sibelius, I was most intrigued to see that there was Open Source competition entering the field in the form of MuseScore and LilyPond (more about that later). ![]()
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