Thank you for this wonderful video! Although I mostly compose thematically on commission, publishing my original works is something I look forward to doing some day. This video provides wonderful insight in how to do that in the future!

Are you publishing or distributing your own music utilizing MuseScore? How have been your experiences? What would you recommend to others based on your experiences? Have a wonderful, musical day!

Really? MuseScore's playback is the best in the game by a country mile, and you didn't think that was an important address? With the Berlin libraries, it can replace your DAW.

Privet friends! MuseScore has surpasseed Finale few years ago already. Finale's demise is evident. Sibelius still surpase MuseScore, for now, but their is *one* big negative with Sibelius...their love for money! Sibelius' subscription and high price everytime and upgrade is released is what will eventually drag more users to MuseScore (or Dorico). It is evedent that Dorico is by far the best notator in the market...well...most of Finale's top pro musicians are joining Dorico's family! Thus, unless MuseScore can perform as well as Dorico, MuseScore most likely will stand second to Dorico. Eventually, Sibelius might follow Finale to the underworld! For those curious of NotePerformer 4.5. Follow the link here and discover the magic of NotePerformer. I cannot recall any VST sounding like a recording like this. The music in the linked video was produced by Dorico 5.1 Pro driving NotePerformer 4.5.0. The music performance can still be tweaked using Dorico's MIDI lanes, but the listener will definitely hear how NotePerformer is not this 'in-between', medium quality VST as some claims. NotePerformer has a lot of power, if one knows how to use its magic! kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5ergmiQgpl1l6c

Thanks!

All depends on the user's habits. I tried Dorico, but I am still learning it 🙂 I am writing occasionally only simple pieces with a few instruments or a choir setup. Then, the easiest for me is my trusty Noteworthy Composer 🙂 I know ... old, outdated, not updated since years, but to me it simply works, especially when using key commands instead of mouse clicks, as I am used to.

It is not a comparison.

Hello musical friends! Which notation program do YOU think is best, Sibelius, Dorico, or MuseScore? Why do you think that program is the best? Have a wonderful, musical day!

As a MuseScore user for 20 years... It's Dorico/Cubase that's going to take out Sibelius. MuseScore lacks synchronization features that Sibelius/ProTools and Dorico/Cubase has.

I'm a proud Musescore writer and I have written a few concert band pieces in it and I'd say it's pretty good. I love the muse sounds and it allows me to listen to what the piece would sound like when a band performs it.

Hello musical friends! Do you use 2+ notation programs at the moment? If you do, which ones do you use? What do you like about each of them? Have a wonderful, musical day!

As a Sibelius user, if I could afford to spare time to learn a new software, I'd definitely go for Dorico; not only because it's engraving features but also because what Avid did to the original team which I find to be unforgivable! Gotta appreciate Steinberg for having employed the team to build Dorico of which users, I hear, consider it to be superior to Sibelius.

INTERESTING that the video does not show a single example of handwritten scores! I have written many hand written scores in my time and the first big question was, "What is the best pen?" I bought many pens from shorthand pens to oblique nibs and finally I found that the best pen was "A FINE ITALIC NIB" quite common - but the trick is to use it with the pen horizontal to the lines of the stave so that by drawing the nib "down" you can produce a thin line for the stem - and you can draw the nib "across" to create thick beams. This method works well for most things especially sharp symbols with the two thin vertical lines and the two thick horizontal lines. Also a fine line felt pen is useful for drawing the bar lines and the Lyrics under the notes. Also what is the best ink? I found that the waterproof Pelican Ink was excellent - but you need to wash it very carefully after each use or the ink will dry clog up the nib. I found that "Water soluable Black Quink is good, but wind players may - in the act of playing - spit and dissolve the ink, so I would make a photocopy for the parts. JS Bach had the most beautiful music handwriting with curved beams to make the parts fit nicely around each other. The worst handwriting composer, I think, was Beethoven which shows the tremendous struggle he was experiencing when composing music. I am using "Finale" and "MuseScore" these days and have no desire to return to handwritten scores - as they are very time consuming and difficult to produce. Another point, many of the older music text books were written by hand - very carefully - and are worth studying. Jeff

Very well done video, And yes I agree: Dorico is #1 by far for its revolutionary functionalities, elegance of workflow and output results (both in playback as in the graphical output).

I purchased Dorico after Finale. I even purchased the Dorico keyboard. Despite Dorico’s beautiful looking interface its note entry interface is brutal. I have learned to hate it so much that since finale still works I am sticking with it.

Not as long as adding a page break causes notes from one measure to literally collide *into the notes from the adjacent measure*, or adjusting beams causes stems to disappear entirely, it isn’t. Let’s face it, MuseScore sounds pretty but is buggy as shit at this stage of development. Sibelius isn’t going anywhere.

Musescore is better than Sibelus

Literallz every subscription offering a "free trial", does this. After your free time, it will automatically go over into a paid subcription. Apple TV for example. Are you saying, Apple TV is a scam?? If you don't actually READ the user agreement and if you don't take note of when the free trial runs out, it's not MuseScore's fault.

so what i'm hearing is that i should invest in musescore instead of sibelius

great ai video buddy

🎶Hello Musical Friends! 🎶 🎼Do you think Sibelius will fall at some point? 🎼What and when do you think will be the downfall of Sibelius? 🎵Make sure to leave your thoughts in the comments below! 🎵

Why measure numbers BELOW the measures' I the decades I had my engraving company, the default place for measure numbers was upper left of the measure.

what I would like to see is an experiment/competition: you need to enter a little music piece, say a one page Bach two voice invention, and let similarly experienced users enter the piece in their respective software and measure the time and amount of clicks/keystrokes needed to enter the piece. I believe GuitarPro would win and Finale would come last.

Dorico Is #1. I think people just like to defend Musescore because it's free. It is great but just not as great as Dorico.

i can't believe tantacrul's finale video was so brutal that its effects rippled backwards in time and caused then to shut down years early

so tantacrul has waited long enough to do a video about finale

🎵Which program do you think is best for Finale users looking for a new program? 🎼Why do you think that notation software is the best for those individuals? 🎵Make sure to leave your answers in the comments below! 🎶 Have a wonderful, musical day! 🎶

Although my daily driver is a Mac M2 15" MacBook Air, I' recently bought a 15" 2015 MacBook Pro 2.8Ghz Quad Core i7 tha that a new screen and new battery for $200. Finale and MuseScore work a dream on this machine as well as my backup machine, a 2015 MacBook Air - with maxed out @ Monterey, so no update by Apple will nuke either machines for running Finale.

Yes, It was very difficult to cancel. I finally had to call my bank to block them. Musecore was nice but it is a rip-off.

🎵Do you prefer MuseScore or Dorico?🎵 🎶Why did you prefer that software? 🎶 🎼For me, I simply prefer the software I am used to, Dorico. I love it's interface, and it immediately made more sense to me than when I started learning Finale (back in college) or MuseScore. 🎹Despite liking Dorico more, I still thought MuseScore seemed extremely powerful. It's a great tool to a lot of musicians, and I do hope more people use it in the future. 🎶Have a wonderful, musical day! 🎶

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1:31 Just hit the ESC button.

Love the narrator's voice - adorable (accept the end of sentences when it trails off into vocal fry). :^>

Finale RIP.

Finale RIP.

I found it really hard to understand this video. It's just too fast and needs better diction.

of course the workflow of a software you know in and out will feel better than anything new to you...

I did have a M1 MacBook Air a few years ago and used Sibelius exclusively but it stopped working a year ago so I got a M2 iPad Pro for composing music. However, Sibelius for iPad leaves a lot to be desired. It resembles nothing like the Mac version. The interface is awful and extremely limited. Now, I use Dorico and it’s simply better on the iPad. Way better! It’s not even a contest! The iPad version is very close to the MacBook version. The interface and layout is virtually the same although not full featured but really close. Dorico is simply superior over Sibelius on the iPad. The only thing I wish Dorico had for iPad is a world-class sound library like Spitfire, NotePerformer, or Berlin. The built-in libraries available are not the best but they sound fine but even that’s better than the tinny, thinness of the sound library for Sibelius for iPad. Nonetheless, Dorico is just miles better in every way than Sibelius if using an iPad in my opinion. However, I would LOVE to see Musescore 4 for iPad but only if it’s a near-virtual MacBook version.

🎶Hello musical friends! 🎶 🎵Which app do you prefer, Dorico or Sibelius? 🎵Why do you prefer that one? 🎼 Leave your answer in the comments below! 🎶Have a wonderful, musical day! 🎶

Finale RIP.

Finale RIP. Dead. Pining for the fjords.

Always love hearing and seeing videos focused on making music with an iPad. I am interested in how you came to the conclusion that these two apps were the most popular in iPad?

musescore is super easy to notate in but take so much fiddling to make it look the way you want it too

Finale is dead

Sept 2024...Finale RIP. Pining for the fjords.

Thank you, Musescore any day for me!

Prophetic!

I would love to learn more about the information discussed, but as an hearing-challenged person, I found it too difficult to follow the narrative. Perhaps a better microphone needs to be used, or the narrator needs to speak more into the mic.

Finale RIP.

The Voice is so annoying