Finale finally

Sibelius, por favor dejad programas que editan muuuy mal

BRAVO DAMIANO. GRAZIE MLLE!

First of all, some bars (i believe you know which ones) are totally "stolen" from Ravel´s Pavana,... just kidding... one question, how did you get on scroll view?

Wait, you guys actually pay for software? I thought it was a joke

The best advice from RK is that harmony trumps the choice of instruments. Poor harmony will never sound good and well chosen chords will sound well with strings, winds or brass.

Musescore 4 is easy to use. It may not function 100 percent the same like the way Sibelius in general. In general it pretty much the same in my opinion. If you were a Sibelius user before, it should not be an issue to use Musescore 4. I personally don't find any difficulty. Musescore 4 in my opinion a very good notation software and produce nice sound effect. I been using it for more than a year and will go back to those old S or F. I do thank to Musescore from now for whatever achievement in this program, which is allow me to write potential musical idea into composition. Happy composing everyone. Cheers.

17:34 i can see the influence of rachmaninoff 2nd symphony here, nice

Encore is STILL in use in Spain for arranging and composing music for cornets and drums bands (very popular here). Many of them use Encore because of its ease of use. I used it in early 2000s. Then switched to Sibelius 2 until 8th version, and then to MuseScore. I'm very pleased because as a Linux user, Sibelius was the only thing preventing me to completely wipe Windows out of my machine.

I used Encore also and thought that it was great for it's time. Amazing how full featured it was with a limited size on floppy disk! Definitely using MuseScore for years now.

A great shortcut I found was 12345 to pick notes quavers crochets etc. But the fastest is connecting midi electric piano🎹

Changing the tempo is easy. You just open the "New All" dialogue a click the "Quit Sibelius" button.

Encore.

Encore

I use musescore since 2012 is a hate loved relationship ir crashes Every time I change the type of compasses, instruments in giant Musical pieces that I do When the file gets big it gets very very slow

Encore!

Shift click is your friend in musescore. I've been using it for a decade and NEVER drag and drop Most important keyboard shortcuts: N: notation mode S: Slur T: Tie

I liked using Musescore, but I think the future replacemnt to Finale is Dorico. I've been using Dorico for the last couple of months and have been loving it. Very professional look and premium features.

Composer here has stopped using all other programs since 2010 because MuseScore has been been more than enough. Great composers did it without software for hundreds of years..🤷🏽‍♂️

Since MuseScore 4 came out I haven’t used any other notation software, there just was no reason to. (Though I still mostly write by hand 😅)

I had to learn Sibelius as a composition undergrad, and it was really tough. I struggled a lot at first, but by the end of it, I was writing my entire graduation piece extremely quickly. However, at some point, I decided to try Musescore after it had been revamped for 4.0 and man was I not disappointed. It really feels like a better designed tool (at least better than Sibelius, I never tried Finale). Wish it would've been at this stage while I was an undergrad student.

Ist musescore die einzige moderne Notationssoftware, die aktuellen Standards entspricht? Was ist mit Notion? NotionMobile ist mein persönlicher Favorit.

Love the way you did this review - jumping in cold & just seeing what you could figure out intuitively in real time - exactly the way I would have done it. I've never used Musescore & at this point have invested a fair amount of time to learning Dorico, but it's good to know about this.

What's that piece between 10:16 and 10:35? It's very interesting, but I can't find it anywhere.

why you can't have a audio refernce like guitar pro

I started years ago with Encore and appreciated its interface. Then switched to Finale and out of frustration moved to Sibelius. I got tired of their expensive updates and decided to try Musescore 3. Now that they are on 4.4.3 (and working on 4.5, a major update) I’m very happy with MuseScore and will never go back. Also, since it does everything I need to do and looks great, I’ll never buy Dorico, either. I tried the trial version of Dorico and it was so frustrating just to set up, I’m fine with it. MuseScore is very intuitive and powerful, so I’m happy to keep riding that wave.

I got into 'composing' at the age of 5 with Noteworthy Composer for Windows 95. I've composed on and off for the 25 years since, and each time I start up again, I've had to find a new program, with new limitations on the free version (or, new difficulties obtaining a cracked version...). A year ago I started up again and found MuseScore. An incredible piece of software, far better than Finale was the last time I used it, and comparable to the last time I used Sibelius. And best of all, it runs natively on linux. It almost feels too good to be true.

The problem with MuseScore is specially up to modern Notation; i've been waiting 30(!!!) years to find a notation program to write music the Brian Ferneyhough-style; nested tuplets/tuplets across barlines/clusters etc., even with Finale it was a pain and also in Sibelius, in both (and in MuseScore too) it's only working with „tricks“, only visual, so you even have a wrong rhythmic playback after hours of work. So i must admit that Dorico is THE FIRST and only scoring program that handles all of this OUT OF THE BOX with absolutely no playback-issues. So after using the scoring inside Logic (i use it since version 1.0 back in 1993) for the easy things, cause Logic's notation features are more advanced than many people think, and using Finale for the complex stuff i completely switched to Dorico and don't regret any penny i've spent for it. I highly recommend it for modern composers who need a fast workflow. (I'm NOT getting payed by Steinberg for saying this, haha)

This popped up on my feed after I arranged a piece in Finale v26. My main plan is to continue using Finale until my computers are no longer capable of running it (Finale has said they will allow activations "forever"). I only compose occasionally and mainly have it to "create" sheet music of what I play (via a MIDI keyboard). When I finally stop using Finale, I may look at Dorrico or Sibelius, however, for my skillset and use case (assuming it allows for MIDI devices) I may use Musescore. Thanks so much for the video--it's great to get an honest opinion of Musescore from someone more qualified than most of my peers.

Nah, Dorico is the future. It's just that Musescore (apart from being free) has an excellent player and integrated libraries

I have been using Musescore for a few years now. It’s very solid even 4.0 was a bit of a downgrade at first with less features available (like smooth scrolling) , but it’s getting better since the last few months. I don’t recommend using their online platform though, it’s going downhill since 2019

Sounds good but I'll stick with notion

Bello trovare youtuber italiani che fanno vera musica! Grazie!

Encore ver 6 is expected to be available soon 🙏

Honestly pretty impressive for musescore, you got pretty far without even having to read any kind of tutorial

Musescore 4 is pretty amazing. Lots of improvements over the previous version. The new version pushes it beyond being a nice tool for education and amateur composers to a viable alternative for professional composers.

Encore. I tried it and it was a disaster.

Musescore is open source software which means that it will not disappear ever. So you won't have to learn a totally new user interface ever, of course they may change something in the future. I work in a different area, including electronics design. For that, I used Eagle over 20 years. Last year, Autodesk, the current owner of the softeare, announced that they end the current product in summer 2026, moving to a totally different paradigm, and abandoning Linux as a OS platform, and forcing to cloud storage of your designs. This forces me to move to another program, and I am moving to KiCad, an open source system. The situation is quite similar with Finale and Musescore.

I also used encore by passport. It was simple to use but had issues with midi devices as the further development stopped.

The problem of Musecore doesn't have the capability to write notes directly from a keyboard. You have to do manualy! I dont like it. I prefer Sibelius!

Tried finale could never get used to that interface though so I switched back to musescore

encore

Encode! I used in in the late 90s / early 2000s. I have been using MuseScore for a couple years now, and I like it.

I wonder if Finale can be open-sourced.

I used Finale for years but I feel it never really embraced the 21st century in its UI and software development. Then I switched to Sibelius, but the application lacks of intuitive design and the Avid business scheme ruined it IMO. So about three years ago I moved to Musescore and it's my favorite notation software of all times. Sure, everything wasn't clear at the beginning, but more I work with it, more I find it easy. The learning curve is way more simple than with Finale (which was the worst of all) and Sibelius. I didn't used it for complex contemporary or experimental music, where staves must have particular designs yet, thing that was great with Finale even if tedious. For the past decade, I write mostly for a big band of 21 musicians in ~16 sections and Musescore does the job perfectly.

I also used Encore but can hardly remember what it was like. This must have been in my Soundblaster 16 + Waveblaster module time. I've dabbled in Sibelius and finally bought a license for Harmony Assistant. That last one has a horrible interface but it was very powerful and had a singing synthesizer module which was the reason I bought it. But now it's MuseScore all the way.

I really like the quintet. I noticed a rather striking similarity to a part of Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte. Starting with the D in measure 6 (Violin 1) to the G in bar 10 it sounds similar to bar 3 and 4 in Pavane. Here you can listen to Pavane with the sheet music: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXK2iqBpgMSDra8

My late composition teacher, Jack Jarrett, created Notion. Many friends liked it, but it didn't survive. I couldn't use it because it wasn't supported on Linux. I'm impressed by MuseScore, though.

encore and lilypond

I switched to Dorico Pro as MuseScore does not fit in every way to my workflow. Makemusic has a deal for Finlae users!