The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #79729   Message #1455174
Posted By: pavane
08-Apr-05 - 06:01 AM
Thread Name: Music Composition Software?
Subject: RE: Music Composition Software?
'Horses for Courses'

Everyone has different requirements and preferences. There is NO WAY that one music program can provide all possible functionality, you just have to find the one that does what you want.

Notation programs are constrained by the requirements of traditional score format. They may not be able to provide the full range of dynamics for audio output, nor provide facilities for sampling.

Tablature programs have to be specific to an instrument or type of instrument.

Sequencers are aimed at audible output, and are not constrained by score format, but cannot necessarily score the result.

Samplers may provide facilities to reassemble or edit sampled music, but not scoring or (full) sequencing capabilities.

Music Capture programs allow capturing of a performance, usually in MIDI format, which is THEORETICALLY possibly to import into a notation program, but in practice not very useful.

And no doubt there are other types of composition software which do not all into these headings