Music Composition Software?

Subject: RE: Music Composition Software?
From: GUEST,Babel Fish
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 10:49 AM

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Subject: RE: Music Composition Software?
From: M.Ted
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 06:14 PM

I use Overture, which has moved, once again, and is now supported by GenieSoft--Overture has full midi sequencing capacity, and full orchestral notation capacity--a lot ofprofessionals who do soundtracks, show scores, and studio background tracks use it for this reason.   It allows you to create a layer that uses standard musical conventions to notate the MIDI, without altering the MIDI performance.   This means that you can notate jazz eight notes (which are played dotted eighth /sixteenth) as eight notes(which is how they are written) without changing the underlying MIDI capture--

This is very, very, very, important, because, as you know, nowdays, a lot of recordings combine a MIDI capture with real instrumental tracks, and the composer has to retain the underlying track(and, yes, I know, it often is more complex than simply a MIDI capture) and also provide a full Orchestral Score.

For this reason, you need to have a program that is both a full capability orchestra notation program and a full capability seqeuncing program. The Overture program now is available for both
PC and Mac, and the OSX--

Subject: RE: Music Composition Software?
From: shepherdlass
Date: 09 Apr 05 - 04:57 PM

Cakewalk's OK but it used to have problems (which may have been ironed out - it's a while since I programmed) such as not being able to specify a certain number of bars per stave, which is so useful if you need to give out the dots for quick sightreading. The ideal situation that gives you the best of all worlds and quick results is to program with a midi sequencer like Cakewalk or Cubase and then shift the finished product over to Sibelius for tarting up as a score - cost-wise, I noticed someone has already mentioned that there are cracked copies available, not that I'd know anything about that...

Subject: RE: Music Composition Software?
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 12:50 PM

Bringing this back up to the top because I just found out that the girl in question is getting a MAC. Will this make any difference to what software she can get to go with it?

Thanks!

..xx..e

Subject: RE: Music Composition Software?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 01:00 PM

Well ...

It will make it easy for her to eliminate a lot of the programs that have been suggested ...

Most - or at least many - of the commercial programs have Mac versions. For freeware/shareware it's usually easy to tell which system they're written for.

John

Subject: RE: Music Composition Software?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 01:47 PM

Of the shareware, Melody and Harmony Assistant remain options.

abc and lilypond can be done on just about anything providing one can use tools such as a C compiler. Barfly is a nice abc program written for macs.

Subject: RE: Music Composition Software?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 09:32 PM

We need a link to tie this thread to the later: Music Software for Macs.

John

Subject: RE: Music Composition Software?
From: GUEST,Tommy
Date: 21 Sep 05 - 08:26 AM

Has anyone got any veiws on lilypond?