The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #79729   Message #1447505
Posted By: JohnInKansas
30-Mar-05 - 10:51 PM
Thread Name: Music Composition Software?
Subject: RE: Music Composition Software?
PrintMusic is still available from Finale. It's a fairly solid program. It's reasonably priced and makes a fairly nice score. It can also save as MIDI to playback what you've scored. If you want a reasonably capable basic notation program it's not a bad choice. There are free/shareware programs available with about the same capabilities, if you can figure out which one(s) actually do what you want.

I have/had a very nice little program called "Rhapsody" but one of the big guys bought them up and took the program off the market to kill the competition with their "bigger" program. The bigger program is so big it's clumsy; and unfortunately the old Rhapsody was never fully converted to current Windows compatible so it doesn't really run - it just lurches - on WinXP. There is, apparently, a "new" program called Rhapsody, but it has little similarity to the old one so far as I can tell.

John