I agree with Joe - If you have something that meets all your needs, there is no need to look for anything more powerful and (probably) complex.

My program HARMONY was designed for a specific purpose (adding chords to a melody), and does as a consequence have some restrictions compared with Finale or Sibelius. The main one is that polyphonic voices are not supported. For polyphonic tunes, you have to create a number of separate voices. MIDI import is supported, but with the same restriction.

But it also has facilities which they do not provide.

For example, has anyone tried the Note Styles? You can add attributes such as Bend, Modulate, Ramp (volume) to individual notes.

All musical output from HARMONY is done by creating and writing MIDI files, and Note Styles can be created which implement any MIDI functions, or combinations. So you could, for example, make a style which increases the volume AND pitch at the same time.

HARMONY was never intended to be a full scoring package, but I am working on MusicXML output, which is implemented by many of the main programs, and will allow a fuller score to be produced.

Download a trial copy here