so on. Notion and Studio One is the only combination I know of that supports MIDI over Rewire.Interesting post. And if for some reason you need to use MIDI, you can easily connect to Studio One. I personally have been using Sibelius since version 1 on the Acorn platform (a long time ago) but recently been looking at Notion 6 and Overture 5 because I am very interested to also produce good quality mock-ups straight from notation. The user interface combines many of the best features from the big boys, so it will feel somewhat familiar to most users, but it’s no faster. By the way I have found all of the above really interesting … thank you.Hi Warren, you can use a MIDI controller with all of them. It’s perfectly readable, but the layout is not very flexible. Its feature set and interface are more limited than the others, but that makes it ideal for younger students. MuseScore provides printed copy easily as good as either Finale or Sibelius, but its big advantage is that it’s free and open source and intends to stay that way. Hi Brian, sorry I missed this post. Just a simple implementation of MIDI controller data, real time, dubbed or otherwise, is a total pain in the neck and highly restricted.
The drawback to this program has been that there is a serious investment in time getting things up and running correctly, but once you do, there is no comparison.Looks like a nice front end for LilyPond. Notion has been around for quite some time but was always a pretty small operation. Sibelius, on the other hand, did a major overhaul of its interface that was pretty universally reviled by experienced users. I personally use Noteflight because it’s cheap and it’s enough for what I need. It responds just like Notion’s library right out of the box and you can program anything that isn’t already supported. Do you have any experience with this product or would I be better off with some of the others in this post.
I’m leaving my email address below and I hope this gets to you and you get back too me.I guess I need to do a better job of self-promotion. The trick though is that you can’t really play expressively. It’s the only one where mouse entry makes sense, mainly because you can add articulations, dynamics, techniques and other entries all at the same time. Yes, it is limited to 5 scores, but if you use it offline (like I do) in order to arrange and compose music for your band or group, then it works perfectly.
For what I do–composing, arranging, songwriting, handouts–Notion meets 95% of my everyday needs. The most important thing is that it does what you need it to do. I know less about Noteflight and its parent company, but as the only product of its kind and with its association with MusicFirst, I expect it has legs too.I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the much-anticipated release of a new notation program by Steinberg, the makers of Cubase. I will be reviewing products, books, and online classes. I’m afraid Notation Composer slipped past me, so I’m not at all familiar with it.
If you need those things then Notion might not be for you.
In my opinion, they are amazing software to type in your music. One of the main reasons Finale and Sibelius are kings is that they’ve been around the longest. Of course you can hide the sequenced part but the whole system is primitive in the extreme.Of course you can do all the detailed performance stuff in a separate DAW then import for notation purposes, but Sibelius is now quite close to being a DAW for the purposes of detailed cc input.What you find easy about Notion I find inflexible.