ElBandoneonWEbsite 0 Report post Posted October 30, 2004 Well I finally learned how to use Sibelius, it works pretty well, but yeah I still can't make the file into a PDF file, I have Pdf Jaws and it doesn't work? it doesn't print when I use it, it shows the little printer by the clock for like to seconds and then is gone, and nothing happens it doesn't print ...... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
serverph 0 Report post Posted October 30, 2004 jaws pdf is probably not setup properly...here's another option (requires Adobe Distiller).http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
synapticflame 0 Report post Posted November 3, 2004 A friend of mine has made some glowing recommendations for an Open Source program called ABC. It avoids the hassles associated with a complex GUI by working instead with markup. My friend has used several other graphical notation editors and he claims that this has reduced his work and improved his experience when editing musical notation. It also has tools to automatically convert from ABC notation into MIDI Something for everyone I guess. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rowita 0 Report post Posted November 3, 2004 http://www.finalemusic.com/I've not tried that! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Millenium 0 Report post Posted May 26, 2009 I have MagicScore Maestro, it's easy to use, has a clear and user-friendly interface. I use the virtual piano, it has also a guitar board. You can either connect a midi device to your computer, start playing, and it will record the notation, or place notes and then play back the sheet music. Of course, you can export you notes and print them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sea Mac 0 Report post Posted January 18, 2010 (edited) Does Anyone Know Of a Good Notation Software?I have Sibelius 3 but is way to complicated, and I don't really like the way you move the pages around, I also have Encore that one is easy to use but doesn't a lot of options. Then after you're done writting the sheet music does anyone know what program to use to make it into a Pdf file?Try Lily Pond!http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ It should work on your system and it is FREE. It OUTPUTS to a PDF file: no conversion needed!Features of LilyPondAutomated high-quality formatting * Automatic spacing, line breaking and page breaking. * Handling of polyphonic collisions for notes, dots, and rests. * Automatic placement of accidentals, beams, slurs, ties, based on optimal scoring algorithms. * Users don't need typographical expertise to produce excellent notation. * No user interaction necessary during running. Running the program can be automated which is convenient for mass converting databases of digitized music and printing algorithmic compositions. * The Feta font has been tailored especially for LilyPond, and was designed carefully mimicking the finest hand-engraved scores. It is available as a scalable font, but also as a Metafont.Special notation * Accidental cautionaries and suggestions, classic and modern styles * Ambituses * Arpeggio signs * Balloon texts (teaching) * Beamlets * Blanking arbitrary notation elements (teaching) * Chord names, in English, French or Italian * Cluster notation and rhythmic grouping signs * Coloring of arbitrary notation elements * Cross staff beaming * Cue-notes (automatic) * Dashed or dotted bar lines * Drum notation * EasyNotation note heads * Falls and doits * Feathered beams * Figured bass * Fingerings, including guitar right-hand fingering * Fret diagrams * Glissandi * Grace notes, acciaccatura and appoggiatura * Hairpin crescendi and decrescendi, also with circled tips (al niente) * Harmonics * Laissez vibrer ties * Ledger lines, including automatic shortening for tight spacing * Lyric extenders, hyphens, melismata * Measure repeats (“Percent style”) * Mensural notation * Microtones * Metronome markings * Nested analysis brackets * Orchestral scores with automatic part combining * Ornaments; mordents, pralls and combinations thereof * Ottava brackets (octaviation) * Part extraction: see Orchestral scores * Piano pedals * Polymetric notation * Proportional notation * Quarter tone accidentals * Quoting of other music fragments, including transposing * Separator slashes between systems * Shaped note heads * Starting and stopping staves anywhere * Staves, tunable number of staff lines, individual positioning of staff lines * Stemlets * String numbering, also on chords * System separators * Tablature notation * Tie formatting for chords * Transposing * Tremolos, both for single notes and chords * Trills, also running and explicit pitches * Tuplets in arbitrary ratios, nested, broken with customisable endings * Vertical staff spacing using a skyline algorithmEnjoy your new toy! Notice from rvalkass: Anything copied must be Quoted. Edited January 18, 2010 by rvalkass (see edit history) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rob86 2 Report post Posted January 18, 2010 I'll try out Lily Pond, it looks useful. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
