Day 17 - MuseScore
May. 22nd, 2017 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bpambbergerOnce upon a time, when I wanted to write music, I used Sibelius. It was the only realistic opportunity to provide quality sheet music, and I learned to use it during my time at Uni so I knew what I was doing.
It was also ridiculously expensive and complicated. The creators wanted software that you could use to do practically anything. Since you could do anything, it made it stupidly difficult, at times, to do anything.
Now that I'm saving money again, I'm learning how to use MuseScore. As far as I can see, it's identical to Sibelius, only instead of being expensive and complicated, it's free and simple.
There is, as far as I can tell, no real downside to this. I have traded the ability to save a song file in one of thirty different graphical formats, only two of which I've seen or used before, for a song which has 99.5% of the information I'll need to write my music contained within a single A4 interactive help page.
More on this as it unfolds. Today was spent learning how to use the software and constructing some basic songs.
Tomorrow, if all goes well, I'll write 'Crusader's Blood' and see if I can't arrange it into four-part harmony.
It was also ridiculously expensive and complicated. The creators wanted software that you could use to do practically anything. Since you could do anything, it made it stupidly difficult, at times, to do anything.
Now that I'm saving money again, I'm learning how to use MuseScore. As far as I can see, it's identical to Sibelius, only instead of being expensive and complicated, it's free and simple.
There is, as far as I can tell, no real downside to this. I have traded the ability to save a song file in one of thirty different graphical formats, only two of which I've seen or used before, for a song which has 99.5% of the information I'll need to write my music contained within a single A4 interactive help page.
More on this as it unfolds. Today was spent learning how to use the software and constructing some basic songs.
Tomorrow, if all goes well, I'll write 'Crusader's Blood' and see if I can't arrange it into four-part harmony.
