Anyone using MuseScore?

[Daveg4otu]

From the earist POV(with no aptitude for sight reading whatsoever) ...I have found karaoke midi files excellent as the tempo, key etc can be adjusted as well as various instruments removed.... so for instance, I have a midi of Jole Blon in B flat - which my 48 bass Weltmeister can't deal with (neither could I)...I can push it up to C or down to G, knock out the accordion part, slow it down to a speed I can cope with and off we go.

 

[jarvo]

From the earist POV(with no aptitude for sight reading whatsoever) ...I have found karaoke midi files excellent as the tempo, key etc can be adjusted as well as various instruments removed.... so for instance, I have a midi of Jole Blon in B flat - which my 48 bass Weltmeister cant deal with (neither could I)...I can push it up to C or down to G, knock out the accordion part, slow it down to a speed I can cope with and off we go.

How areyou getting along with young Jole ?

I find the bass timing...well ...a bit of a b....and something you want to scratch...this Cajun stuff mon...may only have two chords ..but heck the timing !!


ahy yee

 

[Daveg4otu]

How areyou getting along with young Jole ?

I find the bass timing...well ...a bit of a b....and something you want to scratch...this Cajun stuff mon...may only have two chords ..but heck the timing !!


ahy yee

Lets just say I am improving ....s-l-o-w-l-y!

:roll:

 

[lightninboy]

I researched free songwriting software, and MuseScore and Finale NotePad seemed the best to consider, and I tried Finale NotePad because I thought I would like U.S.A. software more than European software, but now I think MuseScore is probably the better and I am going to try it.

 

[james_from_stoke]

MuseScore is a great free piece of software - better than sibelius to me (and free). You'll have to change the accordion sound to reed organ or something similar. The accordion sound is like a cat under the wheels of a bus. Whoever made it heard a synth effect of an accordion in 1980, vaguely remembered what it sounded like, having never actually heard an accordion, and based the voice on that. Otherwise though, MuseScore is great. I am writing all of my folk music onto the computer, so that I can just take the laptop anywhere I need music, instead of luging around stacks of books and loose sheets, or arriving without the one tune that you always forget how to play. And writing out music really helps you get to know a tune better - when you see it written down you can see how one accompaniment or variation might fit better here or there than another. And, of course, transposition is just so much easier

 

[MichaPooh]

Hello

Yes, Musescore is really a gift to the community. It is by far my prefered music editor.

Its true that the accordion sound is terrible. The version 1.x uses a very small soundfont by default.
But you can easily change that by downloading a better soundfont and using that one.

See the musescore forum entry: http://musescore.org/en/node/41206

That doesnt change the sound used by the online player though....
so im used to open the files directly with musescore when I browse sheet music with accordion instruments.

 

[the-tenth-planet]

I've used it for ages and love it. I'd just choose piano when choosing the instrument rather than accordion (because as everyone's been saying, the accordion sound is dreadful). It's very easy to use, though, and amazingly high quality for a freebie.

 

[lightninboy]

I'm going to try Finale NotePad again. It doesn't have as many instruments to choose from, but maybe it will be easier to use.

 

[lightninboy]

Oh, the heck with Finale NotePad. I can live with MuseScore. It's just a good idea to get the song down finished on paper and just use MuseScore for the finished product.

 

[kphunter]

Musescore is great - and you can change the soundfont. There is an instruction on the forum somewhere for how to do it. Then the accordion doesn't sound so bad.