Regarding Note Performer: Martin Keary (a.k.a. Tantacrul), the new Product Manager for Musescore, is a big fan of Note Performer, and it's will known that Musescore's current playback is quite janky, so I suspect that Note Performer support is reasonably high on the priority list for Musescore 4
Yes, pretty sure it's comfirmed, Musescore will include vst support as well as a built in DAW/sequencer + Noteperformer support. I think the noteperformer crew have to step in for support, but it shouldn't take long I think, both Musescore 4 and Noteperformer support. I plan on buying Noteperformer once it's supported (other notation software are just too expensive for what they are worth)
It does seem that they've delayed support and it won't be in 4.0, based on an update post from summer, but it will most likely be only delayed until 4.1 if they can manage it
@@fannin8583 You might've snapped the controls segment of the interface off to some far corner of the screen where they are unretrievable. Just try to reinstall the program.
The only reason I don't currently use MuseScore is because its built-in virtual instruments don't sound very realistic. If it was able to use NotePerformer for playback, I would be much more likely to consider switching to MuseScore. (I'm currently using Notion, because it's relatively inexpensive and includes high-quality instrument samples for playback.)
I think the best about Musescore is its accessibility for blind users. The whole program is so good to use with screenreader software and a braille-display that I couldn't imagine something better, except the DAW Reaper which is also very accessible for blind people. So these two in combination are just perfect for composers with visual impairment.
If there's ever a plugin or full DAW/notation program specifically geared towards the visually impaired they really ought to name it after Louis Vierne
That's funny. It has terrible keyboard shortcut support outside of the US keyboard. It doesn't read keys properly like software should, and instead reads the output like it's a GameMaker game. But it's great that they've made it so it works great for blind users. I do really like that, since they are often forgotten. Still wished they could fix the keyboard issue too.
One thing I actually like to do with musesore is write my pieces out so that they're visually pleasing, and then export the midi which I import into a DAW. (Mine is FL Studio) Then I can bring the sound to life some haha
Good point. The ability to export and import MIDI files and thereby use MuseScore in conjunction with a DAW is a work-around for MuseScore's playback shortcomings.
@@simonrigby2776 There's already a piano roll editor in the program, it just isn't too good for anything except for fixing messed up arpeggios and grace notes
MuseScore 4 is a massive rewrite and upgrade. The usability, engraving and playback have all been radically improved. So the case for using it is even more compelling.
There are more and more open source / free projects that reach ridiculous quality level. I do a lot of 3d modeling and rendering and "Blender" is outrageous. Not easy to get into it, but even has some (cool) features that none of the expensive paid software systems have.
When I came to music arrangement (and more recently composition) 3 years ago, Sibelius was the professional choice and Finale was considered just too weird and complex. Finale suffered from the classic "first product" conundrum of being locked into early dodgy design decisions which couldn't be changed without breaking stuff. Sibelius learned from Finale's mistakes and Dorico has probably learned from both. I couldn't really justify the Sibelius cost as a hobbyist and thankfully discovered MuseScore. It does everything I need and certainly has a great community, plugins, training videos and plans for the future. The planned VST3 solution for version 4 should provide a listening experience as good as Note Performer gives. The other notation system I tried was Notion. This comes free with the subscription for my DAW of choice (Studio One) and has good DAW integration. But it's just not polished and flexible enough for me. I usually have to move to MuseScore for the score to look good. I am a retired software developer and have benefited from and contributed to a number of open source projects. And if/when I really get a bee in my bonnet about a missing MuseScore capability, I like the idea that I can roll my sleeves up and work on it myself - for my own benefit and that of other like me. Finally I was excited to read that Tantacrul (Martin Keary) is now head of design at Muse, so the design and usability quality is definitely going just keep on going up!
VST Probably the most exciting part of our plans include a new audio engine as well as VST support. We plan to implement integration with Steinberg's VSTi SDK, while making sure that our system will integrate with NotePerformer. To that end, we are in constant communication with the engineers from the NotePerformer team to ensure that the integration goes smoothly. musescore.org/en/MuseScore4
@@RyanLeach The most recent statement I have found is in musescore.org/en/node/319957 "Our Progress on MuseScore 4" (though it may be out-of-date) is: Tantacrul • Apr 14, 2021 - 16:07In reply to What's the current plan for… by L'Moose We have not built NotePerformer support in MuseScore 4.0. As mentioned above, we are working on something else. More updates to come soon.
@@prototypeinheritance515 its very confusing to use i'll admit that. (although everything you need is online) It can do a lot more then muse score can. I know as I started with it due to it being a lot cheaper. My teacher showed me the ropes and after using Finale for a bit I really do not want to go back to muse score My writing ability was chocked from it.
@@nathanasher9139 so I transferred a song I made from muse score to finale and noticed a lot of slurs and other accidental were needed where there were none. In other words muse score put it there for me. Which seems great except if I'm writing for an orchestra it wont be accurate to what I want. There where also a bunch of times my teacher was going into some more detailed sides one might occasionally use. Muse score did not have it available. I'll admit it's far easier to access a lot of additions as well as its smoother when you right click drag. But after using finale for a bit I have a hard time going back to musescore There
I have been using MuseScore since 2013, and each release just gets better. I have used MuseScore to typeset lieder, part songs, piano solo, piano quintet, string quartet and full symphony orchestra - all as transcriptions, either from manuscript or from Public Domain editions. The "engraving release" of MuseScore 3.6.2 introduced a much more professional look to scores. Sure, I too would have been really glad to see integration with NotePerformer. But if the MuseScore developers can produce an equivalent which sounds as good in the upcoming MuseScore 4, I'll stop being grumpy and go with the flow.
If all you do is enter other people's already engraved sheet music, it's passable. You can literally just sit there appending the symbols you see in the original music, from left to right. Musescore is useless for editing music as a composer.
Wish Musescore could use proper keyboard shortcuts. I should not have to pick my keyboard layout when I set it up. That's a sign of bad software. Especially since my keyboard layout isn't even an option.
I started using musescore when I was around 16, back when it was still with in the 1.0 version. To this day its way more intuitive than others. Sure the playback is rough, but for the price of free, so worth it to learn.
its even better now. literally everything has improved since this video. there is no reason to not use musescore other than already owning an industry standard software
Used MuseScore to listen to the difficult parts for playing trumpet, now i use it to learn to Play keyboard. You can also export your sheet Music to FL studio.
3:22 Tbf, playback is only bad if you compare it to noteperformer and DAWs. As a student, Sibelius is provided for free to me, so I decided to try it out and see how it was, only to be horrified that unless you pay $120 for Note Performer, Sibelius's default sounds are straight from 90's MIDI, and can't even do single-note dynamics (e.g. decresndoing through a whole note) like MuseScore can. Idk about you, but if I'm using notation software with no additional or external features and was selecting one for playback quality alone, I would go with MuseScore without question. The other softwares, as far as I can tell, don't come close to competing.
There are a few really annoying bugs in Musescore. Also, the program often don't start when I try to opne it. When it comes to the playback, the sound quality is WAY better than in Finale, which I have too and use. It's not even in the same league. It's more userfriendly and i'ts easier to adapt details. Some featuers are much better in Finale though like the copy and paste function, for instance. What I really miss in both programs is a function for switching two voices from two different staffs - that would be enourmously useful.
I bought Sibelius many years ago, mostly because of the comments and recommendations of a friend who was a professional copyist/arranger. I'm an amateur musician but wanted a decent notation program and used Sibelius enough to get reasonably comfortable. However, I didn't use it that much and found a number of things to be difficult (or impossible) to achieve. When I heard about Dorico (around version 2), I checked out a number of videos and decided the cost to switch was reasonable. Again, because I'm not a pro, I tend to use it sporadically and haven't yet become terribly proficient. However, I do find that whatever I want to do with it is easier and more straightforward than Sibelius. I do find having to use the eLicensor system a royal P.I.A. I'm about to get serious about learning and using the program regularly (now version 3.5) and will see how well I do over the next few months. At this point, the sound options are not critical, although nice to have. If it turns out I find them to be unimportant to what I do, I will probably look more closely at Musescore.
I made the switch from Sibelius to Dorico very recently and so far so good. I don't know if I'll ever do any Dorico focused content, but if there's something specific you'd like to see let me know!
I’ve been using MuseScore 4 Alpha and I think it is going to be very nice. Dorico 4.2 is buggy. So much so I asked for a refund. Finale is nice but it lacks a few things I like about the others and even on sale it is $300. But if I were to buy one Finale would be it. Sebilius is long in the tooth and needs a UI refreshing.
I've been wondering what people have in their heads when they put dictators and murderers of millions like Stalin on their avatars? Do you really think it's cool?
@@sashko-fomin do I think it’s cool, no, but I do think somebody online shouldn’t care about someone’s profile picture because, A, it doesn’t show any bit of my personality, B it’s an old dead dude, C I don’t care about the USSR and finally I’ve had the same picture for 5 years now, but yes I must say musecore is a nice notation software
@@danishdangler9223 It does show your personality, at least as an immature one and your reasoning is just proving that... Sadly Musescore doesn't have VST support and its playback is subpar
@@sashko-fomin it shows my personality as immature…🤦, if you really think a picture of Stalin tells you about me then we definitely found the one that’s immature. Let alone that your actually trying to argue with someone in the UA-cam comments. As for musecores downsides, someone with actual skill at composing could learn to live with them.
@@danishdangler9223 I'm not trying to argue. I was just curious to know why people do it as I don't pick random "old dead dudes" for my avatars. You failed to explain. Your last argument that you've had this picture for 5 years was very "strong", just as the rest. I've made the conclusion. Period.
I think the reason why noteperformer support is not planned is because they are planning to add vst support and also the piano roll feature that you talked about is going to be added too.
I think "not clunky' does not do justice to how smooth and robust the graphics engine of Musecore is. Also Musecore is extensively documented on you tube and the Musecore website.
I was originally a Sibelius 6 user, but couldn't justify the upgrade expense and switched to MuseScore a few years back as a result. Surprisingly, many task were actually easier and more straightforward and I've found the playback sounds usable in general (and, in some instances, even better than Sibelius 6.2). Because MuseScore is free, it was easy to get my fellow band members to download and start using the program too--which also proved very helpful. (The only other Sibelius user in the band left quite a while ago and I ended up having to do a lot of manual transcription work and PDF/MIDI exporting before making the switch.) MuseScore is a little buggy and missing some features I could really use (especially playback on numbered repeats, for which I've had an open request for probably two years or so), but I'm still quite happy to have made the jump.
This is something I think I'll look into. My last midi editor quit working because new windows version no longer supported it. I'm a hobbyist, so this looks like a choice. I really don't have the income to afford a professional grade package. For that matter, as long as I can transcribe sheet music, and have my computer play it back, at this time, that sounds like a great option for me.
What app would you guys recommend for taking an existing piece of sheet music and having it transcribed to a different key or instrument? I’m trying to save time and haven’t written in a while. I have an arrangement I like for tenor sax and want it transcribed for alto. I’ll actually be using both versions.
um i am not using this!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm just using what i've been taught thanks to orchestra class!!!!!!!!!!!!!! using musescore would be such a waste of time for me..................
From my experience and point of view, Muse Score is getting closer with playback and intuitiveness. The thing is that Sibelius is so efficient for what I do when it comes to note input and score formatting/engraving. To me, Muse Score is somewhat a mixture of Finale and Sibelius when it comes to note input and formatting: Finale was horrible at being intuitive but provided insane control over score formatting/engraving; Sibelius is so intuitive but had some formatting drawbacks.
I currently use MuseScore, I enjoy it very much. Been trying to get funkier with it and push it's limits. It's fun to learn things every now and then from other people, mentally running to MuseScore just to try them out. It's been a wonderful learning tool for me, and I'd recommend it to other beginners like myself, or even just to slap down some random notes and think "Damn, I made some music." getting better over time. Cool video, MuseScore is not perfect, but it is fun.
I think Musescore is the best software for music notation, and now with version 4.1 they improved a lot. The MS Sounds are far better than the soundfonts of version 3, but still not perfect. I use it in combination with Logic and works good. The prices of all AVID products are extremely expensive and I'll never pay that much for a software. And also don't like the subscription system. You can do a version of the video now that MS4 is out.
I like musescore. But version 4 has a problem. It's in the key signature section. It doesn't give you the one you want. For example I wanted a particular key, say D maj and it gave me a different key, I can't remember which now but it had more sharps than I needed. So I went back to V3. Let me know when it's fixed.
Does anyone know - is music on musescore Opensource? (ie free from copyright). I’ve started a UA-cam channel about how playing the piano helps with my disability and chronic pain, and the last 2 videos I’ve had copyright claims even though I wasn’t using the claimant’s specific music. If I switch to opensource music and label it as such, I’m hoping UA-cam will lay off me lol Thanks if anyone can help :)
Agree with all of these points! I’ve actually (nearly) switched entirely to Musescore as my primary notation software-though I’m curious about Dorico-waiting for the trial release to test it. Great video! *side note: I swear that was the Fort Pierce Kmart in your video! 😂*
I use musescore religiously. I've tried Sibelius, Noteflight, Finale, and others. Musescore has all the features of the professional software, but the functions are placed in such a way that you can create scores really easily.
Thanks! It’s a Rode NT-1A. It sounds good as long as I remember to turn of my AC, unfortunately in my latest video there’s a low wind rumble the whole time!
💥 Can I use musiscore to improvise at the piano, and it writes correctly ? Can I instruct what notes belong to a bar, when I play a rubato ? Most notation softwares are based on the clock for notation on tempo, but can I improvise freely and later organize where each group of notes should belong to a bar, distributing the notes correctly on the sheet music ? 😮
It was great when you could download songs from their website for free. As an educator, this was great to get a quick score for a group to play. No longer. $$$ now. NOT FREE. Why switch software when this feature is no longer an option?
Can musescore be used as piano learning practicing etudes? It doesn't have that game like feature that lets midi keyboard play acc to the score, right?
@@RyanLeach actually I saw this video of a guy using some script into it, piano tutor, to use it like the piano tutor ua-cam.com/video/2ORmydKdgfQ/v-deo.html -- It would have been great if they provide it in musescore, along with basic practices.
Merci for this. I just downloaded it and I'm too much of a Nooby to really need it. But it was cool to put in a Hand Independance exercise....which I'm starting to achieve.
Hey there! I had a question I was wondering if anyone would be able to answer for me. So I've been using a free composition site for a while now (not musescore, but similar) and I was wondering if it was worth it to switch to something like Sibelius, Finale, or Dorico for better sound quality? I'm wanting to go into composing professional pieces and I feel it would be easier for me to hear realistic audio samples.
i’m not an expert, but i would recommend sticking with your current composition/engraving site for now if you like it, but exporting the midi and using a DAW for the audio itself. engraving software isn’t really designed for professional level audio playback, and so i know a lot of people tend to use two separate programmes. unfortunately i can’t give any specific recommendations because DAWs aren’t my area, but i hope that helps!
if you're a college student (or have friends who are, lol) you can get sibelius or finale at a huge discount. combined with noteperformer (which if you pay for throughout a year, is fairly cheap monthly), you can create professional quality scores with amazingly realistic audio for under $300. using a DAW is another option, but it's a pretty different skillset compared to composing/notating.
One of my favorite things to do is to go to MuseScore and look up piano arrangements of some of my favorite songs, either from movies or shows or other
i realy like muse score but i have to tab things out for work and the tab has these silly white boxes behind the numbers making it useless when i scale it for the format we print in, if anyones got an idea onhow to remove the white box it would be much apriciated as i have been leaving the tab blank and doing it in photoshop which takes forever.
I switched to Musescore in 2016 because Powertab had not worked properly since Windows 7. Whilst I even now still find it slightly clunky for producing guitar tabs, you absolutely cannot beat the superbly beautiful "hybrid" tab (tab plus rhythm notation) it produces. As the versions go up, the sheet has become more and more beautiful... I love how the authors have managed to produce software for real musicians, but still support us simpler guitar tab folk 👍
My first notation software was the lite version of finale (Finale notepad). I was introduced to it in the early 2000's and spent a lot of free time in highschool composing hundreds of arrangements. Eventually I sprang for Allegro version, even though I wasn't writing professionally, because it was just that much fun. Some years later I got a computer savvy friend to bootleg me a copy of the full version with garritan VSTs for cheap. I found it so much more fun with more realistic sounding instruments. Eventually a friend overheard one of my compositions and asked me to write some music for her wedding. It was an honor to be asked to compose and produce music for an important venue like this. Fast forward to 3 years ago. I hadn't had time to play around with Finale in undergrad and between that and my computer dying on me I no longer had the software, but I still wanted to get back into it. That's when I discovered Musescore. It's quite amazing, and even though the playback isn't quite as lovely, the core notation is solid. I wish I had something like this in highschool when I was limited to 8 instruments on my lite version of Finale. I now notate for my church choir, providing sheet music for songs that don't have any and making prettier and easier to read sheet music for songs that do. I've also dived more into FOSS software as well, having Linux run on my business laptop and going open-source whenever I can (I made my business cards using gimp and edited my UA-cam videos on shotcut). Aside from being free, I love the fact that it's so much easier to find cross platform and customizable software when it is open-source. It doesn't rely on closed ecosystems. The community involvement is usually much greater as well. And the software is often surprisingly stable and fast. It's almost always worth the slightly less features to go open-source in my opinion. Especially since I've never exhausted the features in any of my software anyway.
I paid for a year upfront and have yet to see anything to show for it. I am VERY disappointed with Musescore 3 thusfare and would not recommend it to even to Putin.
I have stopped using musescore because it deleted soundfonts by itself I have tried to download musescore again deleted everything from month long projects to small items. I have tried to reinstall other soundfonts but to no avail. I can still open it and write small things but I have to go beethoven and not hear a thing. Before this happened I loved it and I used to to say I wouldn't mind paying for it, but now this is useless for me
@00:35 it means you have all the updates and upgrades during the year you are paying.... after that, you keep your software with no new updates until, you pay again for one year and ..... cycle...
Musescore is gonna win out in the long haul. I remember as a kid wanting to get into it and jumping from trial to trial of finale because I couldn't afford it. Musescore would have changed so much for me.
Sibelius First is so counterintuitive. I’ve tried to install it on 2 separate computers and even though the software is free, it will not allow me to use it, except in review. It’s rubbish!
I finally got a good recording in MP3 of a song I wrote on Piano almost 30 years ago. I have no Idea how to transcribe it, So I tried this... First, Musescore is not free. In order to import a PDF which I had to create elsewhere on Klangio which I also had to pay for, but then it also corrupted the PDF when importing and mangled the living hell out of the transcription which was probably also not accurate. But there's no way to tell since the score that showed up in Musecore doesnt even resemble the PDF I imported.😡
I used a bit of Sibelius and Finale back when I was in college, but never enough to really enough to be able to compare them to MuseScore. I definitely agree that its playback is kinda lacking, but I never found the program in general to be lacking for my needs as a casual composer.
Ok... sometimes it is WAY easier to write out notation compared to using recording software (it's so much easier to look at an actual score if I'm composing for an Orchestra). The problem is it sounds like hot garbage. How can I change the sounds? It seems pointless to have to write something out then completely redo it in recording software. What am I missing? At that point, it would be easier to just sit down at a keyboard with a physical piece of paper if I have to do it over again... I need an end result that sounds good enough to put into a game. I have to constantly switch between different genres and types of music; one project I might have to record and mix what is essentially a whole deathcore album, on the next project maybe I have to emulate a score like what you would hear in an old animated Disney movie, etc. I don't have the budget to hire a fucking orchestra... we're talking shoestring budgets here. Overall, I need a solution that is FAST. When you have to do ALL of the art and ALL of the animation and ALL of the sound effects and ALL of the music you're talking about spending YEARS. If I'm not efficient I'm dead in the water.
Only one question.... If I have 4 beats in a measure and I place 8 8th notes, than later I need to change one of the middle notes to a quarter note, how can I have the program slide everything to the right? Instead of deleting a note?
Another drawback: when you write large works it chrashes quite often, an then you may end up with: "bar 197, staff 15, expected length 4/4, written 1037/1433" That's not a joke. I know, noone uses such time signatures (all have a number dividable by 2 in the bottom, eg. 2 4 6, but it is theoreticaly possible to have bar 2/3, which gives you 2 halfnotes from a triple in a bar). There is only 1 way to repair it - delete that bar completely (Ctrl + Del) and write it once again (for every instrument). Then save it as PDF and don't touch it again, because it will continue getting worse (more mistakes, more complex metres). It is much safer to write large works in multiple smaller files (eg. I wrote my piano concerto in 25 files, it lasts aroun 35 minutes) and then to join them (actually I joined score in PDF format in PDF editor). Musescore is great but rather for smaller works, not for large works and ensambles. I asked about this problem on musescore community, but it seems noone had such problems (maybe only few people wrote large pieces and are no longer active in the community), so unfortunately noone replied. In other aspects it's great (maybe apart from the sound).
I’ve written large scores and the weird measure problem starts when cutting and pasting starting on a beat that shortens or lengthens the measure. You’re right about having to delete the measure itself (not just the content), which can be a lot of work, admittedly. I always keep my backups by renaming using the date so that corruptions are recoverable by opening the previous day’s work and cutting and pasting the better copy. If you don’t change the name, you can’t open the same name twice. I hope that makes sense. I love Musescore. Every time I look at the other big name notation software they just aren’t as smooth and easy to use.
There are sound libraries you can connect to pre4.0 versions to have really good playback. With 4.0 of course there are excellent options, but I’m still using 3.6 as a professional jazz/classical arranger and composer and currently have no reason to upgrade or use another editor
I am just starting to break open the piano and it's coming to life. I want software/app WHATEVER to help me write down my melodies. I'm starting to play by ear and I need to write it down better than the chicken scratch in a notebook. DO I HAVE TO HAVE A MIDI KEYBOARD? I have a beautiful acoustic piano and no keyboard. I don't want to be a producer; I just want to create a score.
I would love if you would make a video talking about your education whether you went to school or not for music and how you got started doing it professionally.
🎹 Write A Great COUNTER MELODY In Only 2 Steps ua-cam.com/video/DtB9UISGk2w/v-deo.html
Can Musecore convert Midi tracks into notation sheets?
@@zorroinhell5549 import them, add some dynamic/articulation markings, then profit
Regarding Note Performer: Martin Keary (a.k.a. Tantacrul), the new Product Manager for Musescore, is a big fan of Note Performer, and it's will known that Musescore's current playback is quite janky, so I suspect that Note Performer support is reasonably high on the priority list for Musescore 4
Yes, pretty sure it's comfirmed, Musescore will include vst support as well as a built in DAW/sequencer + Noteperformer support. I think the noteperformer crew have to step in for support, but it shouldn't take long I think, both Musescore 4 and Noteperformer support. I plan on buying Noteperformer once it's supported (other notation software are just too expensive for what they are worth)
It does seem that they've delayed support and it won't be in 4.0, based on an update post from summer, but it will most likely be only delayed until 4.1 if they can manage it
You’re not kidding about the janky factor. My playback controls have just disappeared from the interface and I cannot get them back
@@fannin8583 You might've snapped the controls segment of the interface off to some far corner of the screen where they are unretrievable. Just try to reinstall the program.
The only reason I don't currently use MuseScore is because its built-in virtual instruments don't sound very realistic. If it was able to use NotePerformer for playback, I would be much more likely to consider switching to MuseScore. (I'm currently using Notion, because it's relatively inexpensive and includes high-quality instrument samples for playback.)
I think the best about Musescore is its accessibility for blind users. The whole program is so good to use with screenreader software and a braille-display that I couldn't imagine something better, except the DAW Reaper which is also very accessible for blind people. So these two in combination are just perfect for composers with visual impairment.
Wow so cool!! I taught yoga for the braille institute for three years!
If there's ever a plugin or full DAW/notation program specifically geared towards the visually impaired they really ought to name it after Louis Vierne
That's funny. It has terrible keyboard shortcut support outside of the US keyboard. It doesn't read keys properly like software should, and instead reads the output like it's a GameMaker game.
But it's great that they've made it so it works great for blind users. I do really like that, since they are often forgotten. Still wished they could fix the keyboard issue too.
I like the diagram of the piano at the bottom. It helped me when a passage was full of ledgerlines, flats, sharps and naturals. I cheated.
How does it compare to using Sibelius? I'm on Mac and have been using Sibelius with Voiceover for about a year now.
One thing I actually like to do with musesore is write my pieces out so that they're visually pleasing, and then export the midi which I import into a DAW. (Mine is FL Studio) Then I can bring the sound to life some haha
Yea that’s definitely the way to do it no matter what app you’re using!
I import midi to learn to play the songs
Good point. The ability to export and import MIDI files and thereby use MuseScore in conjunction with a DAW is a work-around for MuseScore's playback shortcomings.
@@DGaryGrady yep I do the same .. would be nice to avoid the round trip .. let's hope that editor appears in Musescore :)
@@simonrigby2776 There's already a piano roll editor in the program, it just isn't too good for anything except for fixing messed up arpeggios and grace notes
If you look at what they have planned for v.4, I think its a good idea to get familiar with Musescore. I think its in good hands now.
I think point number 6 that I've learned after publishing the video is what big fans the users are!
MuseScore 4 is a massive rewrite and upgrade. The usability, engraving and playback have all been radically improved. So the case for using it is even more compelling.
There are more and more open source / free projects that reach ridiculous quality level. I do a lot of 3d modeling and rendering and "Blender" is outrageous. Not easy to get into it, but even has some (cool) features that none of the expensive paid software systems have.
Or just use Finale for the last 27 years like me ;-) No reason to change!
When I came to music arrangement (and more recently composition) 3 years ago, Sibelius was the professional choice and Finale was considered just too weird and complex. Finale suffered from the classic "first product" conundrum of being locked into early dodgy design decisions which couldn't be changed without breaking stuff. Sibelius learned from Finale's mistakes and Dorico has probably learned from both. I couldn't really justify the Sibelius cost as a hobbyist and thankfully discovered MuseScore. It does everything I need and certainly has a great community, plugins, training videos and plans for the future. The planned VST3 solution for version 4 should provide a listening experience as good as Note Performer gives.
The other notation system I tried was Notion. This comes free with the subscription for my DAW of choice (Studio One) and has good DAW integration. But it's just not polished and flexible enough for me. I usually have to move to MuseScore for the score to look good.
I am a retired software developer and have benefited from and contributed to a number of open source projects. And if/when I really get a bee in my bonnet about a missing MuseScore capability, I like the idea that I can roll my sleeves up and work on it myself - for my own benefit and that of other like me.
Finally I was excited to read that Tantacrul (Martin Keary) is now head of design at Muse, so the design and usability quality is definitely going just keep on going up!
VST
Probably the most exciting part of our plans include a new audio engine as well as VST support. We plan to implement integration with Steinberg's VSTi SDK, while making sure that our system will integrate with NotePerformer. To that end, we are in constant communication with the engineers from the NotePerformer team to ensure that the integration goes smoothly.
musescore.org/en/MuseScore4
Ah, so I heard from multiple people there’d be no NotePerformer support but they were misinformed?
From a software developer perspective I can see how that would be fun!
@@RyanLeach The most recent statement I have found is in musescore.org/en/node/319957 "Our Progress on MuseScore 4" (though it may be out-of-date) is:
Tantacrul • Apr 14, 2021 - 16:07In reply to What's the current plan for… by L'Moose
We have not built NotePerformer support in MuseScore 4.0. As mentioned above, we are working on something else. More updates to come soon.
Oh I see, the forum post Centurion Maximus posted is from 2020!
Note, if you’re a college student finale and sibelius have a MAJOR discount for students.
I paid 99$ for finale and only have to pay for upgrades.
And are far better. I didnt realize how bad muse score was for my writing ability till I used finale
I can't really confirm it, but Finale has a very bad reputation
@@prototypeinheritance515 its very confusing to use i'll admit that. (although everything you need is online) It can do a lot more then muse score can. I know as I started with it due to it being a lot cheaper. My teacher showed me the ropes and after using Finale for a bit I really do not want to go back to muse score
My writing ability was chocked from it.
@@metalmike3780 Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? I've found Musescore to have just about all the things I need when writing
@@nathanasher9139 so I transferred a song I made from muse score to finale and noticed a lot of slurs and other accidental were needed where there were none. In other words muse score put it there for me. Which seems great except if I'm writing for an orchestra it wont be accurate to what I want.
There where also a bunch of times my teacher was going into some more detailed sides one might occasionally use. Muse score did not have it available.
I'll admit it's far easier to access a lot of additions as well as its smoother when you right click drag. But after using finale for a bit I have a hard time going back to musescore
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nah, noteworthy composer is better
I have been using MuseScore since 2013, and each release just gets better. I have used MuseScore to typeset lieder, part songs, piano solo, piano quintet, string quartet and full symphony orchestra - all as transcriptions, either from manuscript or from Public Domain editions. The "engraving release" of MuseScore 3.6.2 introduced a much more professional look to scores.
Sure, I too would have been really glad to see integration with NotePerformer. But if the MuseScore developers can produce an equivalent which sounds as good in the upcoming MuseScore 4, I'll stop being grumpy and go with the flow.
"I'll stop being grumpy and go with the flow" is good advice for all of us!
If all you do is enter other people's already engraved sheet music, it's passable. You can literally just sit there appending the symbols you see in the original music, from left to right. Musescore is useless for editing music as a composer.
Version 4 is about to release, so I'd love to see what you think about the playback once it's out.
I've been asking for vst support for years, it'll be good to see it implemented. Big fan of Martin and glad to see his hard work paying off.
Wish Musescore could use proper keyboard shortcuts.
I should not have to pick my keyboard layout when I set it up. That's a sign of bad software. Especially since my keyboard layout isn't even an option.
I started using musescore when I was around 16, back when it was still with in the 1.0 version. To this day its way more intuitive than others. Sure the playback is rough, but for the price of free, so worth it to learn.
its even better now. literally everything has improved since this video. there is no reason to not use musescore other than already owning an industry standard software
Used MuseScore to listen to the difficult parts for playing trumpet, now i use it to learn to Play keyboard. You can also export your sheet Music to FL studio.
You cn improve the sound from MuseScore by quite a bit if you download a custom soundfont.
I've been using Musescore for over 8 years and despite having tried Sibelius and other programs, I still like Musescore the best by a long shot!
I've been using it that long too. Hopefully by the time 8 more years pass I'll have worked out how to use it! 😂 #uintuitive software
What types of music are you writing, Marja, and which features/capabilities or the workflow are more helpful to you?
3:22 Tbf, playback is only bad if you compare it to noteperformer and DAWs. As a student, Sibelius is provided for free to me, so I decided to try it out and see how it was, only to be horrified that unless you pay $120 for Note Performer, Sibelius's default sounds are straight from 90's MIDI, and can't even do single-note dynamics (e.g. decresndoing through a whole note) like MuseScore can.
Idk about you, but if I'm using notation software with no additional or external features and was selecting one for playback quality alone, I would go with MuseScore without question. The other softwares, as far as I can tell, don't come close to competing.
There are a few really annoying bugs in Musescore. Also, the program often don't start when I try to opne it. When it comes to the playback, the sound quality is WAY better than in Finale, which I have too and use. It's not even in the same league. It's more userfriendly and i'ts easier to adapt details. Some featuers are much better in Finale though like the copy and paste function, for instance. What I really miss in both programs is a function for switching two voices from two different staffs - that would be enourmously useful.
I bought Sibelius many years ago, mostly because of the comments and recommendations of a friend who was a professional copyist/arranger. I'm an amateur musician but wanted a decent notation program and used Sibelius enough to get reasonably comfortable. However, I didn't use it that much and found a number of things to be difficult (or impossible) to achieve. When I heard about Dorico (around version 2), I checked out a number of videos and decided the cost to switch was reasonable. Again, because I'm not a pro, I tend to use it sporadically and haven't yet become terribly proficient. However, I do find that whatever I want to do with it is easier and more straightforward than Sibelius. I do find having to use the eLicensor system a royal P.I.A. I'm about to get serious about learning and using the program regularly (now version 3.5) and will see how well I do over the next few months. At this point, the sound options are not critical, although nice to have. If it turns out I find them to be unimportant to what I do, I will probably look more closely at Musescore.
I made the switch from Sibelius to Dorico very recently and so far so good. I don't know if I'll ever do any Dorico focused content, but if there's something specific you'd like to see let me know!
I’ve been using MuseScore 4 Alpha and I think it is going to be very nice. Dorico 4.2 is buggy. So much so I asked for a refund. Finale is nice but it lacks a few things I like about the others and even on sale it is $300. But if I were to buy one Finale would be it. Sebilius is long in the tooth and needs a UI refreshing.
I’ve been using musecore forever, it got me into music like 8 years ago, it’s been around for a while
I've been wondering what people have in their heads when they put dictators and murderers of millions like Stalin on their avatars? Do you really think it's cool?
@@sashko-fomin do I think it’s cool, no, but I do think somebody online shouldn’t care about someone’s profile picture because, A, it doesn’t show any bit of my personality, B it’s an old dead dude, C I don’t care about the USSR and finally I’ve had the same picture for 5 years now, but yes I must say musecore is a nice notation software
@@danishdangler9223 It does show your personality, at least as an immature one and your reasoning is just proving that...
Sadly Musescore doesn't have VST support and its playback is subpar
@@sashko-fomin it shows my personality as immature…🤦, if you really think a picture of Stalin tells you about me then we definitely found the one that’s immature. Let alone that your actually trying to argue with someone in the UA-cam comments. As for musecores downsides, someone with actual skill at composing could learn to live with them.
@@danishdangler9223 I'm not trying to argue. I was just curious to know why people do it as I don't pick random "old dead dudes" for my avatars. You failed to explain. Your last argument that you've had this picture for 5 years was very "strong", just as the rest. I've made the conclusion. Period.
I think the reason why noteperformer support is not planned is because they are planning to add vst support and also the piano roll feature that you talked about is going to be added too.
I think "not clunky' does not do justice to how smooth and robust the graphics engine of Musecore is.
Also Musecore is extensively documented on you tube and the Musecore website.
I was originally a Sibelius 6 user, but couldn't justify the upgrade expense and switched to MuseScore a few years back as a result. Surprisingly, many task were actually easier and more straightforward and I've found the playback sounds usable in general (and, in some instances, even better than Sibelius 6.2). Because MuseScore is free, it was easy to get my fellow band members to download and start using the program too--which also proved very helpful. (The only other Sibelius user in the band left quite a while ago and I ended up having to do a lot of manual transcription work and PDF/MIDI exporting before making the switch.) MuseScore is a little buggy and missing some features I could really use (especially playback on numbered repeats, for which I've had an open request for probably two years or so), but I'm still quite happy to have made the jump.
This is something I think I'll look into. My last midi editor quit working because new windows version no longer supported it. I'm a hobbyist, so this looks like a choice. I really don't have the income to afford a professional grade package. For that matter, as long as I can transcribe sheet music, and have my computer play it back, at this time, that sounds like a great option for me.
I was introduced to MuseScore a while ago, and I have used it for some of my greatest written pieces. I love it.
What app would you guys recommend for taking an existing piece of sheet music and having it transcribed to a different key or instrument? I’m trying to save time and haven’t written in a while. I have an arrangement I like for tenor sax and want it transcribed for alto. I’ll actually be using both versions.
um i am not using this!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm just using what i've been taught thanks to orchestra class!!!!!!!!!!!!!! using musescore would be such a waste of time for me..................
From my experience and point of view, Muse Score is getting closer with playback and intuitiveness. The thing is that Sibelius is so efficient for what I do when it comes to note input and score formatting/engraving. To me, Muse Score is somewhat a mixture of Finale and Sibelius when it comes to note input and formatting: Finale was horrible at being intuitive but provided insane control over score formatting/engraving; Sibelius is so intuitive but had some formatting drawbacks.
I currently use MuseScore, I enjoy it very much.
Been trying to get funkier with it and push it's limits.
It's fun to learn things every now and then from other people, mentally running to MuseScore just to try them out.
It's been a wonderful learning tool for me, and I'd recommend it to other beginners like myself, or even just to slap down some random notes and think "Damn, I made some music." getting better over time.
Cool video, MuseScore is not perfect, but it is fun.
I got into writing music precisely because of MuseScore.
I think Musescore is the best software for music notation, and now with version 4.1 they improved a lot. The MS Sounds are far better than the soundfonts of version 3, but still not perfect. I use it in combination with Logic and works good.
The prices of all AVID products are extremely expensive and I'll never pay that much for a software. And also don't like the subscription system.
You can do a version of the video now that MS4 is out.
I like musescore. But version 4 has a problem. It's in the key signature section. It doesn't give you the one you want. For example I wanted a particular key, say D maj and it gave me a different key, I can't remember which now but it had more sharps than I needed. So I went back to V3. Let me know when it's fixed.
Interesting.
Does anyone know - is music on musescore Opensource? (ie free from copyright). I’ve started a UA-cam channel about how playing the piano helps with my disability and chronic pain, and the last 2 videos I’ve had copyright claims even though I wasn’t using the claimant’s specific music.
If I switch to opensource music and label it as such, I’m hoping UA-cam will lay off me lol
Thanks if anyone can help :)
Agree with all of these points! I’ve actually (nearly) switched entirely to Musescore as my primary notation software-though I’m curious about Dorico-waiting for the trial release to test it. Great video!
*side note: I swear that was the Fort Pierce Kmart in your video! 😂*
Yep, Musescore 4 is _amazing._ Came out a few days ago. Playback is a lot better. Everything is much better.
I use musescore religiously. I've tried Sibelius, Noteflight, Finale, and others. Musescore has all the features of the professional software, but the functions are placed in such a way that you can create scores really easily.
Sorry, but not EVERYONE. As for me - I couldn't succeed trying installing Musescore.
Three days go to the dogs.
And I'm not the only one.
Great video. Can I ask you what mic do you use? it sounds very good
Thanks! It’s a Rode NT-1A. It sounds good as long as I remember to turn of my AC, unfortunately in my latest video there’s a low wind rumble the whole time!
💥 Can I use musiscore to improvise at the piano, and it writes correctly ? Can I instruct what notes belong to a bar, when I play a rubato ? Most notation softwares are based on the clock for notation on tempo, but can I improvise freely and later organize where each group of notes should belong to a bar, distributing the notes correctly on the sheet music ? 😮
I think musescore would be perfect if it had better playback, mainly talking about mellophone, tromebone, and percussion midis
It was great when you could download songs from their website for free. As an educator, this was great to get a quick score for a group to play. No longer. $$$ now. NOT FREE. Why switch software when this feature is no longer an option?
Yamaha/Steinberg is in no danger of going out of business. The future of Dorico is bright. Finale and Sibelius are questionable, though.
Please Try the new MuseScore 4 with its free Muse Sounds... Amazing ! Don't need note performer anymore !
Can musescore be used as piano learning practicing etudes? It doesn't have that game like feature that lets midi keyboard play acc to the score, right?
Right, it's not a music learning app but is intended to be used for writing music
@@RyanLeach actually I saw this video of a guy using some script into it, piano tutor, to use it like the piano tutor ua-cam.com/video/2ORmydKdgfQ/v-deo.html -- It would have been great if they provide it in musescore, along with basic practices.
I can't even edit a simple melody (version 4.2). I must be doing something wrong.
MuseSore 4 has a 15gb dedicated library for playback and it sounds pretty good.
Merci for this. I just downloaded it and I'm too much of a Nooby to really need it. But it was cool to put in a Hand Independance exercise....which I'm starting to achieve.
Hey there! I had a question I was wondering if anyone would be able to answer for me. So I've been using a free composition site for a while now (not musescore, but similar) and I was wondering if it was worth it to switch to something like Sibelius, Finale, or Dorico for better sound quality? I'm wanting to go into composing professional pieces and I feel it would be easier for me to hear realistic audio samples.
i’m not an expert, but i would recommend sticking with your current composition/engraving site for now if you like it, but exporting the midi and using a DAW for the audio itself. engraving software isn’t really designed for professional level audio playback, and so i know a lot of people tend to use two separate programmes. unfortunately i can’t give any specific recommendations because DAWs aren’t my area, but i hope that helps!
if you're a college student (or have friends who are, lol) you can get sibelius or finale at a huge discount. combined with noteperformer (which if you pay for throughout a year, is fairly cheap monthly), you can create professional quality scores with amazingly realistic audio for under $300. using a DAW is another option, but it's a pretty different skillset compared to composing/notating.
It means that you can resume the contract in your next life and pay again 600 bucks xD
One of my favorite things to do is to go to MuseScore and look up piano arrangements of some of my favorite songs, either from movies or shows or other
I have installed MuseScore Studio version 4, but am unable to find the Palette. Is there a reason for this? Help, please.
Musescore 4 is a massive upgrade, but still has lots of technical bugs and issues.
i used to use flowkey but they JACKED the price since my last year (its also impossible to buy outright now)
I’m having success with Dorico 4 now.
Hola friend;
It's already two years that you published your video. How has the panorama changed with regard to the downsides of this app?
i realy like muse score but i have to tab things out for work and the tab has these silly white boxes behind the numbers making it useless when i scale it for the format we print in, if anyones got an idea onhow to remove the white box it would be much apriciated as i have been leaving the tab blank and doing it in photoshop which takes forever.
I switched to Musescore in 2016 because Powertab had not worked properly since Windows 7. Whilst I even now still find it slightly clunky for producing guitar tabs, you absolutely cannot beat the superbly beautiful "hybrid" tab (tab plus rhythm notation) it produces. As the versions go up, the sheet has become more and more beautiful... I love how the authors have managed to produce software for real musicians, but still support us simpler guitar tab folk 👍
My first notation software was the lite version of finale (Finale notepad). I was introduced to it in the early 2000's and spent a lot of free time in highschool composing hundreds of arrangements. Eventually I sprang for Allegro version, even though I wasn't writing professionally, because it was just that much fun. Some years later I got a computer savvy friend to bootleg me a copy of the full version with garritan VSTs for cheap. I found it so much more fun with more realistic sounding instruments. Eventually a friend overheard one of my compositions and asked me to write some music for her wedding. It was an honor to be asked to compose and produce music for an important venue like this.
Fast forward to 3 years ago. I hadn't had time to play around with Finale in undergrad and between that and my computer dying on me I no longer had the software, but I still wanted to get back into it. That's when I discovered Musescore. It's quite amazing, and even though the playback isn't quite as lovely, the core notation is solid. I wish I had something like this in highschool when I was limited to 8 instruments on my lite version of Finale. I now notate for my church choir, providing sheet music for songs that don't have any and making prettier and easier to read sheet music for songs that do. I've also dived more into FOSS software as well, having Linux run on my business laptop and going open-source whenever I can (I made my business cards using gimp and edited my UA-cam videos on shotcut). Aside from being free, I love the fact that it's so much easier to find cross platform and customizable software when it is open-source. It doesn't rely on closed ecosystems. The community involvement is usually much greater as well. And the software is often surprisingly stable and fast. It's almost always worth the slightly less features to go open-source in my opinion. Especially since I've never exhausted the features in any of my software anyway.
I also started with Finale, latter went to Sibelius.
Has anyone here had experience using Musescore with Studio One? Is there a plug-in or other software compatibility interface between them?
I'm a Linux user, I haven't used anything but Musescore in ages. I don't even know what Windows or Mac users use nowadays.
I paid for a year upfront and have yet to see anything to show for it. I am VERY disappointed with Musescore 3 thusfare and would not recommend it to even to Putin.
MuseScore isn’t available for IPad Air yet?
Why I don’t use it: no iPad support. Reader only, no composing or editing. Bad miss.
I have stopped using musescore because it deleted soundfonts by itself I have tried to download musescore again deleted everything from month long projects to small items. I have tried to reinstall other soundfonts but to no avail. I can still open it and write small things but I have to go beethoven and not hear a thing. Before this happened I loved it and I used to to say I wouldn't mind paying for it, but now this is useless for me
@00:35 it means you have all the updates and upgrades during the year you are paying.... after that, you keep your software with no new updates until, you pay again for one year and ..... cycle...
I like it, but when you get into selling sheet music. I would use something like Dorico, Finale, or Sibelius.
Musescore is gonna win out in the long haul. I remember as a kid wanting to get into it and jumping from trial to trial of finale because I couldn't afford it. Musescore would have changed so much for me.
Sibelius First is so counterintuitive. I’ve tried to install it on 2 separate computers and even though the software is free, it will not allow me to use it, except in review. It’s rubbish!
I finally got a good recording in MP3 of a song I wrote on Piano almost 30 years ago. I have no Idea how to transcribe it, So I tried this... First, Musescore is not free. In order to import a PDF which I had to create elsewhere on Klangio which I also had to pay for, but then it also corrupted the PDF when importing and mangled the living hell out of the transcription which was probably also not accurate. But there's no way to tell since the score that showed up in Musecore doesnt even resemble the PDF I imported.😡
I'm sorry you're having trouble. Note that musecore the notation software is not musescore the sheet music service
There's Sibelius and Dorico in iPad
Can I sell my music arrangements on Musescore? If no, where can I do it? Thank you!
I used to score on finale, when I went to university i moved to musescore and never went back.
Can I ask which you prefer? Dorico or Musescore?
We subscribe to PreSonus sphere so I get Notion with that, but it's so much more confusing than Musescore
I used a bit of Sibelius and Finale back when I was in college, but never enough to really enough to be able to compare them to MuseScore. I definitely agree that its playback is kinda lacking, but I never found the program in general to be lacking for my needs as a casual composer.
If it was compatible with iPad it would be perfect
What about finale? Or does that not exist anymore?
Ok... sometimes it is WAY easier to write out notation compared to using recording software (it's so much easier to look at an actual score if I'm composing for an Orchestra). The problem is it sounds like hot garbage. How can I change the sounds? It seems pointless to have to write something out then completely redo it in recording software. What am I missing? At that point, it would be easier to just sit down at a keyboard with a physical piece of paper if I have to do it over again... I need an end result that sounds good enough to put into a game.
I have to constantly switch between different genres and types of music; one project I might have to record and mix what is essentially a whole deathcore album, on the next project maybe I have to emulate a score like what you would hear in an old animated Disney movie, etc. I don't have the budget to hire a fucking orchestra... we're talking shoestring budgets here. Overall, I need a solution that is FAST. When you have to do ALL of the art and ALL of the animation and ALL of the sound effects and ALL of the music you're talking about spending YEARS. If I'm not efficient I'm dead in the water.
musescore 4 has much better sounds. Also Noteperformer for other notation software is pretty great
Can you write off line with it?So it's not up against being stolen by the internet
Can it have different key signatures and different time signatures in different staves in a score?
just get guitar pro for $60 great play back and easy to use
Only one question.... If I have 4 beats in a measure and I place 8 8th notes, than later I need to change one of the middle notes to a quarter note, how can I have the program slide everything to the right? Instead of deleting a note?
I think what you're looking for is called "insert mode" near the bottom of this page musescore.org/en/handbook/3/note-input-modes#timewise
Another drawback: when you write large works it chrashes quite often, an then you may end up with:
"bar 197, staff 15, expected length 4/4, written 1037/1433"
That's not a joke. I know, noone uses such time signatures (all have a number dividable by 2 in the bottom, eg. 2 4 6, but it is theoreticaly possible to have bar 2/3, which gives you 2 halfnotes from a triple in a bar).
There is only 1 way to repair it - delete that bar completely (Ctrl + Del) and write it once again (for every instrument). Then save it as PDF and don't touch it again, because it will continue getting worse (more mistakes, more complex metres).
It is much safer to write large works in multiple smaller files (eg. I wrote my piano concerto in 25 files, it lasts aroun 35 minutes) and then to join them (actually I joined score in PDF format in PDF editor).
Musescore is great but rather for smaller works, not for large works and ensambles.
I asked about this problem on musescore community, but it seems noone had such problems (maybe only few people wrote large pieces and are no longer active in the community), so unfortunately noone replied.
In other aspects it's great (maybe apart from the sound).
I’ve written large scores and the weird measure problem starts when cutting and pasting starting on a beat that shortens or lengthens the measure. You’re right about having to delete the measure itself (not just the content), which can be a lot of work, admittedly. I always keep my backups by renaming using the date so that corruptions are recoverable by opening the previous day’s work and cutting and pasting the better copy. If you don’t change the name, you can’t open the same name twice. I hope that makes sense. I love Musescore. Every time I look at the other big name notation software they just aren’t as smooth and easy to use.
Meter is correct spelling. Metre is 1/1000 th of a Kilometre.
EVERYONE?? I like lilypond.
im a begginer and i wanted to ask if its piano sheets are reliable or not.
But can it handel contemporary compositions?? Chamber ensemble large orchestral works, polyrhythms, multiple time signatures??
it can!
Ryan,
Do you know what VSTs it can accomodate? The playback is pretty good in Musecore 4.
this video is coming up on two years old, in 2023 I'd just say use Musescore 4
How does Muse Score compare to StaffPad?
That's the Kmart in Burbank! Hey!
There are sound libraries you can connect to pre4.0 versions to have really good playback. With 4.0 of course there are excellent options, but I’m still using 3.6 as a professional jazz/classical arranger and composer and currently have no reason to upgrade or use another editor
I am just starting to break open the piano and it's coming to life. I want software/app WHATEVER to help me write down my melodies. I'm starting to play by ear and I need to write it down better than the chicken scratch in a notebook. DO I HAVE TO HAVE A MIDI KEYBOARD? I have a beautiful acoustic piano and no keyboard. I don't want to be a producer; I just want to create a score.
You don't "need" a MIDI keyboard, but if you're already a competent piano player it will make entering notes WAY easier!
@@RyanLeach sorry for all the questions and thank you! Does this mean a microphone could listen and turn it into a score??
I don't know of a software that does that. I use the MIDI keyboard to enter the pitch I want.
can we get an update on this now that musescore 4 is out?
I would love if you would make a video talking about your education whether you went to school or not for music and how you got started doing it professionally.
Thanks Justin. It's not exactly "how I started" but I cover a bit of that in this video: ua-cam.com/video/ZQ9aP8Bzx2M/v-deo.html
Can I drag and drop the music and it write it out for me?