Hello Musical Friends! Which program do you use? Why do you use it? I personally use Dorico. I love how strong it is for what I compose. Plus, there are some features (like the Jump bar) that help with my work flow. However, I recommend any program that works best for you. For most musicians, that will be MuseScore. However, double check whether each program is used in the way you want to use it. (For example, if you want to be published by a publishing company, you may not want to utilize MuseScore quite yet, as most publishing companies would want a Finale, Sibelius, or Dorico file at the moment. I am hoping that all changes soon!!!) Have a wonderful, musical day!
Dorico by a country mile. Flexible, comprehensive and built on a solid foundation. It's easy to use, sounds great (especially with NotePerformer) and produces top notch scores.
Hi I mean no ill-will, but the sound effects are a bit louder than your voice and adjusting the volume to hear you better just makes the sound effects too loud.
apologies for the older photos! While the information should still be accurate to MuseScore 4, things were overhauledd to ensure that future videos will have less image errors. Technology can always be an interesting time. Hopefully that clarified things, and have a wonderful, musical day!
I've used Dorico for some book/booklet instructions. Dorico has great text frames in the engraving settings that will allow users to format music and pages on the same page. I think Dorico makes this process quite easy. I haven't used the other programs to make a book/booklet. However, each of them will allow you to put text on a page. Each program's respective online forums may help you create booklets if you use any program, especially those outside of Dorico. Regardless of the program, you'll be able to export each file, take screenshots of the music, and compile it into a different document, where you'll be able to format the music and text as you see fit.
I've used Dorico for symphonic scores, time signature changes, and nonstandard chord spellings. I have also seen others use dorico for odd tuplets, tablature, and freely spaced chord changes!
what I would like to see is an experiment/competition: you need to enter a little music piece, say a one page Bach two voice invention, and let similarly experienced users enter the piece in their respective software and measure the time and amount of clicks/keystrokes needed to enter the piece. I believe GuitarPro would win and Finale would come last.
Is there any program that will import sheet music from a pdf file or at least be able to play it or transcribe it? I have this book in pdf and I want to be able to play the notes... Thank you!
A program like ScanScore (scan-score.com/en/) might be able to allow you to scan a pdf of music. After that, it looks like you can export the score for further notation and processing in musescore, dorico, sibelius, finale, and more. There may be more programs, but I am not as familiar with them. Hopefully this helps somewhat!
I think that it's way better for to not mention prices of the applications compared. Why, because it's kinda quite another aspect that might be not important for most people, who can efford anything. The prices change so fast and there may be different discounts. That's why it's better to more focus on their features and capabilities
Notion 6 is great, but it's pretty buggy at times and lacks some features that it's competitors have. Unfortunately PreSonus seem to have abandoned Notion 6 altogether. They seem to be focusing on their DAW and only update the mobile version of Notion. I want to keep using Notion 6, but it's been a long time since the last update and there is no sign of Notion 7 being in development. It's such a shame, but I feel like I'm forced to switch to another software. That's why I'm here.
From what I could find, Sibelius has very tiny updates every once in a while. These are mainly to keep up with operating systems, with the potential to add 1-2 quality of life updates. Here's a link to what I could find to some updates Sibelius has had recently: resources.avid.com/SupportFiles/Sibelius/2024.6/Whats_New_in_Sibelius.pdf It really isn't too much, but it's enough to keep Sibelius functionable in future operating systems!
Rip Finale, Sibelius Ultimate is $200/yr and you need to buy separate sounds to export as an mp3, Dorico is great but musescore 4 is free, I use musescore 4 on my pc but Dorico SE on my tablet
I know this video post is older, but my comment is for those curious of NotePerformer who is not yet convinced. Follow the link here and discover the magic of NotePerformer. I cannot recall any VST sounding like a recording like this. The music in the linked video was produced by Dorico 5.1 Pro driving NotePerformer 4.5.0. (NO affiliation) The music performance can still be tweaked using Dorico's MIDI lanes, but the listener will definitely hear how NotePerformer is not this 'in-between', medium quality VST as some claims. NotePerformer has a lot of power, if one knows how to use its magic! 🙂 ua-cam.com/video/QfHQ5ZM4BaE/v-deo.html
Editing looks great, but can we get actual price numbers on the screen instead of random clips of money falling? Also, a comparison table of the prices and different features as you talk about them? I was hoping for your personal opinion on each of these, but it doesn't sound like you used any of them, it sounds like you're reading off of each of the websites. I have been using Finale since I learned it in high school 5... 15 years ago? Damn, I'm old now. I just went to see what the latest version of Finale is, the last time I bought it was 2014, and not the full version of it. Surprise! Finale no longer exists. I think it's recent since this video.
You forgot to mention that Musescore supports microtonal music, harp notations, exotic notations(such as different types of accidentals from different regions of the world), can load VST3s, and much more to discover.
@@TheMusicalNotesOfficial Yup, and recently muse hub has been updated to V2, thus musescore can now use paid libraries such as berlin orchestra, or orchestral tools, or spitfire orchestra, specially adapted for musescore's playback engine.
@@TheMusicalNotesOfficial yes, but it takes me a lot of time guessing how to do everithing, and o ly for 2 instruments the free version, so I think I will use it for little projects or taking notes on the fly, and big works at home with musescore
Great video, thank you very much. As a soon-to-be professional film and media composer, I'm very tempted by either Sibelius or Dorico. Actually, I don't know if using Dorico may be a problem since it is not an industry standard (yet). Just two more things not related, if I may (please don't take it bad, I'm just giving some suggestions in a friendly manner): 1. I understand you want to make your video as short as possible to remain attractive, however this is a pretty dense with lots of things to say and you speak very, very fast. There are a few times when I had to switch the subtitles on to understand what you say. Maybe you could try and speak a little slower. 2. The way your microphone captures your voice makes it pretty high-pitched. Coupled with your speaking fast, it makes the whole a bit tough to listen to. You should consider adding a compressor and maybe a tad of reverb to your audio input, which will make things nicer and more comfortable. There are some free softwares than can do it. Anyway, once again, this is great content, much appreciated. 🙂
Thank you for the feedback and for appreciating the video! I'm always trying to improve, and audio is something I do struggle with as you can tell. I'll do my best to take the feedback you gave and implement it! Have a wonderful, musical day!
Stephanie is being kind. I would be pretty offended by this comment. Complaining that a woman's "high-pitched" voice is "tough to listen to" is pretty sexist, no matter how you intend it. (Don't take that bad, I'm just giving suggestions in a friendly manner.) If it's too fast, UA-cam also has this great .5x speed feature.
@@bgclarinet Read again carefully what I wrote. I didn't say her voice was high-pitched. I said the way her microphone captures her voice makes it so. In other words, it is not her fault. This is a pretty common thing with microphones by the way, because most of them will cut the higher and lower frequencies so that sound remains in the middle range and doesn't damage whatever speakers you use. Only the professional microphones are set to record a wider range, but they're much more expensive. That is why a lot of people, no matter if they're women or men, equipped with more affordable microphones will add a compressor plugin that gives a rounder, deeper, nicer sound to their voice. Anyway, if you read Stephanie's reply, she doesn't seem to be particularly offended since she thanked me in the most lovely manner. Stop watching the world with crazy sexist glasses and just read what people wrote, not what you want to understand. This is constructive criticism, not whatever bashing that mean people are so much used to. And thank you for the playing speed tip! 🙂 I knew UA-cam could play videos faster, but I hadn't noticed it could also play them half-speed. Have a nice day!
@@vincentdargere No problem. I'm sure you're right, that since she thanked you and was polite there's no way she could have been offended. Just point me to the videos of men talking where you have made the same unsolicited criticisms and that will clear things right up.
@@bgclarinet Look, it's not because being offended is the new sports some people love to play that it is a common and absolute criterion. If you don't accept criticism, you'll never make any progress. That's what I learnt when I was a kid. I'm still taking criticism every day and I've come to see the advantage in receiving it. Like right here, your criticism just tells me that I'm not diplomatic enough and that my words can hurt some people. This is duly noted. However, I never intended to offend her and tried to say things kindly. If my words hurt her, maybe let her say it herself instead of speaking on her unsolicited behalf. Thank you.
updated video with clearer audio is coming soon! Hopefully utilizing the captions and slowing the video down to 0.5x or 0.75x speed helps for this video though!
"Sibelius is known for its intuitive and user-friendly interface" LOL what a joke. Is this video AI or something? Sibelius sucks and is notoriously poorly laid out. Those screenshots are of musescore 3 which is a wildly different application than musescore 4. and at 2:56 and 4:41 why are we showing a picture of musescore 4 when talking about sibelius? did you do any research at all or just put some vague prompt into chat gpt?
Hello! Throughout my video editing process, I have gotten better. When making this video, some photo files were unfortunately labeled incorrectly, which lead to the MuseScore 3/4 debacle. While Sibelius is not great, it is one of the better programs. Apologies for disappointing! Have a wonderful, musical day!
@@TheMusicalNotesOfficial Hi! Sorry to barge in. Looking for any programs that might be similar to the good ol' Encore, the one my father used to work with. I was thinking of trying out Finale, until I saw this comment. 😬 Do you have any ideas of a current software that could be a good replacement for Encore? (which stopped updating and is basically impossible to purchase now)
I haven't worked with Encore, so I don't know the best switch between Encore and other notation programs. However, there are a lot of online support options for those switching to Sibelius, Dorico, and MuseScore. Sibelius and Dorico do have free trials for newer users, which would be a great way to try them out! I personally use Dorico, so I am a bit biased towards that program. However, all three of those options are solid, and are probably the most used programs at the moment. Hope this helps!
Hello Musical Friends! Which program do you use? Why do you use it?
I personally use Dorico. I love how strong it is for what I compose. Plus, there are some features (like the Jump bar) that help with my work flow.
However, I recommend any program that works best for you. For most musicians, that will be MuseScore. However, double check whether each program is used in the way you want to use it. (For example, if you want to be published by a publishing company, you may not want to utilize MuseScore quite yet, as most publishing companies would want a Finale, Sibelius, or Dorico file at the moment. I am hoping that all changes soon!!!)
Have a wonderful, musical day!
Dorico!
Musescore!
I use MuseScore because it was my first
Dorico by a country mile. Flexible, comprehensive and built on a solid foundation. It's easy to use, sounds great (especially with NotePerformer) and produces top notch scores.
I personally use Dorico and I use it for many reasons you stated! It's a great program.
Interesting choice.
Hi I mean no ill-will, but the sound effects are a bit louder than your voice and adjusting the volume to hear you better just makes the sound effects too loud.
You're all good! I appreciate the feedback, as I'm always working to make the videos better.
Have a wonderful, musical day!
I don't understand why screenshots of older versions of Muse Score were used, as opposed to only screenshots of MuseScore 4.
apologies for the older photos! While the information should still be accurate to MuseScore 4, things were overhauledd to ensure that future videos will have less image errors. Technology can always be an interesting time.
Hopefully that clarified things, and have a wonderful, musical day!
Which one can you use for books or booklet instructions, where you explain music theory and also include the snippet of the stave notation
I've used Dorico for some book/booklet instructions. Dorico has great text frames in the engraving settings that will allow users to format music and pages on the same page. I think Dorico makes this process quite easy. I haven't used the other programs to make a book/booklet. However, each of them will allow you to put text on a page.
Each program's respective online forums may help you create booklets if you use any program, especially those outside of Dorico.
Regardless of the program, you'll be able to export each file, take screenshots of the music, and compile it into a different document, where you'll be able to format the music and text as you see fit.
Can Dorico handle symphonic scores, simultaneous odd tuplets, Time signature changes, tablature, Freely spaced chord changes and nonstandard chord spellings?
I've used Dorico for symphonic scores, time signature changes, and nonstandard chord spellings. I have also seen others use dorico for odd tuplets, tablature, and freely spaced chord changes!
what I would like to see is an experiment/competition: you need to enter a little music piece, say a one page Bach two voice invention, and let similarly experienced users enter the piece in their respective software and measure the time and amount of clicks/keystrokes needed to enter the piece. I believe GuitarPro would win and Finale would come last.
Is there any program that will import sheet music from a pdf file or at least be able to play it or transcribe it? I have this book in pdf and I want to be able to play the notes... Thank you!
A program like ScanScore (scan-score.com/en/) might be able to allow you to scan a pdf of music. After that, it looks like you can export the score for further notation and processing in musescore, dorico, sibelius, finale, and more.
There may be more programs, but I am not as familiar with them. Hopefully this helps somewhat!
@@TheMusicalNotesOfficial Musescore has a pdf to Musescore tool and a Musescore importer.
Thanks for speaking fast and coming to the point, I mean it.
Finale, turns out, was not the best lol
I'm so upset
I think that it's way better for to not mention prices of the applications compared. Why, because it's kinda quite another aspect that might be not important for most people, who can efford anything. The prices change so fast and there may be different discounts. That's why it's better to more focus on their features and capabilities
I think the best of all is Notion 6, because in more lightly y easy to learn fast.
Notion 6 is great, but it's pretty buggy at times and lacks some features that it's competitors have. Unfortunately PreSonus seem to have abandoned Notion 6 altogether. They seem to be focusing on their DAW and only update the mobile version of Notion. I want to keep using Notion 6, but it's been a long time since the last update and there is no sign of Notion 7 being in development. It's such a shame, but I feel like I'm forced to switch to another software. That's why I'm here.
I thought Sibelius wasn't being updated anymore?
From what I could find, Sibelius has very tiny updates every once in a while. These are mainly to keep up with operating systems, with the potential to add 1-2 quality of life updates.
Here's a link to what I could find to some updates Sibelius has had recently: resources.avid.com/SupportFiles/Sibelius/2024.6/Whats_New_in_Sibelius.pdf
It really isn't too much, but it's enough to keep Sibelius functionable in future operating systems!
Are you thinking of the recent news that Finale is done?
Rip Finale, Sibelius Ultimate is $200/yr and you need to buy separate sounds to export as an mp3, Dorico is great but musescore 4 is free, I use musescore 4 on my pc but Dorico SE on my tablet
I know this video post is older, but my comment is for those curious of NotePerformer who is not yet convinced. Follow the link here and discover the magic of NotePerformer. I cannot recall any VST sounding like a recording like this. The music in the linked video was produced by Dorico 5.1 Pro driving NotePerformer 4.5.0. (NO affiliation) The music performance can still be tweaked using Dorico's MIDI lanes, but the listener will definitely hear how NotePerformer is not this 'in-between', medium quality VST as some claims. NotePerformer has a lot of power, if one knows how to use its magic! 🙂
ua-cam.com/video/QfHQ5ZM4BaE/v-deo.html
Editing looks great, but can we get actual price numbers on the screen instead of random clips of money falling?
Also, a comparison table of the prices and different features as you talk about them?
I was hoping for your personal opinion on each of these, but it doesn't sound like you used any of them, it sounds like you're reading off of each of the websites.
I have been using Finale since I learned it in high school 5... 15 years ago? Damn, I'm old now.
I just went to see what the latest version of Finale is, the last time I bought it was 2014, and not the full version of it.
Surprise! Finale no longer exists. I think it's recent since this video.
You forgot to mention that Musescore supports microtonal music, harp notations, exotic notations(such as different types of accidentals from different regions of the world), can load VST3s, and much more to discover.
MuseScore does have a LOT to offer!
@@TheMusicalNotesOfficial Yup, and recently muse hub has been updated to V2, thus musescore can now use paid libraries such as berlin orchestra, or orchestral tools, or spitfire orchestra, specially adapted for musescore's playback engine.
I use Musescore, but in it doesn’t works on ipad, so i’m starting to learn dorico too
I currently love using Dorico, so I hope it works out for you on iPad!
@@TheMusicalNotesOfficial yes, but it takes me a lot of time guessing how to do everithing, and o ly for 2 instruments the free version, so I think I will use it for little projects or taking notes on the fly, and big works at home with musescore
that sounds like a great plan!
Great video, thank you very much. As a soon-to-be professional film and media composer, I'm very tempted by either Sibelius or Dorico. Actually, I don't know if using Dorico may be a problem since it is not an industry standard (yet).
Just two more things not related, if I may (please don't take it bad, I'm just giving some suggestions in a friendly manner):
1. I understand you want to make your video as short as possible to remain attractive, however this is a pretty dense with lots of things to say and you speak very, very fast. There are a few times when I had to switch the subtitles on to understand what you say. Maybe you could try and speak a little slower.
2. The way your microphone captures your voice makes it pretty high-pitched. Coupled with your speaking fast, it makes the whole a bit tough to listen to. You should consider adding a compressor and maybe a tad of reverb to your audio input, which will make things nicer and more comfortable. There are some free softwares than can do it.
Anyway, once again, this is great content, much appreciated. 🙂
Thank you for the feedback and for appreciating the video!
I'm always trying to improve, and audio is something I do struggle with as you can tell. I'll do my best to take the feedback you gave and implement it!
Have a wonderful, musical day!
Stephanie is being kind. I would be pretty offended by this comment. Complaining that a woman's "high-pitched" voice is "tough to listen to" is pretty sexist, no matter how you intend it. (Don't take that bad, I'm just giving suggestions in a friendly manner.) If it's too fast, UA-cam also has this great .5x speed feature.
@@bgclarinet Read again carefully what I wrote. I didn't say her voice was high-pitched. I said the way her microphone captures her voice makes it so. In other words, it is not her fault. This is a pretty common thing with microphones by the way, because most of them will cut the higher and lower frequencies so that sound remains in the middle range and doesn't damage whatever speakers you use. Only the professional microphones are set to record a wider range, but they're much more expensive. That is why a lot of people, no matter if they're women or men, equipped with more affordable microphones will add a compressor plugin that gives a rounder, deeper, nicer sound to their voice.
Anyway, if you read Stephanie's reply, she doesn't seem to be particularly offended since she thanked me in the most lovely manner. Stop watching the world with crazy sexist glasses and just read what people wrote, not what you want to understand. This is constructive criticism, not whatever bashing that mean people are so much used to. And thank you for the playing speed tip! 🙂 I knew UA-cam could play videos faster, but I hadn't noticed it could also play them half-speed. Have a nice day!
@@vincentdargere No problem. I'm sure you're right, that since she thanked you and was polite there's no way she could have been offended. Just point me to the videos of men talking where you have made the same unsolicited criticisms and that will clear things right up.
@@bgclarinet Look, it's not because being offended is the new sports some people love to play that it is a common and absolute criterion. If you don't accept criticism, you'll never make any progress. That's what I learnt when I was a kid. I'm still taking criticism every day and I've come to see the advantage in receiving it. Like right here, your criticism just tells me that I'm not diplomatic enough and that my words can hurt some people. This is duly noted. However, I never intended to offend her and tried to say things kindly. If my words hurt her, maybe let her say it herself instead of speaking on her unsolicited behalf. Thank you.
Any notation program that does not include swing playback is less than useless fpr big band arrangers.
I found it really hard to understand this video. It's just too fast and needs better diction.
updated video with clearer audio is coming soon!
Hopefully utilizing the captions and slowing the video down to 0.5x or 0.75x speed helps for this video though!
"Sibelius is known for its intuitive and user-friendly interface" LOL what a joke. Is this video AI or something? Sibelius sucks and is notoriously poorly laid out. Those screenshots are of musescore 3 which is a wildly different application than musescore 4. and at 2:56 and 4:41 why are we showing a picture of musescore 4 when talking about sibelius? did you do any research at all or just put some vague prompt into chat gpt?
Hello! Throughout my video editing process, I have gotten better. When making this video, some photo files were unfortunately labeled incorrectly, which lead to the MuseScore 3/4 debacle.
While Sibelius is not great, it is one of the better programs.
Apologies for disappointing! Have a wonderful, musical day!
@@TheMusicalNotesOfficialReally surprised how much you keep being kind and cute. *hug ^___^*
The sound of the commentator is terrible!
Planning on creating a new video with better audio ASAP!
I can tell you now, for sure, FINALE is NOT the Best Software. They're done as of 4 hours ago, with limited support moving forward.
I heard and that is CRAZY! I for sure didn't think that Finale being done would happen like this. Wishing the best for all current Finale users!
@@TheMusicalNotesOfficial Hi! Sorry to barge in. Looking for any programs that might be similar to the good ol' Encore, the one my father used to work with.
I was thinking of trying out Finale, until I saw this comment. 😬
Do you have any ideas of a current software that could be a good replacement for Encore? (which stopped updating and is basically impossible to purchase now)
I haven't worked with Encore, so I don't know the best switch between Encore and other notation programs. However, there are a lot of online support options for those switching to Sibelius, Dorico, and MuseScore. Sibelius and Dorico do have free trials for newer users, which would be a great way to try them out!
I personally use Dorico, so I am a bit biased towards that program. However, all three of those options are solid, and are probably the most used programs at the moment.
Hope this helps!