It depends on your motives for using the software. You've definitely helped me with the final decision, now it's whether I chose Sibelius like originally stated or something like Finale or Dorico. I might see what Musescore 4 offers down the line, but I don't think I could wait long enough to see what new options and viability would come in a professional setting while I have the money. With the research I was doing on Sibelius, Notepreformer seemed to be the best alternative to using a DAW, due to my lack of experience, until I am able to learn more about MIDIs in DAWs. so having that extra bit of notation ability is very important as well, if not more so then the sound (I try to hear what I'm writing before I play it back on the program anyway, the program just helps with some small semblance of reference tones/tambre/dynamics without people playing the instruments). My personal main issue with Musescore right now is the sound, but I realize now with more reading that it might also be limiting my options when it comes to larger scale pieces, formatting, options, etc. How long can you wait, will MuseScore 4's sequencer and VST support work for you or would you be satisfied with the easier (presumably) NotePerformer, and, of course, your overall financial situation.
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That plus what you are comfortable with sound-wise (DAWs vs NotePerformer) are I guess the biggest factors for you. But it is under active development so I also wouldn't expect it to take more than a year. Given that MuseScore 4 was announced fairly recently, I wouldn't expect it to be released anytime soon. So I really don't have a definitive answer for you.
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If you don't know how to use a DAW and have no interest in that rabbit hole then NotePerformer would appear to be perfect for you which means you'll probably have to move to Sibelius (or Finale or Dorico). I've never used NotePerformer and don't know much about it, but it looks like it provides an alternative to having to use a DAW to get good sounds. If you are able to produce excellent looking scores with MuseScore then MuseScore 4 will be an improvement and it's hard to justify, in your case, the move to Sibelius based on that criterion. Whether these notation features matter to you is a different story, of course.
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That's a pretty standard workflow regardless of which notation software someone uses.Īs for notation features, Sibelius will remain ahead of MuseScore for a while if for no other reason than Sibelius is really, really old and MuseScore is still quite young.
Whether NotePerformer will ever work with it is unknown.īut even as of now, if you don't like the MuseScore sounds then you can take the MIDI file and manipulate it in a DAW with all sorts of VSTs and get much, much better sounds. He is improving the user experience all over MuseScore but is not necessarily adding features.īased on what you said, if the main issue with MuseScore is with the sound, then the next version of MuseScore does promise to improve that situation by adding a sequencer and support for VSTs. Just to be clear, Tantacrul is a user interface designer.