Okay, so I tried the Notion App for iPhone. Like the fretboard input and the fact that it generates tablature, and the guitar playback sound is indeed better. But I found using it a little challenging on the small iPhone screen: there seems to be some bug, perhaps associated with the Select function, and when I exported to xml and then imported to MuseScore it turned out a little bit messy. Some of this has to do with the way MuseScore handles the transposing by using the treble clef with an 8 under it. In any case my MuseScore skills have gotten better and using a linked tab staff there is pretty easy as well. Read good things about the Notion desktop app, but probably not going to pony up any time soon and look forward to MuseScore 3.
― Stars on 45, Where Are You? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link
The select function is very fussy, probably the most annoying part of the notion iOS experience for me. I wouldn't call it buggy but it can take me a bit to get the group of notes I want highlighted.
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
Are you using on iPhone or iPad?
― Stars on 45, Where Are You? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:40 (seven years ago) link
Both. Mostly phone, but it syncs all projects between the two so sometimes I pick up something on the iPad for a bit.
I haven't fucked with the guitar tablature side of things much though, mostly writing inept orchestral stuff (though often using the fretboard UI to make note choices)
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
Also, one of the other funny things about the Select is that it is both the Select itself and a way to get to a subpallete. Still haven't figured out how to distinguish how to get the one or the other.
― Stars on 45, Where Are You? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link
Finally, kind of annoying that I can only read the help pdf from within the app, can't really find one in to read outside the app.
― Stars on 45, Where Are You? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:45 (seven years ago) link
Okay, got better at some stuff over the weekend, but adding Fretboard Diagrams from the default palette and then altering is tedious. Will need to customize.
― Stars on 45, Where Are You? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 12:59 (seven years ago) link
For reference:http://www.georgehess.net/notation-wars/
― How I Wrote Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 December 2016 13:44 (seven years ago) link
http://www.sibeliusblog.com/news/behind-the-scenes-with-dorico-musescore-and-a-finale-font-tool/
― How I Wrote Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 December 2016 13:46 (seven years ago) link
Entering fingerings and barre indications still the most tedious aspect.
― How I Wrote Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link
Have you considered going the fully masochistic route and trying Lilypond?
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
Ha, no, what is that?
― How I Wrote Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 15:03 (seven years ago) link
It's a score typesetting system that uses plain text markup and was I think originally based on some music packages for TeX, I tried it out a little and it's not that bad for typing in notes, at least.
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 15:08 (seven years ago) link
Have you tried music21? It has a tinynotation mode that instantly generates the xml for notes.
― How I Wrote Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link
Back to MuseScore. Note input page for handy reference: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/note-input
― Louder Than Borads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2017 15:39 (seven years ago) link
Upgraded to 2.1 recently. Still resisting the siren song of Sibelius.
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 June 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
while sibelius and finale are great for music notation, i think logic pro x works really well, as well, especially if you're bringing in non-classical instruments into the mix and actually recording
― the sound of space, Monday, 19 June 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
Native support for Roman numeral analysis and Nashville notation
― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 November 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
Saw the video on that, not sure how much I will use, but some other workflow improvements look pretty sweet
― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 November 2019 23:31 (four years ago) link
Keep hearing about Dorico these days.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 August 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
Just starting using again after a break. Lots of improvements in the latest edition,
― And Then There’s Maudit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 December 2020 01:02 (three years ago) link