I've been using Sibelius for a long time, almost 15 years. "Sorry, I can't go out tonight I spent all my money on Sibelius." It helps you understand the plight of those who are less fortunate, since there's no better way to learn than by experience. It helps you avoid going out when you don't want to. Lilypond does not use a graphical interface but relies on you to enter the notes you want as a text file. Dorico is a new program and already produces amazing scores and will only get better. The latter is a graphical program (like Finale, Sibelius and Musescore) but borrows from Lilypond in that it tries to get everything right (spacing-wise) from the beginning instead of relying upon the user to tweak everything after entering it all in. Instead I would recommend either Lilypond or Dorico. They both have aging codebases and it's not clear that either is going to be significantly maintained and upgraded over the next ten years.
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If you really need professional quality scores that involve advanced techniques then it does appear that Musescore might not be the best fit for you.īut I wouldn't be so quick to jump on Finale or Sibelius. I would guess that there might be some other extreme cases like that. So that was one outlier case where Musescore wasn't able to keep up with the others.
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And in fact because the OP was doing some non-standard notation it might be kind of a questionable feature, but, of course, your engraving software should allow for as much craziness as possible. An obscure feature not needed very often. Musescore got very close but was missing a key feature. Lilypond, Finale or Sibelius (not sure which the original was done in), and Dorico all produced the desired results. It was not an organized effort just one we hoped would evolve over time. Over on r/composer we had hoped to do an ongoing series comparing various engraving programs (Finale, Sibelius, Lilypond, Dorico and Musescore) checking on capability, ease, how things look by default, etc.