Hi!
What kind of music software do you want? (I must make a software for my final project)

Lol, sibelius satisfies most of my needs, but it would be nice if it werent so precise when you are composing on it in freetime.

Something that is incredibly easy to use!

Are you talking about notating, sequencing, sampling or a combination?

A non-Graphical program that can export to MP3, ogg vorbis and midi as well as pdf. Also, reading most major types of file (MP3, ogg, midi, plus stuff like sibelius) and converting them to its own format. If it can take a pdf of music and make it in that format then that would be good, if ambitious.

I would just like a really easy-to-use program. Something like Finale Notepad but maybe make MIDI files as well. I have Anvil Studios on my computer, I haven't really used it much but I like it as well.

A good music OCR (one that produces output that takes less time to correct than inputting everything from scratch would have done) would be great, but I suspect may be more difficult than a notation program.

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sibelius is a good one to use, but they are so exepnsive.
my friend just bought Sibelius Student, i am jealous.

I can't stand sibelieus, and cubase isn't much good for score writing, so I'm badgering my music teacher to install lilypond on one of the computers at school!

Now jenny!!! lol.. that's blasphemy. And I love sibelius, have it at home and it's ace! I do agree though- it needs to have better compatability with other files types. You should definitely make it look snazzy oh and being able to import movie clips to sync to score!! What about including a multi-track feature for audio tracks? I haven't seen that in these types of software before!

Following a recent thread, I've spent hours playing around with Lilypond.

There is a huge collection of music at Mutopia created with Lilypond. But when you open the files, they're not compatible with the latest version.

I see the advantage of having templates. But the learning curve is so long, I've decided to give up. I just don't have time. I've also printed out scores created with Lilypond and compared them with Finale Notepad and Noteworthy Composer (NWC) - which I bought years ago but never used. What on earth is the advantage of Lilypond? I just don't see it.

Notepad is free, but I find it sooo irritating!! It's obviously a way of getting you to buy the proper Finale Printmusic. (Which I heard is very good!)

Finally I tried NWC again and discovered an online forum which is extremely helpful. The problem with NWC is that at first sight it looks cheap and nasty because of the way the staves continue horizontally instead of resembling a sheet of music. To see the whole page, you have to 'Print Preview'.

However, I'm slowly discovering that it's a lot more versatile than I thought and I'm pleasantly surprised. There's now a free patch that allows xml import and the forum helps a lot.

It's early days yet so I may change my mind again!

Steve

Theres a neat little function within lilypond that allows you to update files, although you have to update some of it by hand. Don't know how to use it on windows though. NWC composer is good, but I prefer non clicky programs.

I quite like Sibelius, I think that would satisfy most of my needs.