stefkeB

I'm investigating (again) a good approach to create scores. I have so many small scribbles and compositions, which have their own distinct look on paper, but I want to eventually digitise them as real scores.

I have been trying some basic score layouting with Cubase SE from Steinberg, which gives only basic control.

I also installed Finale Notepad, a freeware version of the commercial Finale application, which has good notation features, but it severely lacks some important tools from the commercial version: MIDI import, to only name one. I might try one of the more extended versions, which are still cheap.

There are a multitude of fairly cheap applications, such as Noteworthy Composer, which can import MIDI files, but the overall control is then again fairly limited.

And there are Open Source scripting solutions, such as Lilypond, which allows you to do some fairly sophisticated scoring, but ... you have to type it as code. There are some additional Python scripts, e.g. to import MIDI, but it wasn't succesfull for the one I tried lately.

Anyway, it's a huge undertaking, with so little time to do it properly, I still imagine just scanning the snippets and use them as is...

Here is a small example of me learning it to layout 'nine years', an unfinished progressive rock song, which I hope will be listenable before the end of the year.