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Originally Posted by matt.guitarteacher
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08-28-2017 02:56 PM
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Dorico now supports chord symbols as of the 1.1 release in what seems like a much more detailed and intuitive way than Finale.
Why it took more than a year before this basic scoring element was added..................???
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Originally Posted by jzucker
I'd have to check to see if it's something you can tweak. The controls on these things are pretty nuanced. So there may be a way to change it. Also, it's open source. So even if it's not in the original, someone may have written a codec/patch etc, or you can request it as a feature etc, and someone may add the feature. Should be straightforward. Basically aligning like a chord symbol or a lyric etc.
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That looks pretty ugly. Just raw text...
Originally Posted by bako
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I agree, but the screen shot doesn't tell the story. It is a very flexible chord app that will allow the user to select
the font, chord spelling, spacing to preference. Unlike Finale, the methodology to get this done isn't one of the
great paradoxes of the universe.
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Originally Posted by mhch
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Originally Posted by jzucker
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+1 for Musescore.
Soundfonts work well and can be assigned to different instruments in a score.
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Originally Posted by jzucker
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Had a quick look at soundfonts on the Internet. Certainly not willing to criticize anything, I don't think they are at the level of those sound libraries that can be used with Sibelius or Dorico, both in variety and in terms of the amount of sampled data (some drum libs are measured in hundreds of GB, a VSL piano is 70GB). I know size doesn't imply quality and some excellent libs which are not sample based are relatively small.
Funnily available guitar sounds are not really at the quality level of other usual instruments, piano, horns, drums, bass !! That says a lot on the instrument.
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Originally Posted by mhch
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Originally Posted by EGad
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are there any examples? Just selecting the font, chord spelling and spacing doesn't make it comparable to finale. i love the finale chord library functionality although I agree it's tedious to setup but once you do, it's fantastic. you can put your accidentals in parens and stacked vertically on top of each other so that they don't look like this:
C7b9#9#11#5
Originally Posted by bako
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Originally Posted by EGad
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Originally Posted by jzucker
Anyway, I asked the question on their forum:
Snap all articulations to horizontal line. | MuseScore
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Being a Dorico registered user, I just received an email notifying me release 1.1.1 which adds a chord notation editor, which allows for specifying all possible attributes of a chord notation
Dorico 1.1.10 update released, with graphical chord symbol editor and more | MAKING NOTES
For sure this far superior over Sibelius, which only offers a simple panel of chord naming options. No doubt the Dorico team knows its job
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looks very similar to the finale chord editor. How does the musescore chord editor compare?
Originally Posted by mhch
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Originally Posted by jzucker
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Originally Posted by EGad
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in my case, finale works very well except for several annoying bugs, one of which is that it locks my audio card so I have to reset the audio card EVERY time I run finale. The 2nd bug is that the copy filter doesn't work properly copying to a tab staff so for example, if I set up articulations in a treble clef staff and then copy just the articulations to the tab staff, it overwrites everything in the tab staff, not just the articulations. Additionally frustrating is that makemusic refuses to acknowledge the issues and claims that they don't happen even though I've documented them with screen capture software.
Also, for 3 years, finale has added virtually no significant features. The latest version 25's biggest feature is that it's 64 bit which does nothing for me since I'm not doing 4gb symphonic pieces. I really worry that Finale and Sibelius won't be around in 3-4 years.
I'm definitely going to give musescore a try. Thanks to all who responded and Egad, great suggestions.
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Originally Posted by jzucker
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Originally Posted by EGad
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Watching this thread for the past week, I wanted to jump in to praise MuseScore (new build pending; musescore 3) and also to condemn Evilcorp (Avid) and Sibelius 7.
I'll skip all that.
Looks like I may be jumping back into orchestra teaching, and that would argue strongly for buying Dorico. Cross-grade price for educators is a deal...
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Hi, I have just installed Musescore and impressed so far.
Can anyone recommend a decent 'archtop' like soundfont,
Many thanks, Simon
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Originally Posted by jzucker
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