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- From: barrett@cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Any good scoring (sheet music) software out there?
- Date: 5 Jan 1996 23:28:25 GMT
- Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED
- Message-ID: <4ckc6p$m05@kernighan.cs.umass.edu>
- References: <w2qa5MDD4aoz5@tsb049.toschibo.ruhr.de> <1401.6573T1257T2395@loop.com>
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- In article <1401.6573T1257T2395@loop.com>, jcaesar <jcaesar@loop.com> wrote:
- >Actually, I've had DMCS and haven't used it in 4 years.. I've seen the DEMO
- >for DMCS.. and it's mostly the same. I stopped using Dr.T's copyist the
- >day I bought it. YUK.
-
- Deluxe Music 2.0 is a huge improvement over the original DMCS.
- See my review in the comp.sys.amiga.reviews archives,
-
- ftp://math.uh.edu/pub/Amiga/comp.sys.amiga.reviews/index.html
-
- It's still not a professional-level notation program though.
-
- >I've heard of a program called Notator-X from Hollyware and I've also heard
- >it isn't any good either.
-
- Notator-X is the worst piece of software I have purchased in
- 10 years. Don't buy it. It has more bugs than any commercial
- software product I have ever seen, and it is completely unusable.
-
- >My recommendation is to get your hands on either
- >ShapeShifter or EMPLANT. I can't speak for ShapeShifter, but Finale works
- >like a charm on EMPLANT. I believe another good one is Nightingale, and for
- >lower end users you can use Encore. There are a few others around too.
-
- I also think that using an emulator is the only way to get
- professional music notation on the Amiga at this time.
-
- Dan
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