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- From: dickow@raven.csrv.uidaho.edu (dickow)
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- Subject: Re: Any good scoring (sheet music) software out there?
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 04:37:31 GMT
- Organization: University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
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- Dan Barret replied:
- >>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.
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- > I also think that using an emulator is the only way to get
- >professional music notation on the Amiga at this time.
-
- Quite right, Dan. What's sad and ironic is that a few years ago I talked to
- the Coda people (Finale) at a professional meeting and asked if they had
- plans to port Finale to the Amiga (of course I knew the answer already), but
- they said that didn't think the Amiga was 'fast enough' to run Finale. Ha!
- I run Finale just fine on my Amiga emulator (AMax). Best to have a zippy Amiga
- (or Mac) though, since Finale is relatively very sluggish even on the native
- Mac.
-
- No one has mentioned Copyist Pro (Dr.T's), which is now unsupported but might
- still be available. With PostScript output it could look ok, but its UI
- and features list was a real train wreck.
-
- There just isn't enough demand in the Amiga world to support development of a
- really fine music notation package, such as Finale, et al. Too bad.
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