Dear all,
In the near future I will have to write a partiture for a romantic orchestra (so a lot of voices) as well as a partiture for a small quartett. On Windows I had Capella. I bought Finale Printmusic 2009 for OS X when changing to a Mac. It theoretically does contain all functions I need, but the program is so bug ridden and refuses to install on a clean OS X 10.6 system, that it is beyond usable. Paying for the update to PrintMusic 2010 to, hopefully, fix these issues seems quite impertinent to me. I collected some info on the internet on other programs, but wasn't able to find any satisfying information or even an up-to-date comparison.
So what would I need in a new notation program? I would need graphical input, about the range of notation features that Finale PrintMusic has, OCR import, import for my old Finale files and best would be japanese input and native mac app feeling. I would be willing to pay up to US$ 200 for such a program.
So far, I found the following notation programs, that might fit the bill (in no particular order):
Which one would you recommend and why? Would you recommend some other program and why?
Thank you for your kind help/comments in advance.
Yours
TheOtherGuy2000
In the near future I will have to write a partiture for a romantic orchestra (so a lot of voices) as well as a partiture for a small quartett. On Windows I had Capella. I bought Finale Printmusic 2009 for OS X when changing to a Mac. It theoretically does contain all functions I need, but the program is so bug ridden and refuses to install on a clean OS X 10.6 system, that it is beyond usable. Paying for the update to PrintMusic 2010 to, hopefully, fix these issues seems quite impertinent to me. I collected some info on the internet on other programs, but wasn't able to find any satisfying information or even an up-to-date comparison.
So what would I need in a new notation program? I would need graphical input, about the range of notation features that Finale PrintMusic has, OCR import, import for my old Finale files and best would be japanese input and native mac app feeling. I would be willing to pay up to US$ 200 for such a program.
So far, I found the following notation programs, that might fit the bill (in no particular order):
Which one would you recommend and why? Would you recommend some other program and why?
Thank you for your kind help/comments in advance.
Yours
TheOtherGuy2000