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Software confusionDate: September 22, 2012 by Donna Ransdell  Views: 1637
At the moment, I am using school-owned Finale Allegro 2005. My normal uses for this are to input piano accompaniments and parts (by hand) for students to use in class and at home to practice. These are turned into .mid files which are converted to .m4a via iTunes. It's rather time-consuming, with a choral octavo taking 2-4 hours to input one-note-at-a-time. The computer that this is installed on, is starting to show signs of giving up the ghost (it's as old as the program, or maybe older). The original Finale Allegro disk has disappeared into Software Heaven, so I'm thinking about replacing it.
I like Finale, but find that Allegro is no longer made. The professional version is probably more than I need, and at its price, it's definitely more than I personally can afford. PrintMusic *appears* to be the way to go, as it seems to do what I need it to do AND is able to scan music in. It's also a little more affordable.
Are there alternatives that I should consider?
Thanks.
Donna
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Derek Turner on September 23, 2012 4:55am
I believe Avid offer 'education' prices on Sibelius and Photoscore. Get the school to fork out :)
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on September 23, 2012 2:52pm
Finale products also offer educational discounts. You could also check out Finale's SMartMusic which is for educational use. I concur that the school couold easily fork out the money and you are allowed to put it on two different computers - the school's and yours.
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on September 23, 2012 4:52pm
I wish the school district COULD fork out. Unfortunately, I have no district budgets to work with, and technology has no funds for me either. One ASB account is actually "in the hole" to the tune of $600. The other has a little bit in it but I have to pay my accompanist from it. Our district just dumped the elementary music program to save money and is among several districts in our county that could go financially underwater shortly (and we would then be run by the State, which is another subject completely.)
So I'm looking for something that would allow me to input music to get a human playback....and reasonably priced.
Donna
on September 24, 2012 6:36am
Try MuseScore. It's free and behaves much like Sibelius. http://musescore.org/
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on September 24, 2012 8:33am
Try lilypond.
It produces excellent output (pdf, ps, eps, etc), it is easy to generate midi files, and it is free.
Have a close look at http://www.lilypond.org/introduction.html
This links to a small Rachmaninoff score produced with lilypond: http://www0.cpdl.org/wiki/images/d/db/Rach-bog.pdf
And that´s a link to the source file that was used to produce the pdf score: http://www0.cpdl.org/wiki/images/0/07/Rach-bog.ly
Knut Petersen
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