Scoring Software

[quapman]

Greetings forumites.

 

Just curious if any of you have used and can recommend a half decent scoring software.

Free is good. And cheap is ok.

 

Not sure if either of those prerequisites lend themselves to anything worthwhile or not.

A quick search shows there are a few free ones out there.

 

Anyone have any experience with any of them?

 

I don't want to have to spend a ton of time learning to use it so something intuitive is a big plus.

Doesn't have to be advanced. No Quincey Jones stuff going on here.

 

Just wanna do some basic scoring for drums and piano for my kids to learn and play and maybe record just for fun.

 

Curious if anyone has any experience.

 

So far MuseScore looks interesting.

[livemusic]

In the last day or so, I clicked on a link that took me to a video and I think it might have been on Sweetwater site. It was an $20 or so app for iPad that does just what you want... score music. And there was a free version. I think it was a recently released product. You could draw the notes by hand and it will convert them. And even play them back.

[quapman]

Thanks man,

 

What was it called?

Is it available on Android?

I don't have i-anything lol..

 

 

Actually so far this MuseScore looks pretty good.

 

I have downloaded it and am playing with it now.

[Drog]

Lilypond is really good, you can also customize it since it is an open source program. You can just skim the surface or get really deep into it.

 

Lilypond link

[quapman]

GNU??

 

Are you a Linux guy?

A man after my own heart. lol.

 

I ran linux for a couple years but my wife hated it and I was eventually forced to go back to microsoft.

 

 

Are you running it on windows or linux?

I see it's available for all.

 

Probably works great on linux.

 

interesting!

Thanks.

[livemusic]

Here is the one I mentioned...