MUSESCORE VS LILYPOND SOFTWARE

I use a computer keyboard for entering notes and reconfigure the keyboard so I have two keypads – one for pitch and the other for duration. For me, there was just one problem though with the note input. The layout, whilst not perfect, is very good and seems to be almost identical to Sibelius (which is also very good but not perfect).

Then I hit on MuseScore which was just what I thought I was looking for. I did have a try on the aforementioned LilyPond which has a certain appeal to me as someone who writes code – you type it all out in a text editor and it then renders it on-screen – but, again, the lack of sound feedback was a problem for me. I use the sound feedback for proofing wrong notes and, therefore, ended up with a few strange transcriptional errors – particularly one piece that had the wrong key signature which I didn’t notice because I couldn’t hear that it sounded rather odd!

MUSESCORE VS LILYPOND SOFTWARE

Having not spent much time typesetting for a few years, I arrived back to engage in some work in it again to find that the sound no longer worked on my copy of Sibelius 3 due to ‘upgrades’ in operating systems on both Mac and PC locking us into having to pay again for the same software that we already paid for. MuseScore | Free Music Notation 17 Mar, 2015 in Open SourceĪs a long-time user of Sibelius, I was most intrigued to see that there was Open Source competition entering the field in the form of MuseScore and LilyPond (more about that later).

Musescore vs lilypond