finale & drum notation

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hey lads, i'm currently testing out finale. I will be purchasing it at some point but don't know which version to stretch to. At the moment I'm on "printmusic".

I'm trying to write a drum score but for some reason the scores I have from real printed music (which seem to be relatively standardized) are not matching up in finale. Is there any way I could designate which drum sounds... sound when notes are placed on the staff? The top three spaces inho should be the three toms (e=high, c=mid, a=low) this is not the case in final. Is there anyway I can change this? I could mabye stretch to allegro but printmusic seems to have all I need at a good price.

Cheers
 
I'm not ignoring you - I know nothing about Finale...sorry! :D
 
I don't either sadly :p, 'm starting to think sibelius might be worth a try, it's not very easy inputing in finale with a laptop & no midi keyboard. So if anyone has any ideas about sibelious being a better option - speak to me please:D
 
Toddskins said:
I just spoke to Sibelius and posted on this subject a week ago.

If the link does not work, it's in "Songwriting", called "music notation software?" by jfrog


https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=257508
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Cheers, but I was looking at trying to correct a problem with the drum score entry I wasn't really wanting a product comparison. Interesting reading though. I've sorted my problem, sibelius doesn't have any kind of problem with the drum score so I'm just using that. It isn't as fiddily as finale in my opinion, and I don't use midi to input notes so sibelius, though expensive is the one for me. Finale seems to over-complicate things aswell, I don't mean that sibelius doesn't have complex features. But I've found that sibelius does simple things in a simple manner, it's quick and easy. Finale does everything in the most complicated way possible, but then again I didn't test it for that long.
 
have you lost it

what r you doin with notation software?

anyway i thought you had a fight with your pc... and the pc lost :eek::p
 
I was sold a laptop for £50!! It's not super high spec, but does everything i need it to do. And.. I thought a good way of learning how to read scores would be to start writing them, it's working really well & I'm kind of enjoying it aswell. Writing rthym is pretty tricky at times, especially when syncopation comes into it, and that seems to come into play a lot surprisingly. :cool:
 
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