notation software

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I'm playing around with this free little Finale NotePad 2002...it's a lot of fun, you pick out your time sig. your key, clef, instruments, then choose your notes/rests and click out a score, then you can print it out and play it back using little midi sounds...

I was wondering if there's a software out there that does this same thing, only with high quality orchestral samples, so that you could click out your score, and play it back with some realism, then say, make an mp3 out of it. I can't imagine that's impossible to do, but has anyone done it yet?
 
Most high end software programs do have notation programs within. You can use external samplers or keyboards or even software samplers with recorded real samples from just about every instrument on the planet to play out your score in audio.
 
I have Score Writer from Cakewalk. I'm not using it now...it's not even on my pc. I'll sell it to you for cheap. Don't worry, it's the retail version.
 
get Sibelius...... you will not be sorry. It's more intuitive. I've used it for several years and I'm still happy with it... I used to use Finale... I kept Finale on my machine for a while after I got Sibelius... then I realized I was never using Finale (I found I'd automatically start any new projects on Sibelius because I liked it so much better) Finale was just taking up HD space so......
 
Try out Igor Engraver by Noteheads. They were the first ones to actually think about realism, and its a lot cheaper than the others. Actually a lot of the new features in the latest years realeases of Finale and Sibelius are very much inspired by Igor. (Or so I've heard.) I'm not sure how stable it is on PC yet, I tried it out a year ago (in beta) and back then it was not quite there yet.

http://www.noteheads.com
 
I think what he really wants to do is to dump a MIDI file out of a notation package and then run it through something like GigaStudio or another virtual sampler.... and most any notation package can do that. Then you'd get your CD-quality sounds.

BTW: check out Melody Assistant at www.myriad-online.com (great notation package, cheap, PC and Mac versions and you can download a "higher" quality sound database to play back your songs.)
 
Well,
high quality sounds is great. But I think a program that knows how to use the sounds makes a bigger difference, assuming you are not using really crappy FM synthesis... (Having both is always best! :) )
 
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