I used to use maestro on the phone, but it gets cumbersome. Once you get the system, lilypond is nice - you're typing, get validation. The system is incredibly

I used to use maestro on the phone, but it gets cumbersome. Once you get the system, lilypond is nice - you're typing, get validation. The system is incredibly complete, but a bit complex, and sometimes it feels a bit far from the sheet. I miss being able to get something out of my head, so I hum it into the mic, but it ain't the same. The midi rendition is nice to validate you got the timing right, but it's the entire piece everytime, hard to judge just a bit. Frescobaldi on top is great. Overall, I salute the work, does the job well, don't think I'll move soon. Sibelius attracts you with a "starting at $19.99" which sounds reasonable for software, until you realize that it is a monthly fee, justified by cloud storage (who cares about that at this stage, give me dropbox/onedrive connector and I'll be happy rather than disseminating my stuff across everyone's greedy cloud storages) and updates. You can't buy a perpetual license. This is a disease, by principle I will never buy that shit. Finale seems to be perpetual license with an upgrade system, which I salute. It took a lot of digging to find the price, and... $600 it is. So it's a professional software and they don't have a personal use tier. So, lilypond it is.