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I found the app to be incredibly well-featured but ridiculously unintuitive. Nothing worked the way I wanted to and I spent half my time fighting it when trying
by Waterluvian 3y ago
I found the app to be incredibly well-featured but ridiculously unintuitive. Nothing worked the way I wanted to and I spent half my time fighting it when trying to insert notes and such.
I have no background in authoring sheet music so my sense is that this is just me and my whole mental model is probably wrong.
Did anyone else experience this? Or did anyone else find it to be the opposite: super intuitive and smooth?
- TheRealPomax 3y agoI hear if you create a 40 minute youtube video on how bad the UI is, with a bit of humour mixed in, but mostly valid criticism, they hire you as a product manager.
- bjustin 3y agoI've used it to make proper sheet music out of tabs people post on Ultimate Guitar. It was a slog to get started, but I suspect that is because of the wide range of symbols etc I needed to use. Once I had a sense for how to find things — after transcribing about a page of music — it was smooth sailing. I'd never written sheet music before using MuseScore 4.
- em3rgent0rdr 3y agoThere is plenty of good easy to read documentation: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4 https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4 Pro tip: With your left hand centered on asdf, you can easily access the most important stuff (note pitches abcdefg and note durations 123456).
- coldtea 3y ago>I have no background in authoring sheet music so my sense is that this is just me and my whole mental model is probably wrong. Probably, if you mean 4+ which is significantly intuitive with certain big changes. 3 and earlier was a lot more unituitive. Note that all the industry-standard alternatives (except the relative newcomer Dorico) are much much less intuitive, and not because of the domain complexity of sheet music, but because of bad UI.