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Was trying to use Sibelius recently and it s*cked big time! An open format for export would be great!
by stigi 13y ago
Was trying to use Sibelius recently and it s*cked big time!
An open format for export would be great!
- deadlysyntax 13y agoMidi?
- ygra 13y agoMidi is hardly appropriate or useful for music engraving. It's for controlling a device to output music in the way you want, not for recording how it looks on paper.
- colomon 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicXML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicXML Disclaimer: I have no experience with MusicXML. The vast majority of the music I want to notate fits on a single staff, and ABC is brilliant for that -- it's a well-established portable open music format that's easily entered and edited by hand. (Technically speaking it can do multi-staff music as well, but it starts to get a bit over-complicated and hacky at that point, IMO.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation PS The "Score" example on the ABC notation page is terrible, but it's a limitation of the lousy standard abc2ly translator, not the ABC format. I've got my own abc2ly which does a much better job of it...