It is important that it be able to handle fairly complicated musical notation
such as is found in most modern music these days. It would be really nice if
it could automatically take a conductor's score and split it up into parts.
I gather that there is a fair amount of stuff like this for the mac.
Suggestions about good or bad software would be appreciated, along with how
big a mac you need to run it, the price, and so forth. My friend is an
impoverished rural housewife so if she could get a usable system for $2500 or
so that would be great.
Please send me mail, I'll summarize if there's interest.
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John R. Levine, {ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale }!ima!johnl
Lev...@YALE.EDU
The opinions expressed above are those of a 12-year-old hacker who has
broken into my account and not those of any person or organization.
P.C. version 2.0 has pretty good Laserwriter support (earlier versions do
not), so you can get an impeccable looking score. You need at least a 512
(i.e.go for a MacPlus); price on the street is around $250. This is a lot,
but it looks to me as if for a writer this is well worth it.
Anthony Bulloch
Dept. of Classics
Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley
Ca. 94720
Tel.: 415-642-4218/4001
It handles just about everything you might want, I believe (I've read
many reviews but never actually touched one.) I don't know about
terribly modern pieces; they've been developing some very odd notation
lately.
There was a fairly in-depth review in the Computer Music Journal a few
issues ago; done by a musician/computer user, rather than a computer
tech writer. His opinion was that if you were doing serious score work,
this was the only product that came close to being adequate.
Unfortunately, ProfComp is quite pricey -- $495.
Cheers,
chris