It costs nothing to get, and the quality of hassle-free playback should provide enough motivation to stick with it while it’s being developed and refined and to learn its ins and outs. If MuseScore 4 really does provides this level of “instant gratification” out of the box, then it’s a no-brainer as a sketching if not compositional tool, superior to Dorico and undercutting on of its stated aims. To a lot of ears, the current version of NotePerformer is not as good as Staffpad has been or MuseScore 4 is right now at this level.Īside from the issue of value for money, there is also the issue of ease of use.
MUSESCORE VS SIBELIUS PLUS
So my money is waiting for NotePerformer 4.įor the cost of $0 and a single program, this official demo is truly remarkable.Īssuming that the engraving capabilities of MuseScore 4 do not exceed Dorico Elements (I have no clue), it still takes $100 plus a complete and total dependence on a 3rd party developer ($130 more for NotePerformer) to get to the comparable quality of playback. I also don’t know how you do soundsets for the VST instruments.Īlso it has some kind of baked in reverb that I couldn’t turn off (so therefore couldn’t use a different reverb VST plugin).
In my view, NotePerformer is miles better, and even though its samples may be less shiny, it has less weirdness going on, which every other system seems to suffer from. It really limits what you can write before you start getting all kind of weird artefacts. Clearly it’s using Staffpad’s rendering engine. So yeah MuseScore has the exact same issue. You hear the tail of the first note crescendo quickly as the envelope is modulated prior to the next note. Staffpad suffered in rendering for this, you couldn’t have for example a held note at dynamic p, moving to a different note at f.
When I looked into this system, it uses envelope modulation to handle dynamics, and also some quick repeated notes. I also have Staffpad, which uses a sfz system for rendering. I just had a play with it on some old musescore scores.
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