Re:What's wrong with our score editor?
2012/05/24 21:42:04
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Are you talking about that printable staff view thingy? I poked around at it and IMO it ain't great but I think it's gonna be more useful to me than Guitar Pro and it's free (because it came with X1). Pretty simple to use. Gives you a nice printable version of the staff or tabs. Seems to have all the traditional staffs covered and all the pertinent notation symbols. It seems it's easily transposable. IDK... I like it. It seems to have a lot of options one would need for composing to proper sheet music. It'll easily translate itself into MIDI sounds which is great (and I think the real point of the staff view). It's a bit of a pain to make it work properly at first (and isn't exactly the way I'd set things up but whatever) but it's all explained thoroughly in the help topic tutorials. The guitar chord charts are weird and annoying but I think I just need to learn how to use them properly. I think it's usable and I'll probably end up using it A LOT for teaching purposes. However I'd likely be putting it into printable versions and using an image editor such as Paint or GIMP (or if I ever have the money PhotoShop) and then cut elements out to slap into files for stuff I'm trying to convey to a student. So there's a little ramble for ya. Just pop it open (View > Staff View... I think) and follow the help topic tuts on Staff View and you can see for yourself what it does. Cheers.