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  • Bridging the Gap b/t Cubase and notation software

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    My reading skills are not great - I can listen to music and have a score in front of me and figure it all out on my guitar, but very slowly and far from exhaustively.

    I'd like at some point to move from Cubase to notation software, I feel it will lead to more authentic compositions.

    I know Cubase offers a scoring pane, but is it actually a decent way to write in any sort of proper manner? If not, can someone recommend a package that is inexpensive, maybe doesn't do much, but will bridge the gap b/t Cubase and only looking at sheet music to compose?

    I realize a lot of this is about experience and knowledge, nothing to do with software, but for example if I took a score I like a lot, say RK's Spanish Caprice, and wanted to create a mockup of it using VSL samples and software, and a notation-based sequencer, I think I'd learn a lot.

    I also just started studying a whack of books (Rimsky-Korsikov's book, Berloiz's, and The Guide to Midi Orchestration,), so hopefully this all comes together before I turn 91. I'm 41, that should give me time...:)

    Shawn
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    G

    i think for doing mockups the cubase score editor is fine.

    I was using finale before and then exporting to cubase, however this manual step always frustrated me, and also did not allow me to make some easy checks (e.g.: for full chord distrubution the key editor tells me much more then the full score where i have to transpose different clefs or even instruments ...)

    Main thing I am missing is the Acustic Feedack which is very poor in cubase ...

    Did you try the cubase score editor already? What have been your obstacles?
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    S

    Thanks:)

    I've so far only opened the editor in tracks that I've build previously, and it looks like very bare information. I've never tried to open an empty file and start with the score editor in the first place. To be honest, I didn't think I could. I'll give that a try and see how it works out:)
  • civilization 3C
    civilization 3C

    get MuseScore. it's very intuitive to work with and it does most tasks. It's free.

    http://musescore.org/