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>>>...most publishers will accept notation in Finale whereas I am not too sure about Noteworthy...>>>

This is the dilemma I am facing. I like NW for a lot of reasons, not least the price. How significant is the fact that NW is a proprietary format? This might be a deal breaker for some. Should it be for me? Its a lot of money to get compatibility I might not need. At this point I am not dealing with publishers. Is it not true that publishers will accept MIDI files? I do all my writing in MIDI already. I plan to have all the editing done in my MIDI sequencer before bringing it over to NW, or whatever notation program I end up with.

Thanks for all of your great advice so far...



Hmm... I guess you need to ask yourself how likely it is that you will need to submit to a publisher. And just how much format matters anyhow, as it is most likely a publisher will re-typeset to suit themselves.

WRT MIDI import, while not perfect, NWC imports OK. But a good MIDI performance will likely not result in good notation - no matter what notation product you use. With a good "humanised" MIDI performance note on and off times are often shifted in time from "perfectly in time". This can result in 32nd and 64th notes and rests that are just plain wrong for the notation even if they are very close to the performance...

IIRC the NWC2 trial does not do MIDI import. If you want to see the results of an import of one of your MIDI's please PM me and we can make arrangements to do some file sharing.

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