Larry, I also have a number of notation programs, but find that I pretty much just use two: Noteworthy Composer to knock out melody lines and leadsheets (because it's fast and it was the one I first learned) and Notion 5 (mainly for church choir music transcriptions).

Noteworthy makes it easy to export to MIDI, which I then can import into BIAB. I will also import a MIDI from BIAB into Noteworthy, to tweak different instrument lines from BIAB which I then bring into RealBand).

But I like having the others, especially so I can open scores created by those other programs. Even with MusicXML, I have found that the results aren't as consistent as they should be.


John

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