The Encore-case! As Matt points out, that was some genius software, but it crashed on you at the blink of an eye. Still, was so intuitive.

Tried Forte Notation, Musescore, Finale. To me, nothing comes close. Funnily, the Finale notepad strikes me as one of the best available, right now.

And for me, I need to see the melody while practicing tunes. So, I use the Melody track in BIAB and have the Sheet window open. I’m sure a lot of musicians work the same way.

The trouble with the Sheet or lead sheet window is:
*Inconsistent use of accidentals
*Displaying the whole sheet (8 or 10 single staff lines, 4 bars per line...) makes Biab crash often and this has been so since biab 2012. Has something to do with the screen resolution, but I can’t fix it.
*Displaying the whole sheet makes the chords unreadable. If you make the chord font bigger, the chords are no longer well placed, even with the engraver option. *And chords with extensions are often made really small.
*The sheet doesn’t display pushes, holds and other accents... as in the New Real Book
*First endings, tags, endings... are a mess to work with. Should be as used in notation: al coda, coda, 1st, 2nd
*A-B sections should be more flexible: every chorus is either “as on the chord window” or “all parts play B-style” in the middle sections.

I can’t stress enough how important it is to be able to stay inside biab: in theory you have everything you need: chords, melody, notation, arrangement options and the underrated conductor. All that exporting to DAW or notation, makes you lose all the possibilities of biab, like
*switching styles and feels,
*Rearranging chords
*Making other tag-endings and trying them out
*Using Bar settings for altering instruments or volume of accompanying instruments

Biab, Kontakt, Sampletank and lots of nice libraries, from Fluffy audio to Abbey Road drums.
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