MuseScore for Windows

Very happy with this software. I was prepared for a lengthy getting to know the programme phase and a useless handbook, as is so often the case with free software, but I was surprised. After an hour of experimenting and looking non-obvious things up in the handbook, I was able to use the software pretty well, and got my first ever digital score sorted quite quickly.There are a few things that could be improved of course, especially so that editing larger sections is a bit easier, but overall, thank you, thank you, thank you, developers! I'll recommend Musescore. Pros: Ease of use and good handbookMany functions available for a free programme Cons: Editing could be made easierSome of the options are in parts of the menu that are not really intuitive (though that could be me)

Good except bugs. This is good, but sometimes have bugs. You can write sheet music with it, and stimulate ,and share it on the Internet(maximum 5 songs with a free account) not bad. Pros: Sheet music writerMusic stimulatorCan create own music with the instuments. Cons: BugsNumbers of music to share

Ran about as well as a ballpoint pen that skips badly!. I used 1.3 on a nine year old Celeron PC with 500mb/ram. The task of producing a 4.5 minute professional looking vocal solo with piano accompaniment proved daunting, to say the least. While the job eventually got done with beautiful results, numerous glitches, lockups and some crashes occurred along the way, and, in desperation, the final score formatting was done through screenshots and a third party graphics editor. This software has wonderful potential, and I am very thankful to the Musescore development team for its tremendous efforts and fair results. but at the present time, this software appears to have more bugs than an ant colony.I've found problems such as this with other related music software. That makes me suspect that the glitches may be mostly related to the Windows XP (SP3) operating system. Has your development team considered doing a Windows build based upon JAVA? (I am an avid Jorgan user, a VTPO available from Sourceforge. As the name implies, Jorgan is based on JAVA. In spite of being very complicated software with a steep learning curve, Jorgan is very smooth, stable and usually glitch free. Pros: Very professional looking final results Cons: Eliminate the many glitches, lockups and crashes

Mscore 0.9.5. In Ubuntu, I used version 0.9.4 a while, but often Musescore crashed, of course without saving. I think version 0.9.5 is a little better with less crashes. When I used Windows mostly, I had a licensed version of Sibelius, version 4. Sometimes I use it, but since I installed Ubuntu, I prefer that OS. But I must admit, Musescore has a long way to go before it can compete with Sibelius. Nevertheless, I use Mscore version 0.9.5 more often now. Pros: I find Mscore easy to use, but after using Sibelius a long time it is obvious that many features are not present or less easy to use. But until now I like working with Mscore. Keep up the good work! Cons: The playing functionality is not very good and can't configured like as in Sibelius. Copy and paste is rather limited.