(03-06-2015, 10:19 AM)isa4031 Wrote: I've just started using the MuseScore app for android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...lite&hl=en) and windows (http://musescore.org/en).I've used MuseScore for Windows for several years and am really happy with it. Windows is completely free- open source. The Android app is like $5.
Not fully discovered all the features and would love to hear any comments.
Like all notation applications I've used it took me a while to get the hang of the user interface but I think it's the best of the several I've used, including most recently Finale PrintMusic. It seems to have substantially all the functionality of the big scorewriters (Finale + Sibelius) and of course the huge advantage of being open source + free.
They've just come out with a major version upgrade from 1.3 (I believe) to 2.0. 2.0 is a big step forward - I haven't yet upgraded, but I used a beta of V2 for a while and was pretty pleased with what I saw.
I think the Android app has huge potential, but it seems to me to be relatively low on the maturity curve. You can't write a score on the Android app- it will play the score, but to me the HUGE advantage is that you can transpose a score live on the fly in MuseScore on Android. The current version renders it pretty roughly, but as it gets better, this is a game-changer in a jam situation (jazz, folk, etc) when somebody calls a song I sort of know and have on the tab, but they call it in Ab instead of F, or whatever.