Music Notation Software

[SanderXpander]

I'm not sure what you mean here? You say you don't want to alter the GM setup but you do want different sounds?

[jamsire]

I've recently upgraded to Sibelius 7 and would like to try using my Kronos for playback. I was wondering whether anyone knew of a Sibelius "sound set" that would work for this purpose. I'm not sure I'm up to reprogramming the General MIDI soundest...

HI THERE!!!

I get what you mean, but the Sound Sets idea in Sibelius was primarily for units that had a fixed set of presets and "where they are" in the 000-127 preset setup.

I think in you situation it is "better" to set your standard Combi or Seq. preset, then go into Sibelius and make that a Sound Set because it's just doing MIDI, not calling up specific instruments, though, I guess you can. I've done this "trick" in Pro Tools with my RADIAS. I pretend I'm using the Triton midi patch names set, then I click on a name in that window to see watch patch it is on the RADIAS.

You can PM me and we can maybe SYKPE a call to see how we can make it work for you.

[Hal2001]

I have a simpler situation but still not sure whether I can use Logic Pro 9 for it or need Sibelius. I am not doing orchestration. I just want to render some compositions in standard piano sheet music so any pianist can sit down and play them. Up to now I've just stored all my Grand Piano midi data in GarageBand as seen in some of my videos. However, the results are not usable as is because there will be stray orphaned left hand bass notes that jump to the treble clef rather than appearing as left handed ledger lines which I want. Since no program knows which notes I played with my left hand or my right hand, I am looking for an easy way to pop the orphaned notes to the appropriate ledger lines without figuring out where they belong (I play everything by ear). I assume I have to do this with manual editing. Since there should be a simple algorithm for just sliding a note from the treble clef to the equivalent bass ledger, which notation program allows that the easiest? I recently got Logic Pro 9 as a gift and haven't opened it yet (Apple would not upgrade it to 10 even though it was bought 5 weeks before new release). Should I use Logic Pro to accomplish this notation editing by importing my GB midi? Or should I get Sibelius and import the midi to that? And if the latter, which is the most economical version of Sibelius that can accomplish this? Really appreciate any help. Hal