Need Help Performing Research For Master Degree

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Need Help Performing Research For Master Degree

Hi everyone, My Name is Ryan.
Im currently undertaking a Masters Degree and Im basing my project on the use of Music Software and the ways in which software affects the compositional process.

At the moment I'm looking at which software is most popular amongst the music community.

If you would like to help, please let me know what software/s you use for COMPOSITION and the reason why you use that particular software

Im not looking to start any flame wars over which software or operating system is best. I am merely investigating the ways in which software
can help the user and also the unknown effects it can have on the compositional process.

Thanks in advance for any replies,
Ryan


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[Mike Rivers]

NewsLeecher User wrote:

> At the moment I'm looking at which software is most popular amongst the music community.

Which music community? Different musicians do different things, and
those who use software
usually seek out the tools that let them do what they do most efficiently.

> If you would like to help, please let me know what software/s you use for COMPOSITION

Well, that's a little more specific. I'm not a composer.



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[Jenn[_2_]]

In article >,
NewsLeecher User > wrote:

> Need Help Performing Research For Master Degree
>
> Hi everyone, My Name is Ryan.
> Im currently undertaking a Masters Degree and Im basing my project on the use
> of Music Software and the ways in which software affects the compositional
> process.
>
> At the moment I'm looking at which software is most popular amongst the music
> community.
>
> If you would like to help, please let me know what software/s you use for
> COMPOSITION and the reason why you use that particular software
>
> Im not looking to start any flame wars over which software or operating
> system is best. I am merely investigating the ways in which software
> can help the user and also the unknown effects it can have on the
> compositional process.
>
> Thanks in advance for any replies,
> Ryan

Sibelius

[Arkansan Raider]

NewsLeecher User wrote:
> Need Help Performing Research For Master Degree
>
> Hi everyone, My Name is Ryan.
> Im currently undertaking a Masters Degree and Im basing my project on the use of Music Software and the ways in which software affects the compositional process.
>
> At the moment I'm looking at which software is most popular amongst the music community.
>
> If you would like to help, please let me know what software/s you use for COMPOSITION and the reason why you use that particular software
>
> Im not looking to start any flame wars over which software or operating system is best. I am merely investigating the ways in which software
> can help the user and also the unknown effects it can have on the compositional process.
>
> Thanks in advance for any replies,
> Ryan
>

I use Band-In-A-Box, Cakewalk and ProTools to compose with.

BIAB for quick n easy chord progression-type stuff, Cakewalk for actual
SATB voice arranging, and ProTools to record it all.

---Jeff

[Scott Dorsey]

NewsLeecher User > wrote:
>Im not looking to start any flame wars over which software or operating system is best. I am merely investigating the ways in which software
>can help the user and also the unknown effects it can have on the compositional process.

Pretty much everyone I know doing composition or arrangement work commercially
uses Sibelius. I don't know if that's because it's any good or just because
everyone else uses it. But if you go into a session and someone hands out
charts, odds are they are printed from Sibelius these days.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Tobiah]

> If you would like to help, please let me know what software/s you use for
> COMPOSITION and the reason why you use that particular software

I use python to create csound scores. The reason is that there are
almost no limitations as to what can be created, both in the score and
orchestra. If it can be imagined, it can be created. This comes at a
price however. It would take a beginner quite a bit of reading and
tinkering before playing "Mary had a little lamb" with a sine wave.
I worked over a year on this piece:

http://tobiah.org/one.mp3

[Richard Crowley]

"Scott Dorsey" wrote ...
> NewsLeecher User wrote:
>>Im not looking to start any flame wars over which software
>> or operating system is best. I am merely investigating the ways
>> in which software can help the user and also the unknown effects
>> it can have on the compositional process.
>
> Pretty much everyone I know doing composition or arrangement work
> commercially
> uses Sibelius. I don't know if that's because it's any good or just
> because
> everyone else uses it. But if you go into a session and someone hands out
> charts, odds are they are printed from Sibelius these days.

Having tried most of the leading contenders, Sibelius is so much
more full featured and polished that there was no real competition,
at least IMHO. If you needed to do anything at all unusual, Sibelius
had a way to do it while the others seemed to be designed for the
limited range of "normal" composition and/or they made things so
incredibly complex that you had to spend more time fiddling with
the tool than you did actually composing (or arranging) music.

Not completely unlike trying to switch to Linux after using
PC or Mac for years. The layered apps are so different that
you are distracted from your primary mission, having to figure
out the app (and/or the OS itself) instead of doing the creative
work.

[Peter Larsen[_3_]]

NewsLeecher User wrote:

> If you would like to help, please let me know what software/s you use
> for COMPOSITION and the reason why you use that particular software

Noteworthy Composer, good product for working with scores and midi and
fairly priced, also the developer listened to mhy comments.

> Ryan

Kind regards

Peter Larsen

[Mike Clayton]

NewsLeecher User wrote:
> Need Help Performing Research For Master Degree
>
> Hi everyone, My Name is Ryan.
> Im currently undertaking a Masters Degree and Im basing my project on the use of Music Software and the ways in which software affects the compositional process.
>
> At the moment I'm looking at which software is most popular amongst the music community.
>
> If you would like to help, please let me know what software/s you use for COMPOSITION and the reason why you use that particular software
>
> Im not looking to start any flame wars over which software or operating system is best. I am merely investigating the ways in which software
> can help the user and also the unknown effects it can have on the compositional process.
>
> Thanks in advance for any replies,
> Ryan

Ryan, You may want to think about the method of composition. In my mind
there are two styles, and there may well be more. There is the paper
version, where a composer works with a score sheet and possibly a
keyboard, in which case the majority probably use Sibelius.

Then there are those folk who compose directly on the computer, using
samples, midi loops and the like. This opens up a whole realm of
software possibilities. The ones that spring to my limited mind are
Logic, Cakewalk, Sonar, and to a more limited extent Pro Tools, all of
which have been mentioned by other well informed contributors.

Mike

[Jason[_12_]]

In article >,
says...

>
> Having tried most of the leading contenders, Sibelius is so much
> more full featured and polished that there was no real competition,
> at least IMHO.

My wife and I have used Finale for years and cursed it every
time we have... We tried an early relase of Sibelius, but
found that its ability to handle lyrics was crippling. I'm
sure they've improved that by now. When we began.. about 10
years ago..Finale was the easy choice. Sibelius came along
around a little later as I recall. We're still waiting to
see what emerges as the "Photoshop" of the bunch.

[Richard Crowley]

"Jason" wrote ...
> Richard Crowley says...
>> Having tried most of the leading contenders, Sibelius is so much
>> more full featured and polished that there was no real competition,
>> at least IMHO.
>
> My wife and I have used Finale for years and cursed it every
> time we have... We tried an early relase of Sibelius, but
> found that its ability to handle lyrics was crippling.

I find Sibelius' ability to handle lyrics to be wonderfully liberating.
I can just type them in as text and 99.8% of the time the phrases
get automatically assigned (and auto-spaced) with the matching
note. Quite wonderful IME.