TonalDynamics
Noodler Extraordinaire
Evening folks!
I've always just read music from the page or a .pdf, etc. but lately I am getting into the process of scanning scores and then 'cleaning' them up with notation software so I can import them into my DAW as music XML.
I get access to Notion with my Presonus Sphere subscription, but so far I'm having a hell of a time trying to fix this sheet music I scanned with Photoscore and imported into Notion.
For starters,
- I can't simply erase a note, highlight that area, then input a new note of the same value on the staff. it sends the note to the first beat of the measure (???) regardless of which portion of the bar is highlighted/selected.
- Occasionally, certain accidentals can't be deleted (figured out a workaround for this by assigning a natural on said note instead of deleting the accidental)
- Even after deleting every note in an existing measure filled with 16th notes, starting at beat one and adding 16th notes causes them to be spaced apart in absurd ways, even when grouped as tuplets in groups of 4 (?)
- There doesn't seem to be an effective way of moving a group of notes from treble clef to bass clef or vice-versa
- Exported one cleaned up version of the score as .xml, tried to open said file with Notion, error message comes up (yet an old version of Sibelius opens it just fine)... so Notion can't even open its own files?
- Notes and tuplets are impossible to move horizontally forward or back along each measure, even if they are the proper note length (?)
As for the last one, what in the world. It should be priority 1 for a user to be able to not only change the pitch of a note, but move it to a different beat on the measure within the staff. Can't think of anything more basic really, yet the user manual offers nothing about this simple process and I see it as a common complaint online, so I'm guessing this isn't even possible?
Am I just missing some plainly obvious stuff as a new user of this software, or is the note-input and editing system in Notion really this bad?
Should I consider Dorico instead? How much cleaner is the actual note-input process in that software, and for Pete's sake can I move an eighth note up two beats? Will the note actually go where my CURSOR is highlighting instead of inexplicably appearing at the first beat of the measure?!
As always, thanks in advance for your thoughts and help friends.
Cheers
I've always just read music from the page or a .pdf, etc. but lately I am getting into the process of scanning scores and then 'cleaning' them up with notation software so I can import them into my DAW as music XML.
I get access to Notion with my Presonus Sphere subscription, but so far I'm having a hell of a time trying to fix this sheet music I scanned with Photoscore and imported into Notion.
For starters,
- I can't simply erase a note, highlight that area, then input a new note of the same value on the staff. it sends the note to the first beat of the measure (???) regardless of which portion of the bar is highlighted/selected.
- Occasionally, certain accidentals can't be deleted (figured out a workaround for this by assigning a natural on said note instead of deleting the accidental)
- Even after deleting every note in an existing measure filled with 16th notes, starting at beat one and adding 16th notes causes them to be spaced apart in absurd ways, even when grouped as tuplets in groups of 4 (?)
- There doesn't seem to be an effective way of moving a group of notes from treble clef to bass clef or vice-versa
- Exported one cleaned up version of the score as .xml, tried to open said file with Notion, error message comes up (yet an old version of Sibelius opens it just fine)... so Notion can't even open its own files?
- Notes and tuplets are impossible to move horizontally forward or back along each measure, even if they are the proper note length (?)
As for the last one, what in the world. It should be priority 1 for a user to be able to not only change the pitch of a note, but move it to a different beat on the measure within the staff. Can't think of anything more basic really, yet the user manual offers nothing about this simple process and I see it as a common complaint online, so I'm guessing this isn't even possible?
Am I just missing some plainly obvious stuff as a new user of this software, or is the note-input and editing system in Notion really this bad?
Should I consider Dorico instead? How much cleaner is the actual note-input process in that software, and for Pete's sake can I move an eighth note up two beats? Will the note actually go where my CURSOR is highlighting instead of inexplicably appearing at the first beat of the measure?!
As always, thanks in advance for your thoughts and help friends.
Cheers
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