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Little bits of progress 20 months ago

I went through yesterday and did some cleanup in the move of my first movement from Garageband to Logic. In the version of GB I was using at the time, I had no tempo automation, so I just played rubato to get a ritardando when I wanted one.

Now that I have tempo automation, I needed to go through and fix all those events to be correct at tempo, so I can go through next and use tempo automation for my ritard.

Apr 21, 2008, 08:48PM PDT

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josephgut

Software for Composing

Chris,

I was wondering if you’ve ever tried using Sibelius to compose any of your work. I’m just now looking into which software is best, but it’s a tough choice. Congrats.

- Joseph

Apr 28, 2008, 03:11PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Chris Cooke finds 43Things thinks he's an extroverted, creative, self-improver.

Haven't used Sibelius

I haven’t used Sibelius, though I know someone else who is. She’s not composing, though. She’s a piano teacher and chorale member who uses Sibelius primarily to generate sheet music of stuff she plays into her MIDI keyboard.

I think it comes down to how you compose, and what your budget is like. I’m not the greatest at reading/writing music, so I tend to work with the keyboard directly to make the notes. I’ll produce the score after the fact, if I ever even really need to. Unless I ever get some real live musicians who want to play my stuff, I don’t really need to generate a score.

How do you work, or plan to?

Apr 29, 2008, 05:45AM PDT | Respond to this

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