2017 Top Ten Notation Software Review includes Musescore
Hi all,
If you ever made it to the Top 10, you usually see this as an award. Yesterday I noticed that Musescore was ranked in the Top 10 by Best Picks review considering performance issues and sales prices.
http://www.toptenreviews.com/software/home/best-music-notation-software/
What I really don`t understand is that the jury left out Myriad Software with Harmony Assistant including the features of Virtual and Real Singer for 80 bucks. Noone mentioned in any SW such features as singing lyrics texts with own sampled voices i.g. your own or of great stars as Myriad developed. Can anyone see other totally negelected features like tuning offset by individual cents in Musescore useful for ethnic music or...?
Thanks for reading, sorry for mistypes and phps patiently waiting for a response?
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Considering that they, as far as I can tell, dropped Musescore by something like 3 points over not having phone support, I'm not entirely sure that it is worthwhile to take advice from that site without a grain of salt.
That, or maybe we need to consider setting up a volunteer-ran phone help line or something.
They've also seem to somehow have managed to miss the computer keyboard as input method…
And just for fun, read through the full Sibelius First review; except for automated chord detection, replace 'Sibelius First' with 'MuseScore 2' and all is valid.
If you look at the summary, you'll even notice we have the same PRO's and none of the CONs.
I think you should be able to find better (more objective) reviews quite easily.
In reply to They've also seem to somehow by jeetee
Hi,
For myself I found that in the free trial version of the French SW Myriad Harmony Assistant the feature of automated chord detection is available. I ordered a 5 buck guitar tuner from China that claims it has this feature is installed too. It will take some weeks to arrive to check that though?
MuseScore was totally dissed. It's features are more complete than all of the others but Sibelius First, and they incorrectly reported there is no mixer.
MuseScore is free, so they don't get Amazon affiliation money when a user clicks on "Visit site". Why would they rank MuseScore higher then?
In reply to MuseScore is free, so they by [DELETED] 5
Still, it would probably do no harm to contact them and call them out on it.
In reply to MuseScore is free, so they by [DELETED] 5
Their credibility is questionable?
In reply to Their credibility is by mike320
I think lasconic nailed it. Click the links, and you'll see they're Amazon affiliate trackers.
In reply to Their credibility is by mike320
I've seen a number of reports that Top Ten Reviews gives good reviews for a fee. I have no direct knowledge.
In reply to I've seen a number of reports by jim.weisgram
Regardless, their review shouldn't be taken seriously.
I have first heard about MuseScore when I searched "music notation software" and came across this review. What interested me was that it was the only free one. I didn't even consider getting such a program at the time, since I didn't really need it and I can't afford spending money on something I don't really need. So it did at least one good thing - getting me involved with this great open-source project ;-).
Joking aside, revisiting the page after using MuseScore a while, I discovered that, upon closer inspection, MuseScore is in fact more feature complete by their own tables than even the no. 1 program in some respects and definitely the no. 5 program. Nothing suspicious there... except if they downgraded it because of accessibility and ease of use. That is, however, not the case, I find MuseScore easy to use. Other programs might be even better, but that shouldn't weigh enough to rate them above a program which is more feature-complete, should it?
In reply to I have first heard about… by Louis Cloete
@Louis This top 10 review report is completely bought/rigged. We reached out to the editor a couple of times already but they have no (commercial) interest to change/correct the review on MuseScore. But good to know you found MuseScore this way and you started contributing to it :)