Is musescore a copy of Sibelius?
I have just installed a Sibelius Trail Version and I was amazed about the similarities of Musescore to Sibelius.
I seems to me, that the devs tried to improve the concept of usability of Sibelius. Is this impression correct?
On the other hand, I am using since many years capella. In my point of view, many things are more easier to handle in capella than in Musescore, because capella use a totally different way. (My opinion, I would love making the input with capella, the printing-output with musescore.)
But if my observation is correct, I think it would be better, to look for good concepts in different scorewriter and improve them for musescore.
For example the pallets.
To reach a pallet in capella is a long way, you see them at once in musescore.
But after reaching the pallet capella is more easier, because someone can use shortcuts, in musescore you have to click around.
Mixing both ways could be, if a pallet in Musescore is active you can use keystrokes like in capella to insert the pallet symbols.
Comments
Making the master palette accessible via shortcuts/keystrokes is a future goal. See also https://musescore.org/en/node/57781#comment-267196
Responding to the title question, "Is MuseScore a copy of Sibelius", the answer is no. Despite the 100% overlap in purpose, the two programs are much more different from than similar to each other. However, Sibelius was one the dominant commercial scorewriters before the MuseScore project was started, and as a result established at least a few design concepts that MuseScore did follow. The same is true of Finale. Each of these three programs has similarities to each of the others, but each is also mostly unique. MuseScore is as unique as either of the other two.
Like this: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/printouts/Venn3Circles.pdf
My sense is that the basic way music entry works is definitely much more like Sibelius than Finale, so that Sibelius users find the adjustment easier than Finale users do. It's all a question of what you are used to, though. Most operations take the exact same number of clicks in all programs, it's just often a different sequence of clicks. The exception being the palette in MuseScore (and Sibelius), which indeed is not as keybaord accessible yet as we'd like.
In reply to My sense is that the basic by Marc Sabatella
I don't think Sibelius has palettes at all, as such—that's one of the places where MuseScore and Finale overlap, with Sibelius excluded.
In reply to I don't think Sibelius has by Isaac Weiss
Not in the same sense as ours, but the basic idea that there are symbols to place and the controls are not fully keyboard accessible as far as I know. I know previous versions of Sibelius were laid out different than the current one.