230 page songbook published thanks to Musescore!

Hi all, just wanted to announce the release of a massive project realised using Musescore 3.6.

CLEAN - The Musical won "Best Production" award at Brighton Fringe in June and picked up five star reviews and standing ovations for every performance.

I began the scoring process in Dorico but as I was using Elements (limited to 12 instruments and no Engraving features) and could not afford to upgrade I switched via XML exports to Musescore. Smart move and I will not be saving up to upgrade Dorico!

Finished all layouts and a lot of editing and additions in MS, then exported PDFs. These were imported into Affinity Publisher for the printed PDF version & the Kindle Book (which allows for PDF import to convert)

I also exported PNGs to import into Pages (no PDF import) to create the ePub & iBook.

A massive amount of work, and I'm sure the layout (some spaces at the end of pieces etc) could've been better, but in the end I'm very pleased to have completed this project begun two years ago.

I'm very excited about Musescore 4 - if it allows the seamless combining of several scores I will be able to miss out the Affinity Designer stage altogether and export a completed songbook straight from MS. To create ePub & iBooks I expect we'll still have to export a graphic file to use in Pages or whatever, though as music readers are ubiquitous now (the 1st violinist at a summer concert of Mahler's 4th - prestigious London Phil - was using an iPad for his score) but it would be great if this export function was considered for MS4.

Here's a link to the Kindle version, iBook on Apple available of course. Sorry I'm not posting my 230 page score here for free!

Big thanks to all the members here for all the help and advice I've received these past few months!

https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Musical-Score-Simon-Scardanelli-ebook/dp/B…