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Sibelius 6 |
Finale 2010 | QuickScore Elite | Notion 3 |
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| Site License Available | Yes | Yes, for 10 or more licenses | Yes | Yes | |
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| Read Review at MEdM | Read our review of Sibelius 6 | Read our review of Finale 2010 | Read our review of QuickScore Elite Level II | Read our review of Notion 3 |
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| Maximum # of Staves | Unlimited | Unlimited | 48 | Unlimited | |
| Custom Staff Styles |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Complex time signatures | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| US/UK Terminology | Both | Both | Both | US | |
| Tablature support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Plugin Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Live tempo, vamping, and skip ahead support | Live tempo (tap time support) | No | No | Live tempo, vamping, and skip ahead during performance, specify exact rhythms for tempo control or use default beat, pause on fermatas,cutoffs support, take 2nd ending support, navigate the score while performing | |
| Input via MIDI | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Input via microphone | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Input via scanner | Yes, with PhotoScore | Yes, with SmartScore Lite (included) | Yes, not included | Yes, not included | |
| Exports to | MIDI, MusicXML | MIDI, MusicXML | MIDI, MusicXML | MIDI, Music XML | |
| Imports from | MIDI, MusicXML | MIDI, MusicXML | MIDI, NIFF, MusicXML, Guido, MusicWrite | MIDI, Music XML | |
| Imports image file formats for use in scores |
TIFF | JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF,TIFF,EPS | BMP | No | |
| Parts dynamically linked to score |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Custom note head styles | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Video support | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Audio Output | MIDI, VST, WAV |
MIDI, VST, WAV, MP3 |
WAV, VST | MIDI, VST, WAV | |
| Save Files As | WAV, MIDI, TIFF, EPS, BMP, PNG, EPS | MIDI, MP3, WAV, AIFF, JPG, PNG, TIFF, EPS | QSD, Copyist, MIDI, MusicXML, WAV, MP3, PDF*, JPG*, BMP, TIFF, EMF, EPS | MIDI, Music XML, WAV | |
| Files can be opened in | StarPlay | SmartMusic Studio | N/A | N/A | |
| Teacher Control (computer lab capable) |
No | Yes | No | Yes | |
| Support options | Phone, online forum, email | Phone, online forum, email | Email, Phone | Email, Phone | |
| Additional Info | Scores can be posted on Internet using the Sibelius Scorch plugin | Over 300 educational worksheets, range checking,magnetic layout | www.sionsoft.com/qse2lit.html Includes additional music editing views including audio, controllers, piano roll/drums and MIDI and audio mixers. Includes multi-track digital audio recording capability. Includes QuickAudio audio file editor. for complete specifications |
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Ron
All products make it pretty easy to transpose parts, using a quick keypress and then selecting the key that you want to transpose into. The thing that is more important is how you will get the notes into the computer in the first place.
Both Sibelius and Finale offer scanning options, which for scanning clean originals work pretty well. For scanning full scores you will need to buy the commercial version of the free scanning product that ships with each of them (SmartScore or PhotoScore).
If you don't mind entering everything in by hand then you would not need the scanning upgrade.