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From: ramsiri@blake.u.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: about to buy - Stacy & music
Summary: NOTATOR, FINALE, ENCORE
Message-ID: <11514@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 90 18:26:18 GMT
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In article <7340037@hpfcso.HP.COM> mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella) writes:
>>I am about to purchase a Stacy for use use with some music projects of mine.
>
>
>There is a package in the UK called "Take Controls Music Publisher".
>
What is this package.. ? is there a demo available?


>Encore, a Mac program, has been ported to the ST, and it seems very full
>featured, although it doesn't have tightly integrated sequencing as does Dr. T
>and Notator.  Still no word on whether Notator supports Laserjet's yet - their
>tech support guy hasn't called me back.
>

I have left several messages with the people at Passport Designs trying to
get information and a demo of ENCORE for the ST...  all i get are machines
and answering machines and so on... no one calls me back...

I have been using NOTATOR for over 2 years.  But the one MAJOR flaw with 
the program has finally forced me to get into something else... if not
to change over to a MAC and FINALE.  

Problem:  with NOTATOR, one can NOT (unless someone can correct me on this)
display MORE than 2 independent voices on a SINGLE staff.  This is 
absoulutely necessary for scoring classical guitar.  NOTATOR provides
for 2 independent voices for each staff in a grand staff display.  This
works wonderfully for 4 part chorales...  but when you get into 
more complex piano scores (over treble and bass clef) or into 
multi-voice guitar parts on a single treble clef, you are f'ed.
FINALE for the mac allows this.  I would rather invest in ENCORE 
than change platforms, if ENCORE will do what i need on the ST..
i'll keep NOTATOR for sequencing and use ENCORE for publishing.
Otherwise I'll have to go to the MAC and wrestle with a ridiculous
user interface : FINALE's, just because of the one factor.  

I spoke with Mikhail .. the US rep for C-LAb about this several times.
He states that it is very unlikely we'll see an update to NOTATOR
for another 8 months or more... and that "my" problem had never been
presented to him before.. that if only a few people see the need for
the "fix".. it won't be done.

BTW: My GCR supposedly will run FINALE.. but, of course, not run 
the midi functions.  Since i have an older 1040 4MB, the new
Megatalk board by Gadgets won't due me any good.  

-kevin