Phil Edwards
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I use Finale (free version, not sure if there's a paid upgrade) and whilst it's great I find it really annoying that it just fits the bars to a page, rather than keeping to a constant layout (4 bars per line for example)
It makes reading phrases bloomin' awkward when it's not laid out in a logical fashion on the paper. For example, if you've got a bar with loads of quavers, it'll physically display that bar quite long (to fit them all in) but then a bars rest, or a semibreve, will be short simply because the notation doesn't take up much space.
So you end up with 3 bars on one line, then perhaps 7 on the next, then 5, and the structure of the music is all over the place. And if, because of that, the last bar is on it's own it stretches that bar, plus the notation, across the whole sheet!
Am I doing something wrong, do I need to pay for an upgrade, or is there something better out there?
Phil
It makes reading phrases bloomin' awkward when it's not laid out in a logical fashion on the paper. For example, if you've got a bar with loads of quavers, it'll physically display that bar quite long (to fit them all in) but then a bars rest, or a semibreve, will be short simply because the notation doesn't take up much space.
So you end up with 3 bars on one line, then perhaps 7 on the next, then 5, and the structure of the music is all over the place. And if, because of that, the last bar is on it's own it stretches that bar, plus the notation, across the whole sheet!
Am I doing something wrong, do I need to pay for an upgrade, or is there something better out there?
Phil