I'm curious for people who write music, rather than type it, if they have preferences for lead softness. To that end I've been exploring technical pencils (called 'lead holders' or sometimes 'clutch pencils') in the 2mm size. SLIGHTLY OT but I find, as usual, in such cases to use pencil and paper. Not worth spending a million hours painstakingly entering notes which could be scrawled on some staff paper in a few minutes. I only use MuseScore for my rudimentary occasional use (puzzling out some old-school polyphonic music, really), but even when I had access to boxes running Sibelius or Finale, I found it enormously frustrating to have the default engraving style try to cluster notes (or voices, if you prefer) together which I wanted complete control over (the whole point of my use), while still using the grand staff.Īnd, no, I know about LilyPond engraving using text mark-up based on LaTex, but absolutely not. Also in Komp, I found no notation for eighth note triplets. After 2 notes, the app is resistant to adding more notes in a chord. For example, with Komp I've had difficulty notating chords with 3 or 4 notes in the right hand. All the promo photos show orchestral scores with single lines of notation. It appears to me these apps fall short when used for notating music for a piano score (the grand staff).

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