I did my first notation using a graphics program on a C-64. I bought
some software for it, and the following Commodore Amiga and Atari,
but I cannot remember the names of the (awful) software.
Than I used notator on Atari for quite a while.
Switching on a PC I began to use Finale (Version 1.6 or 2.0) and have
been using it since, and for notation (but not for other things) it
was much better than notator/creator. I have some sidestep experience
with capella, Sibelius, even Encore and others.
And I had to wait for years until I could import notator files into
pc logic. This whas my preferred sequencer program until it was
bought by apple and is not continued on PC since. However, in the
meantime I switched to Nuendo/Cubase, and all in all they are way
better and more logical than Logic.
Maybe I could get one or the other old name, but it's quite
difficult. But I remember quite well my first piece of music entered
in a Commodore-64' graphics program. I had to do every clef, every
note or rest myself before copying and pasting it into the pixel
graphic. And the lyrics. I had to manually adjust every syllable (ok,
I still have to do that in Finale 2006c, sometimes) manually until
getting an ugly, but adequate, printing output.
And when I think that I had to program the first printer driver
myself, before getting a (ok, better) software to print out my work...
Uff....
Kurt
At 00:48 05.01.2006, you wrote:
At 8:41 AM +1100 1/5/06, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote:
If there was some way to give them a whole lot of samples from
different programmes from across the years (preferably of the same
output?) that's always interesting I think. Going right back to
Professional Composer and the like in the end of the 80s.
Or how about Music Construction Set for the Commodore 64 from the
beginning of the '80s?
Even if you could find the programs--and I think it's a terrific
idea--it would be a huge problem finding the specific machines and
operating systems to run them. The MotU programs were Mac only,
Noteworthy Composer and probably others were Windows only, and in
the older generation you've got programs for the Commodore, Atari,
pre-Mac Apples, and of course the original Sibelius for the Acorn.
And the truly professional programs like Score needed, if I
understand it correctly, working directly in DOS or some such thing.
Still a great idea!
John
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