EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Michael Karlsson wrote:
> You know that the notation should be able to be read from a printed paper
in
> the end! Tenorsax + Flute all with the right transposition and so on.

Hi Michael,

I'm not much into scoring (the few times I need \ufffdscoring these days I still
do it the old-fashioned pencil and paper way, usually working faster for
lead sheets), but I'd just compose away and when done I'd merge the two
tracks together and do a pure score version. From what I know many people do
it like that rather than composing along the score.
In the end you may find yourself ending up with 2 songfiles, but well, from
my past experiences with scoring inside the computer (which admittedly are
mostly based on Cubase's score part - I was using that when I've been
working on my diploma) it was allways a benefit having a "score only"
version. No need to care about "visual quantizing vs. real quantizing" and
so on.
I was used to "hard edit" all notes rather than just fumbling around with
the various visual options in the score editor. As I am a guitarist that
often was the only valid method anyways - I mean, whenever you do a bend
through MIDI, the source note will be displayed in the score, but proper
guitar notes require the target note to be written with an additional
bending remark. Similar things are valid for other instruments.

Finally, to me it seems that if you have to deal with different
transpositions handled by a single player, you'd better be off with two
different tracks anyways (that you might merge into one sheet of paper later
on). But then, I am sure some score experts would handle it different.

Regards,
Sascha