What app can i use to write and print sheet music?

Question

Hmm, i didnt think about mspaint

Answer 1

Finale Notepad is free, for Mac and P.C. it's not ultra powerful, I wouldn't want to do an orchestral score, but the price is right.

http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/

Finale is powerful, and fairly expensive too.

Sibelius, is a little less expensive, and a little easier to use, but similar in what it can do. It's popular with a lot of people these days, most pros are dedicated Sibelius or Finale users.

Answer 2

There are several free apps. The one I used was Harmony but it may have been a 30 day trial.
Enter "free notation software in Google" and look at each of the results. Finale was a very good one but quite expensive. I see they now have a free version. I think I tried Noteworthy, so check that one out also. There's heaps of programs that will create sheet music as you play, provided you have a midi keyboard. Have a look at Powertracks at http://www.pgmusic.com. It's only $49 and it's mighty powerful. Also have a look at Band -In-A-Box on the same site. That's a lot of fun also. Both have 30 day free trials and they're a great mob to deal with. Neither are designed to write notes in by hand, but Powertracks will do it. Harmony was probably a better choice but I don't know if they're still around. I just did a search on "midi notation" and found dozens more. Also look at guitarPro. You can enter notation and play it back with that app. Your world is an oyster!

Answer 3

Properly printing sheet music is one of the more complicated processes, especially since most people who want the output want it to look like the best hand transcribed or hand set type material. Do a web search on 'music transcription software' and begin exploring what they do.
A quick review reveals that available programs have improved phenomenally since a decade ago including OCR of printed music, listening to music and producing notation and notation editing.