The best program for making music?

[Legolessed]

I have been using musescore 2 for making music but I'm looking for something where I can just play the violin or piano and have it record it into sheet music if this is possible. I heard some people say logic but that's only for osx and I'm using windows sooo. Anyways also if there was an application that would also not only have just the straight sheet music like musescore but would have almost like the garage band interface but on desktop windows. Basically where it had the piano on the left side where you could check notes and then write a bar that would represent the note and then you would just expand or retract the bar but you could customize everything very quickly and then convert it into sheet music. Sorry if these are impossible requests but I'm just curious. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

[Enderman]

FL studio?

[1re]

FL Studio is what I've heard is pretty common for windows http://www.image-line.com/flstudio/, don't really know it too well personally having only used Logic Pro X but I know a lot of people use it

[1re]

EDIT: sorry for double post my internet freaked out and idk why I can't delete this

[scottyseng]

If I remember right, Sonar does it (Well, at least it lets you make notes onto a sheet view. I forgot if it shows already existing notes in a sheet view, but I'm pretty sure it does).

 

Indeed, Logic is quite popular for Mac OSX for sure.

[thrilledtear]

8 minutes ago, scottyseng said:

If I remember right, Sonar does it (Well, at least it lets you make notes onto a sheet view. I forgot if it shows already existing notes in a sheet view, but I'm pretty sure it does).

 

Indeed, Logic is quite popular for Mac OSX for sure.

sonar is sadly being discontinued.... ableton is great

[Legolessed]

24 minutes ago, 1re said:

FL Studio is what I've heard is pretty common for windows http://www.image-line.com/flstudio/, don't really know it too well personally having only used Logic Pro X but I know a lot of people use it

 

8 minutes ago, scottyseng said:

If I remember right, Sonar does it (Well, at least it lets you make notes onto a sheet view. I forgot if it shows already existing notes in a sheet view, but I'm pretty sure it does).

 

Indeed, Logic is quite popular for Mac OSX for sure.

 

34 minutes ago, Enderman said:

FL studio?

thank you so much! I'm downloading fl studio now so we shall see how well it works. Thanks!

[scottyseng]

Just now, thrilledtear said:

sonar is sadly being discontinued.... ableton is great

Oh really? Dang, that sucks. Sonar was the only one I knew how to use (my other friend uses Cubase).

[Griunvaldas]

Ableton will do an trick. I started using it because only at Ableton I've found how to export audio to file (failed to do this at FL)

[noahdvs]

On 12/23/2017 at 1:59 AM, Legolessed said:

I have been using musescore 2 for making music but I'm looking for something where I can just play the violin or piano and have it record it into sheet music if this is possible.

Eh... Maybe technically possible if you use a tool to try to translate recorded audio into MIDI, but absolutely not worth the effort. You would need to do a lot of cleanup on the MIDI data. However, you can record directly to MIDI if you use a keyboard with a MIDI output. That would be pretty easy and you don't even need to buy fancy software for that.

On 12/23/2017 at 1:59 AM, Legolessed said:

[...] Anyways also if there was an application that would also not only have just the straight sheet music like musescore but would have almost like the garage band interface but on desktop windows. Basically where it had the piano on the left side where you could check notes and then write a bar that would represent the note and then you would just expand or retract the bar but you could customize everything very quickly and then convert it into sheet music. Sorry if these are impossible requests but I'm just curious. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

What you described there is commonly called a "piano roll". FL Studio has arguably the best piano roll of any DAW. Some professionals buy FL Studio just so that they can use its piano roll inside of other DAWs (via VST plugin). FL Studio's piano roll can export scores as MIDI and as PDF sheet music via Lilypond, but you should probably just export MIDI and import it into Musescore just to make sure any sheet music you make is correct.

[noahdvs]

6 hours ago, Griunvaldas said:

Ableton will do an trick. I started using it because only at Ableton I've found how to export audio to file (failed to do this at FL)

File->Export

[Warachnid]

On 12/23/2017 at 1:59 AM, Legolessed said:

I have been using musescore 2 for making music but I'm looking for something where I can just play the violin or piano and have it record it into sheet music if this is possible. I heard some people say logic but that's only for osx and I'm using windows sooo. Anyways also if there was an application that would also not only have just the straight sheet music like musescore but would have almost like the garage band interface but on desktop windows. Basically where it had the piano on the left side where you could check notes and then write a bar that would represent the note and then you would just expand or retract the bar but you could customize everything very quickly and then convert it into sheet music. Sorry if these are impossible requests but I'm just curious. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

Bitwig studio is a pretty lit DAW. 

[Griunvaldas]

On 1/4/2018 at 9:51 PM, noahdvs said:

File->Export

Lul let's download FL then