Good Midi composers

[vince20100]

Hi all, I installed reaper, watched some tuts on youtubes and start playing with it a little. My question is though: is there a good midi composer I could use to make my midi tracks? Reaper uses the piano roll, but I would rather have a software that utilizes music notes. I know there's anchor and noteworthy, but so far my experience with those wasn't that great. I would like to have your thoughts and suggestions on what's the best software out there for that kind of work. Or any other suggestions you might have.

Thanks!

[Gravenspine]

Hi vince20100 , you can try Guitar Pro 5, you can export midi files directly from a music sheet where you write notes yourself.

Hope it helped.

[vince20100]

Thank you, but I played around with noteworthy again and got better results. I had a problem with reaper before but found out it was the vst's fault not noteworthy.

Thanks anyway

[markhansavon]

You mean notation?

I've used Sonar for the longest time now...I've always found that it's notation was better than Cubase's...I don't know about now, though, since I used Sonar 2.

You could try "Digital Audio Workstation" software: like Logic, Sonar, Pro Tools, or Cubase for that kind of thing. Again, I've always thought of Sonar to be the best for notation.

You could also try "Notation Software": like Finale or Sibelius. Finale Notepad is free.

[vince20100]

True, but you can't save in midi with notepad. Thanks for the suggestions, I also heard Auralia was good. But really, I like noteworthy, not too hard to use, easy to understand and since it's only to compose the midi tracks, I don't need something too complicated. All my remixing is done in reaper anyway. At first I thought my problem was with Noteworthy, but found out it was the soundfont vst, I didn't have any sound when I was importing my midi tracks. I changed it to sfz and everything works like a charm.

[OceansAndrew]

http://www.sonicspot.com/sequencers.html