Music Software and AI

by dolomuse | Dec 19, 2018 | technology |

A humorous and informative perspective on the idiosyncrasies of Sibelius music scoring software. This video shows, from a software designer/musician’s perspective, that we are not alone in feeling that music software can be very unintuitive and user-hostile. I infrequently use many music-related programs (Finale, Sibelius, Illustrator, Logic, Cubase, Final Cut) and always feel like I am starting from zero in remembering the logic of each software design.

For maximum flexibility and efficiency, I always work with paper and pencil until a composition is completed. Then I struggle through the (forgotten) nested submenu’s and keyboard shortcuts of Finale to create a monochromatic score, which then has to be converted into image files of each page and imported into a vector graphics editor for polychromatic note coloring. Illustrator has a completely different system of submenus, shortcuts and command meanings (i.e. “place” instead of import).