if anyone needs a music maker program, click here

dang. I was hoping it was free. how much is the latest version? are the upgrades free? thanks a lot for the info, lenny.

You'll have to search long and hard to find something that is free and matches Sibelius.

The latest version is Sibelius 4 and is around $600. You can get minor upgrades for each version (for example, a new playback function or a new MIDI set), but can't upgrade from Sibelius 3.1 to Sibelius 4.

http://www.sibelius.com/cgi-bin/home/home.pl

Hrm, intresting.
I've always considered toying with a music creating program..

If you're a beginner and start to use Sibelius, then you have as much chance as a snowball in hell.

Sibelius is primarily for writing out your music in note form - sheet music. And it does it abnormally well.

If you just want to use it to create MIDI's then it is a real waste of space and time. Instead use what sciencekid has recommended. It's a good program for just churning out single instrument MIDIs. There are probably other programs that can make many instrument MIDIs, and I believe you might be able to do in Anvil, but oh well...

So, recap:

Beginners (who know nothing or very little about the theory of music and what not) - Use Anvil
Musicians (who know some of the theory to all of it) - Use Sibelius

Any usable links with anvil? Ive been meaning to learn to make music on the computer, because im sick of using copywrited music in the movies I make. If I was to submit them into a film festival, I would be fucked.

Plus, I choose not to use copywrited music, because 99.999% of the time it sounds like my groin. Though when im first using the music program, it probably will too, but still.


Anyways, any links?

yes actually there is. I finally got around to finding the original site. and here it is!
--> http://www.anvilstudio.com/upgraden.htm <-- sorry about the wait also, I think it can only produce midis though. i'm not sure about waves though. plz check to be sure

It is only MIDI.

The chances are that you'll be able to find a program somewhere that will allow you to save and/or export tracks as wavs, or you could try and find a MIDI to wav, or to MP3 convertor.

I've never been able to remember whether it's converter with an "er" or with an "or"...my spell checker usually sorts it out.

I wonder if it's possible to create a spell checker for the forums...it'd sure help with all the typos...