A long time ago I used Noteworthy Composer, which was so easy to use I often utilized it to make compositions, to test if my college assignments sounded OK, to try out music of which I had it on sheet but had no idea how it was supposed to sound (this was before Youtube)... I lost NWC after a major computer crash. That was four years ago.
I've tried to use others. I couldn't get anything out of Beethoven. Finale is the one university made us use (teacher gave all of us an illegally copied version), which is a lot trickier to use than NWC. Partially because it uses different shortcuts. Plus mine is an old version: 2003 (teacher didn't feel right about copying the most recent version).
MuseScore composer is OK for freeware but it jammed a lot and it wouldn't make triplets.
GiveAway Of The Day recently gave away a special offer valid one day only: Magic Score Note 7. It's been a right pain in the neck: it occasionally jams and the shortcut programming is extremely bad (eg if you want to save your elbow and use the keyboard to enter the notes, you can only stay in the same octave and use hemidemisemiquavers). And of course because it was a special one-time offer I'm not entitled to get updates or help from the makers.
Sooo... question is: are there any decent ones you can easily use as both score-writer and composing tool, preferably with keyboard input?
