https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/ en Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:05:49 +0000 hourly 1 FeedWriter https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52913 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:05:49 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52913 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52912 Wed, 28 May 2008 11:01:04 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52912 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52910 Wed, 28 May 2008 06:05:43 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52910 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52909 Wed, 28 May 2008 04:01:29 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52909 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52908 Wed, 28 May 2008 03:51:07 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52908 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52907 Wed, 28 May 2008 02:58:19 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52907 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52905 (MagicScore School) Does not even compare remotely with Band In the Box, which does everything I need... well 'duh' mister lobster, BIAB comes in different packages. The cheapest is $100, unless you want to buy an old edition, and the prices go all the way to a $550 'Audiophile edition'. Seriously, tell me how you can seriously compare a $30 product to a $500 one. At any rate, even though I have Realtek's HD 7.1 in board sound, I can't (and couldn't on the previous version) get MagicScore to detect anything but the MIDI music playback. Upon closer inspection the MIDI playback is the 'Microsoft Wavetable' device and when I open the information of the Wavetable it states that it is using the RealTek card. My surround sound card has never given me any problems. I keep the drivers up-to-date and I get great surround on all the games that support it, but when I run a playback on MagicScore the output comes out as stereo sound from the two front speakers only. The weird thing is that the playback of the same MagicScore files played on the version installed on the VirtualBox it uses all 5.1 speakers. Other than that I have found no other problems running MagicScore. I tried some of the examples and everything that is not blocked works fine. I tried making a simple song and it worked without a glitch. The sound quality seems to be above par and the interface is easy and intuitive to use. I hope I am wrong about this version having less features because I could have kept the older version installed on the host OS and the new one on the VirtualBox which didn't have the older version installed. Live and learn. Also I want to find out what's wrong with the 5.1 channels because I think that it is possible to make use of them to create better music. Meanwhile I will keep using the VirtualBox version. I'm done, AxCut]]> Wed, 28 May 2008 00:24:05 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52905 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52904 Tue, 27 May 2008 22:53:38 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52904 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52903 And after all, isn't that one of the main reasons that GAOTD exists? BTW - I fooled around with this in the background while writing this. Keep in mind that while it seems to import MIDI files okay, it does seem to affect initial timbre and volume settings. Case in point - loading Abacab by Genesis into MagicScore lowered the bass to zero on playback. The same file played perfectly okay on VanBasco's Karaoke Player. (Which I highly recommend - it's freeware, has a player piano so you can actually see the notes as they play, and supports lyrics) http://www.vanbasco.com/karaokeplayer/ for those of you who would like to try it.]]> Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:09 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52903 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52902 Tue, 27 May 2008 21:37:51 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-school-5342/#comment-52902