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Just recently netted myself a SNES (PAL) console, and preparing to buy games for it. Any suggestions of really good games (not including the obvious hits) that are kind of obscure but worth finding?

The main difference I notice from having both Finale PrintMusic (the less expensive) and Finale 2014 is that 2014 comes with Garritan sounds which cost plenty money on their own, and PrintMusic uses SoftSynth sounds which are not great.... but if you want to hear how your document sounds with Garritan you can ask someone with Finale 2014 (like me!) to run it through and make an audio file.

Also, this is probably technically illegal and do it at your own risk, but you can claim to be upgrading from a previous product and just type in a random serial code and you can get a significant discount, but it's probably not worth it for the trouble.

PrintMusic served me well until I started to write much more serious music and I needed better visualisation of how things sound etc.

Of course there are other differences but they can be found on the make music website

EDIT: I am kind of biased towards Finale because I don't like the Sibelius interface as much, that doesn't mean it isn't good, but I can't write how it compares to Finale very well.

I've been using Ninheetmusic since 2014.... so not as long but my first sheet I played was Bouy Base Galaxy from Mario galaxy, so I searched around for a bit, got a sheet but there weren't any other sheets so I just searched for nintendo sheetmusic. It was, ahem, is amazing, and I didn't realise there was a forum [lol dumb] but yeah, it's done me geat service

I kinda think it makes it more special when you do decide to spend your money, cause when I bought Xenoblade Chronicles X (£50.00000000000000) I hadn't bought a game for, like, three months and I enjoyed it so much and feels more worth the money rather than having stacks of VC or Wii games

Anyone still have any interest in Dai Gyakuten Saiban now? cause there are subbed playthroughs now and since it (props) won't come over to here as localisation would be.... difficult (whoa Wright is from Japan, even though the english versions say he's american)

So might as well watch


Oooooooooobjection

because of the key the tune starts in (e minor) there should only be one recurring sharp that you would need to worry about, so usually, when the bass is a major triad then yes there will be sharps

....sorry I don't feel I've explained very well

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Does the base line go eighth1-eighth2-eighth1-eighth2-quarter1? "2" being an unknown note that's higher than "1", also unknown. I have the pattern as eighthD-eighthF-eighthD-eighthF-quarterD

As far as I can tell the bass line is definitely 8th+8th+8th+8th+8th+8th (straight quavers) and they're based around a triad sometimes in major and sometimes in minor. When there is a harmonising note to the bass note it seems to be a major third above the top note of the triad making a minor into major effect (or vice versa). Using the way you wrote it above I would say: eighth1-eighth2-eighth3-eighth2-eighth3-eighth2 in mostcases, with the first note being covered by a guitar (it's not a rest) but I might just be hearing things 

Is Finale easy to get used to?

I would say so but I haven't used notepad I started with Finale PrintMusic 200(?, it's based around different windows containing specific 'tools' that's easy to navigate (and in my opinion much quicker)

Hope I have helped, somehow 

btw nice signature

spewpa is definitely THE best pokemon ever

k thanks, I'll see how it looks

Btw.....

Is this song (which I took to be 8/4) mainly 2+2+2+2 beats or 3+3+2. I'm currently arranging it and need to know where the strong beats are. I have a hunch that it swaps in and out several times in the piece but just need someone to verify. The first bit is defiantly 2+2+2+2 but then there are the chords...

yeah, I would have chosen to play cello (57.7 b) but violin was cheaper so I went with that, but at school i was the only boy, would be nice to see 50/50 over all instruments

nice data

buuuuuut to be honest it doesn't surprise me (is that a bad thing?)

violin: 66% g, 34% b  ----  at least some other boys are like me (violin is amazing btw)

In response to Zeila...

I'm pretty sure the diamond/pearl legendary trio theme starts in c minor but then has some funky modulations into majors and then back into minors so from an 'avoiding accidentals' point of view c minor would probably be the best.

Shovels seems to be based around  Db major (at least that works most when playing the piano whilst it's playing)

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It's not the same model of computer but I found this link ( https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/48824/Vertical+line+on+screen+(possibly+stuck+pixels)%3A+likely+causes ) 'thanks nocturne' which is someone who seems to be having the same problem with the bands, however I don't know about the headphones.

It could be that it's just been used a lot, on my W8 laptop I managed to break my usb slot by overuse but it's not the same issue so might have no relation

Also try referring to the lines as bands, again might not make a difference but supposedly that's what they're called. Not everything I've said here is definitive, just giving you a few options (I'm not a tech expert)

I'll have a go at Brandished Flavour and Rigorous Justice, but I can't promise they'll be done quickly, as I have other arrangements that I'm working on right now, I'll see what I can do