Creating sheetmusic from Reason

[Marco Raaphorst]

I am looking for tips how to quickly get some sheetmusic out of Reason. Only looking for the melody + chords symbols (Real Book style). Being able to add lyrics would be killer too.

[ScuzzyEye]

MuseScore? You'd have to export the MIDI from Reason and import it into MuseScore.

I do things the other way around quite a bit, take sheet music, input it into MuseScore, and then have MuseScore spit out the MIDI that I then import into Reason.

[Marco Raaphorst]

Thanks. I see these paid options but find them confusing: https://musescore.com/upgrade Is this like a cloud service?

[ScuzzyEye]

I guess it's like SoundCloud, but for sheet music. I just use the editor, without any online saving or sharing.

[Marco Raaphorst]

aha, thanks man! sound cool.

[boggg1]

I did an extensive comparison a few years ago and found Finale products to be hugely superior to any other at the time (for the specific task of converting Reason MIDI into sheet music). In particular it was better than Sibelius and Musescore at that time. Luckily they did a cut down version of their mega-suites called Notepad which did enough for me. I see Notepad is now free although it now only handles 8 instruments simultaneously and not guitar chords. Then there are also paid-for upgrades (Finale Songwriter etc) which offer extra capabilities.

Here is the web site (still there after so many years) which I used to identify the software I compared:
http://www.skytopia.com/project/articles/notation.html

You would have to check it out again because I bought it quite a few years ago but hey, Notepad is free ! If you will keep using it I would compare a few programs because there was no doubt which was best when I did the comparison. Notepad ruled. If you're just doing this once then forget it.

Incidentally the playback facility in Notepad was truely terrible and editing a score (once converted) was doable but not pleasant !

[MannequinRaces]

I haven't used SCORECLOUD personally but might be something worth looking into: http://scorecloud.com.