The instruments on Sibelius work for giving an idea of how the music sounds, but are entirely unsuitable for creating digital music.
That said, I'm looking for both software, and a helpful tutorial (especially the last part, because I've downloaded a bunch, but have no idea how to input notes and use voices).
My assets:
Musical knowledge (as a violinist)
Laptop
What I do not have:
a MIDI keyboard
piano playing ability
What I'm looking to do is write digital music, and I'm interested in finding something that can use a wide range of quality digital instruments (from brass, to woodwind, to strings, to percussion, to electric guitar) and can allow me to manipulate dynamics and tempo fairly well. It'd have to be something that I'd be able to do with just a laptop, because I don't have a MIDI keyboard or any ability to play the piano. I may very well have downloaded something like this, but I can't figure out these other programs, so I wouldn't know... (For reference, Sibelius has you input notes onto sheet music, so that's what I'm familiar with. Everything else, I'm probably ignorant of.)
I think I've repeated myself a couple times in this post, so I apologize for that, and I thank you all in advance for your help (and tolerance of this relatively long post
).
