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I'm relying on Finale for playback, and I'm doing it right. If you prefer DAWs, that's your preference. There is no right or wrong way to do such complex things as composing / notate music / generate audio, everyone has his own preferences. Working with a notation program and then using a DAW for the audio has been a pain for me so I opted for an all-in-one software. Soundfonts lacks important features compared to VSTs, but that's not what I was talking about anyway. I was referring to playback utilities like "Human playback" and others, that MuseScore doesn't have. Playback is the very last thing on their priority list, so if the original poster here was searching for a "free Sibelius", I just mentioned that MuseScore is very good for what concerns notation, and not good for playback.

MuseScore 2.0 is perfect for notation. Forget it for composition / playback.

@johnbucket WinterHorizon was obviously talking about question number 1.

That's what I wanted to know. I'll use 1 then since it better reflects my original idea (a kind of "free tempo introduction"). Yup, my thoughts, but just wanted to be sure.

Question 1 (fermata): Which one do you prefer? (in case you're wondering, 2 is correct: the 3/4 meter is just implied) My main concern is if this use of the fermata is correct, since we know that generally it is used when a section of the piece ends (and the performer kind of takes a breath), or when the piece itself ends (final chords taking how long you want, for emphasis). Question 2 (acciaccatura): Knowing that the correct way to notate a slur is: how do you notate an acciaccatura?

Thanks you pateceramics, you make a good point.

"Sempre" means "always". So "sempre staccato" means that you have to play staccato the entire part/section. But in italian it also means "again", "still", "even now". My question is, can "sempre" be used as a reminder? For example, a section is "più mosso". After let's say two pages, to make clear to the performer that he/she shouldn't slow down, can I write "sempre più mosso"? With the intention of saying "you still have to play più mosso!". Or will it be interpreted as "from now on, play even more fast"? Or will it be interpreted as "keep going more and more fast"? Since "sempre più" also exists and have a different meaning.

Sure, efficient as having all in one-software. Really, it's stupid to bicker about this, it's not that I'm right and you're wrong or anything, it's simply that I need something which you don't need. I regret having opened this topic, that's sure lol. But you never know, maybe tomorrow comes a guy which knows a software which has all the things I've written in the first post. XD

It's not that it does any harm. I tried. LOL does Sibelius has Pianoroll? Nice to know. EDIT lol it looks like you have to click it one by one.

Those are not solutions, those are workarounds. You can found hundreds of topics like that, for all the other software too, where a user needs a specific functionality and the only thing he gets are workarounds which are far from what they actually want. The rant was specifically about this. But afterall, it's just a rant, indeed, there's actually not much point in making this topic, because you cannot convince me to use any software since what I've shown in my first post is impossible to find into any package. It's fun that U238, who I would invite to tone down, is attacking me when even the first point in my topic, which is "having a pianoroll", can't be find in Finale/Sibelius/others; maybe he thinks I'm saying "all these software sucks", but I'm not, I'm just saying "I would like to have a software which does this, this, and this", which I must admit though it's pretty silly; it is, afterall, again, just a rant, written because I got bored in developing what I need myself, since it's a long work. Not much area for discussion; I can only find some guys like p7rv who feels limitations in current software too, but that's it, it's not that you can't do anything about it. Keeping explaining though, just for the sake of it: you CAN do almost everything with the current programs, the thing is how, how easily and fast. You all correctly mentioned shortcuts and plugins, and you're right, but still you can't expect to be able to edit note velocities and CC events in the same beautiful way you can do it in a DAW. And that's just a fact. And it's not even a fault of those program, because they're indeed notation software before anything else.

I've used it for years to make tracks of any kind of musical genres. Cons are the old and extremely incomplete MIDI file support (not a big deal generally) and setting the meter/tempo (which compared to Reaper, for example, it sucks), but this last thing could have changed in the last versions, I don't know because I don't use it anymore. It's sure the best program if you do dance-like type of music. Very intuitive and fast, I used to love it a lot. Also, it has the best pianoroll you could ever hope to find around. Not that it couldn't still be improved though. As a kid I produced stunning stuff with it and I've had a lot of fun.

Composing software? None at all. Even paying. Notation software? I suggest MuseScore too. Easy and quick to use, runs fast, produces nice beautiful looking scores. The more you work with it and the more you set shortcuts and stuff the more it gets better.

Reaper has the worst MIDI editor I've ever seen. In the forums they insists a lot on that, so hopefully they will solve that.