Customer Comments
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Here's a sampling of what our customers have told us about our products
and services. If you have comments for us, please
contact us.
Our new musicRAIN 2.0 interactive sheet
music application would not be the robust product it is today
without the latest technological developments from Recordare,
including the new Dolet export software that allows musicians to
export their scores into a musical standard, creating a composition
that is a near perfect replica of the original.
- Curtis Morley,
mediaRAIN
Recordare's MusicXML technology has
saved me an enormous amount of time and money in preparing my book.
I have rarely come across such attentive customer service and
willingness to achieve the best result possible with my file
conversions. The MusicXML format has been thoroughly designed and is
a big step forward in letting people share music. Fantastic work!
-
Simon Fox, fingerstyle
guitarist and composer
I submitted a Sibelius document for
conversion to Finale 2007. I thought I might receive a conversion
that I would have to fiddle with endlessly, but it appeared as if I
created it originally in Finale 2007. I will call upon this service
again in the future.
- Scott McIntosh, arranger
and freelance trumpeter, New York City
My experience with Recordare could not
have been a better one. The responsiveness was outstanding and the
conversion work was exactly as expected. They are truly a valuable
resource!!
-
John
Blane, Blane Music Preparation
Thanks for the timely turnaround and
really nice translation -- I feel a lot better about this big
project now!
- Brian Benison,
brianbenisonmusic.com Music
Preparation
One doesn't fully appreciate the enormous
amount of specialized information contained in a typical page of music
until you break it down bar by bar and compare an original with a
translation created using Dolet 4 for Sibelius. The accuracy and level
of detail is stunning. Not just the notes and rests and dynamics, but an
array of notation details like cautionary accidentals, cue-sized notes,
measure numbers, grace notes, tremolos - as well as the formatting of
the page itself. This is an amazing product.
- Robert Puff,
RPM Seattle Music Preparation
Dolet 4 for Sibelius is a welcome and
significant improvement over Dolet 3 for Sibelius. Dolet 4 for Sibelius
enhances the range of features which it is possible to export from
Sibelius and import successfully into other MusicXML-reading
applications. I can now shift choral scores from Sibelius into Myriad
Software's Virtual Singer with very little correction. Make Sibelius
sing with Dolet 4!
- Robin Walker,
University of Cambridge
The Dolet for Sibelius plug-in is amazing!
We are processing files like madmen here! Simply wonderful.
- Mats Frendahl,
TRUMPH AB
Keep up the good work. All of us in the
engraving business really need your products.
- Jeffrey Turner, engraver,
Alfred Publishing Co.
A huge congrats, kudos, etc. goes out to
Recordare. I just finished a new Tuba Concerto. It was originally in
Sibelius and took approximately 1 hour to move to Finale via MusicXML.
It came out to 50 pages long after cleaning it up. Thanks again to
Recordare for this product that has saved me more hours than I could
ever count!
- Bryan Doughty,
Cimarron Music Press
I absolutely LOVE your software! It's an
indispensable tool that I could not live without. I compose/orchestrate
for films and Dolet provides me with by far the most efficient way to
get music from a Cubase sequencer file into Finale.
-
Dave Metzger, composer and orchestrator
Dolet is great! I can now transfer files
between Sibelius and Finale without any problems. It's amazing software.
-
Rocky Kitamura, Music Innovation
Terrific products -- thank you for providing
a new musical lingua franca to help us use both Finale and Sibelius to
serve our clients to best advantage!
-
David Bailey,
composer and engraver
I am a professional music copyist and must
deal with composers of different platforms, programs, and versions all
of the time. Your Dolet for Finale product is a godsend. Many thanks!
- Lee Monroe,
Express Music Services
Thanks again for making such a great
product. You guys have saved me 2 lifetimes' worth of re-entering
torture.
- Joe Ferguson,
Georgia
Southern University
Both your Dolet programs are
really fantastic functioning plug-ins. It is a great help for me in my
work for music publishers.
-
Tomasz Trzciński, music
production
Recordare is accessible, the web
site is clearly organized and written, and the software, for those of us
who use music notation heavily, serves a vital purpose with commendable
reliability.
- Karl Krelove, music teacher /
clarinetist
Thanks to the Dolet plug-ins and MusicXML,
musicians no longer have to work in a notation program other than our
favorite. All it takes is a PDF for proofreading and a MusicXML file,
and all the tweaking can be done in your chosen music software.
-
David O'Rourke, jazz
guitarist
You are my heroes. You have
helped establish MusicXML to the point where we can use it to more
easily do something productive. Thanks for writing the Sibelius MusicXML
plugin. Now I can move on to the music analysis kinds of things I really
want to do.
- Gerald Brown, music/programmer
hobbyist
Word-processing and spreadsheet programs
have been sharing formats for years, so you can write in one program
and share your results with people who prefer something different.
Finally, the musical world has realised that it needs the same
thing. Its name is MusicXML.
- David Hewson,
The Sunday Times
The best way to convert Finale files to
Sibelius is definitely via MusicXML, particularly if you export the
MusicXML files from a recent version of Finale.
- Daniel Spreadbury,
Sibelius Software
MusicXML is without question the most
mature effort so far in using XML to encode music.
- Darin Stewart,
Electronic Musician
Among all the music file formats I
analyzed, MusicXML appears to be the most powerful and flexible.
Great job!
- Didier Guillion,
Myriad Software
Looking for a means for adding notation
support to my upcoming music composition package, I finally decided
not to reinvent the wheel and to limit notation support to an
excellent export feature. Therefore, I came across MusicXML, which I
believe is a perfect approach. Thank you for making this great work
available to the public.
- Andre Schnoor,
Cognitone
Not since MIDI made its debut in the 1980's
has the music software industry seen such a revolutionary and useful
tool. MusicXML is the Rosetta Stone of music notation software.
- Robert Puff,
RPM Seattle Music Preparation
A very important benefit of all of your
hard work on MusicXML as far as I am concerned is that I use it as a
clear, structured and very ‘real-world practical’ specification of
what music ‘is’ in order to design and implement my application’s
internal data structures. It is easy using an XML reader library (I
am using C# and .NET 3.5 under Windows Vista) to parse the elements
that I can deal with now whilst skipping anything too fancy/detailed
which I will deal with in some later version. I can be confident
that your ‘implicit specification’ of music is helping me to avoid
foolish decisions in my design through lack of knowledge on my part!
- Jay Chapman, Teesside
University, Centre for
Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Thanks go to Recordare for developing
MusicXML. I have been able to make a lot of progress implementing
FreeDots based on MusicXML in a very short time. This is mostly
because MusicXML has a very clear distinction between the graphical
representation of musical events, and their sound representation. If
you are yourself blind, developing music notation conversion
software is extremely complicated, since you can't actually look at
the source material you are working with. MusicXML has helped me a
lot in this regard, and I've learned a lot about the notational
conventions sighted people use since I started to develop FreeDots.
- Mario Lang,
FreeDots
developer
WOW! Never expected such a quick
response! All I can say is a big thank you. You folks sure know how
to create loyalty to your company. Continued success with all your
products. I'll be popping on your site more often to see what you're
up to and offering. And I WILL be talking your company up.
- Cliff Panetta,
musician/teacher
Wow! Now that's fast service! We have
been impressed with your Dolet plugins for some time. We are now
equally impressed with your customer service.
- Danita Ng-Poss and Jason
Poss, Sarawak Songs
I was thrilled to find the piece I was
looking for, and not having to buy an entire book of selections for
just the one song. And I loved being able download it right away.
My son was required to have sheet music
on his strings project and this was a wonderful way to obtain the
music. Thank you!
I was in an immediate need for a copy of
sheet music and was able to download it almost as fast as I am able
to type this review. Very impressed.
I needed Schubert's Ave Maria quick!
There it was. Credit card, a few clicks and I had it in my hands.
Great quality too.
Thank you - it was easy and great. Will
give to my granddaughter who plays piano.
Transaction was fast, efficient, and
perfect. Purchased a print only which I was able to print within a
minute of purchasing. Would buy again without hesitation.
It's a fantastic idea. Especially for
travelers like me.
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