Logic scores and Quark compatability?

Question

Hi. I use Logic to mainly produce audio and up till now, I have always used Sibelius to produces the scores that my co-writer then imports to Quark, for publication. However can anyone advise whether the score production facility of Logic Pro is a) up to the quality of Sibelius and b) can scores be easily imported into Quark? I would ideally to be using one program ie Logic for both audio and score production. Thanks, Mark.

Answer 1

hi mark,
you 'can' create pretty professional scores in logic and it is possible to create EPS and PDF documents that you can view and manipulate in quark. logics score facility is very old and in desperate need of updating. we have had it on good authority that there will be some kind updating of logics score feature in the next big update whenever that will be.
i myself have produced plenty of concert music scores with logic and there are plenty of caveats and problems. in many areas logic is much faster to work with, and in others it is slower. on balance it is probably a bit faster, but the bits that slow you up are annoying.
you can read this:
http://www.stevenson.homechoice.co.uk/documents/LogicProScoreRequests.pdf
which will give you an overview of what it can and can't do and how to get around them and this:
http://www.stevenson.homechoice.co.uk/pdfscores/clayexcerpts.pdf
which shows you what can be achieved with some messing around and this:
http://www.stevenson.homechoice.co.uk/pdfscores/devil.pdf
which shows that you can produce a pretty smart looking full score. that said, sibelius being a dedicated notating program will be a touch better. its just that for ease of editing and composition and fantastic sounding mock-ups you can't beat logic. in fact, the mock up for 'devil' which you can hear on my concert music page, was produced directly from the score i printed. i worked out a way to make what was seen on screen sound exactly as it should - aprt from a few cheats.