Notation software

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> It can definitely handle complex polyrhythms. It's great if you
> like
> composing on paper and then transferring to a pretty publish-able
> score. (Unlike Finale/Sibelius, that try to be composing
> environments.)
>

I use Finale. Yes, it costs money, but these days it's extremely flexible and sophisticated. Tuplets of any complexity are no problem whatsoever. And you can notate them in almost any way you like. (The only issue might be barring/beaming/tupletting across the barlines, but I doubt that any other notation program handles that very well. And finale CAN do it, but it does require some trickery). You can also do space=time notation, and cutout scores fairly easily. You can also do wierd time-signatures like 9/10, etc.

I believe Finale still wins over Sibelius if you want to put wierdo graphics in your score (like I use a bunch of different symbols and so on to signify computer-music textures.)

I should also say that I don't use Finale/Sibelius as a "composing environment" at all . . . I don't play MIDI into my computer (I don't eben own a MIDI keyboard), etc. etc.

Here's an example, with tuplets up the wazoo:
http://works.music.columbia.edu/~chris/balladei/balladei.pdf

Check out this piano part:
http://works.music.columbia.edu/~chris/sacramento_mornings/sacremento6.pdf

Graphical pictures to represent computer-music textures:
http://works.music.columbia.edu/~chris/pipes/pno.elec.w.guitar.pdf

Anyways, it works for me.

C B