what program would be good for writing music (UPDATE: new DAWs to consider)

[Tactical Nuke]

right now I have Musescore, and I've tried Noteflight but they're both pretty bad in terms of sound quality and they don't seem to have basic musical functions like crescendos and decrescendos down

I don't give a forget about price

I want the best sound quality and the widest array of instruments you can get, along with as many features as possible to alter the music

I've already seen FL Studio 12 but I don't know if that's orchestral or not

/discuss

UPDATE: I recently had a talk with the music composition teacher at my college, he recommended several programs to me and mentioned a VST that pretty much all the professional movie composers use that I forget the name of

if anyone could figure that out I'd be a happy man

here's the list of programs he gave me (his handwriting is stuffty so bear with me)

• Cubase
• Sonar
• FL Studio
• Reaper
• Finale
• Sibelius

I'm planning on getting whatever program for Christmas, so the sooner I sort this out the better

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[Notorious B.I.G.]

garage band

[Tactical Nuke]

garage band

looks like it's just guitar and piano to me

oh and about a gazillion synths

[beachbum111111]

FLstudio

Pretty sure its orchestral though

[Couatl]

there's no such thing as an "orchestral" DAW, just VSTs that try to emulate orchestral stuff
so really any professional DAW that accepts VST plugins works; they all have basically the same features

[Tactical Nuke]

FLstudio

Pretty sure its orchestral though

yep
it is

anyone want to challenge this?
I want to see all my options

[Tactical Nuke]

so I've got:

FLStudio
MuseScore
Noteflight
GarageBand

in order from best to worst

I really need to know if there's anything else

[Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph]

you can use notepad and type out individual beeps and boops for a .midi

[Couatl]

p sure Ableton and Logic Pro X (if you have mac) can run VSTs if you're looking for DAWs like FL

[Nonnel]

Aren't there more instruments you can download for garageband/most music software

[Stick Man]

Aren't there more instruments you can download for garageband/most music software

Yeah but the ones with the really good sounding orchestral instruments are usually expensive as forget.

[Willymcmilly]

flstudio

flstudio

[DrenDran]

garage band

We used this in elementary school all time and it was the stuff. This is back when schools had mostly macs.

[ShadowsfeaR]

If you dont care about price and want to spend the most money possible on top tier virtual orchestral instruments, you need to get a DAW like Pro Tools and buy VST's like Albion or 8Dio's Orchestral Suite.

[auzman466]

FL Studio is probably your best bet

right now I have Musescore, and I've tried Noteflight but they're both pretty bad in terms of sound quality and they don't seem to have basic musical functions like crescendos and decrescendos down

Musescore has just about every musical notation you'd need for sheetmusic