Notation Composer by Notation Software | 
 enlarge | From: Notation Software, Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: $149.95
Buy New: $125.95
You Save: $24.00 (16%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 7246
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Nt
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Me
Model: v 2.0
UPC: 821935108728
EAN: 0821935108728
ASIN: B000F6QDUK
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Easy to use, inexpensive to buy - Composer is designed by and for everyday musicians! | | • | Save money make your own custom arrangement for any song and print the score and parts for free. | | • | Spend your time capturing your musical ideas rather than drawing the notation. | | • | Get the look and sound you want for your music using musician-friendly tools. | | • | Have fun practicing! Composer highlights notes on the screen as they play and turns pages for you. |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Do you write your own music but have found other composition software too expensive or too difficult? Notation Composer is designed specifically for everyday musicians! Do you have a song thats close, but not quite right for you or your group? Composer lets you begin with a MIDI file and quickly and easily rearrange the notation or instrumentation just the way you want it all the parts are dynamically linked for you. Do you want your score to look great without wasting time positioning every item? Composer gracefully places symbols and formats the score so you can focus on making music. Do you want to print out the entire score, or just some parts? Composer easily and quickly does both. Are you a music teacher and need to set up practice exercises for your students? You can create practice pieces and set up custom practice sessions for your students. Spend your time capturing your musical ideas rather than drawing the notation. Play directly from your MIDI instrument and Composer faithfully transcribes it to notation. You can also use the convenient Step-time recording method or quickly point-and-click to add notes using your mouse. Listen to your music while you follow the notes on the screen, then edit the notation and/or the sound of the music. Composer lets you easily and fully edit both the notation and performance of your music scores right on top of the notation so you can see what youre hearing no sequencer technical knowledge required. Working on a seasons worth of music, or putting together a students folio? Use the handy Playlist feature to organize your work. Do you want to practice with the band? Composer highlights notes on the screen as they play, plays accompaniment as you practice, and turns pages for you. Your purchase includes (1) Free, fast, excellent technical support (2) Free updates within the entire main product release version.
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| Customer Reviews:
Virtual Manuscript Paper April 14, 2006
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Although I know of people who use Midinotate for instrumental practice or editing scores, I use it for the creation of original music, primarily symphonic. After many months of trying one after another of similar programs, I settled on Composer.
Basically, it offers an unlimited supply of virtual manuscript paper and easily learned tools to fill it, erase and re-write just as easily, and finally print the score. I am no printing maven, but the only actions I've found necessary to get a good print-out is to change to legal sized paper for the conductor's score when there are 20 plus staves. Since Composer offers a page view--which is essentially a print-preview that can be edited in the normal fashion--changes to the appearance, such as adjusting slurs so they don't cover notes, can be made before printing.
Perhaps best of all is that Composer is continuously developing, with most of the development in response to user needs. As easy to learn as it is, I find the internal Help file extremely well organized, indexed and cross-referenced. It is linked to the on-line help forum, which has a remarkably fast response time.
In short, one can do anything possible with a pen and blank manuscript paper, re-do it as often as necessary and achieve a result a calligrapher would be proud of. And of course hear it, too.
Easy to master Notation / Midi Editor April 1, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have been using Midi-Notate for over a year now and I rate it above the other more expensive packages. Note entry is easier and there are many ways to achieve it. It does not have all the bells and whistles of the top range packages but it has some unique features - like play the accompliment while displaying the tune and highlighting the note in real time. I use it to practise with my violin.
Best Bang For The Buck April 1, 2006
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you want an easy to use program that automates the most used jobs like printing out lead sheets, adjusting tempo's and pitch,volume levels, etc., this is the one to buy. It doesn't stop there. Adding lyrics is a breeze. All you do is click the lyric tool, and lyrics advance accurately as you type and click the space bar or tab button.
For the more advanced user, the toolbar allows for almost any kind composition. The downloaded and online help is very comprehensive, and layed out in sections to learn any of the many features, as well as a friendly , helpful forum.
I am a musician, and don't want to spend big bucks on the hard to learn programs, when this does it all for me.
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