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Notation Composer version 2.5.2
- Edit sheet music that you download from free web sites.
- Write music notation using your MIDI instrument or mouse.
- Fine-tune the sound of every note in your songs.
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Notation Musician version 2.5.2
- Turn MIDI files into sheet music that you can format and print.
- Set up practice sessions and play along with "the band".
- Learn to read notation and see the notes as they play.
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Compare Notation Composer and Musician
Use the chart below to see the benefits of each.
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Search for songs, download their MIDI files, and turn them into beautiful sheet music. |
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Search the Internet for MIDI files, download, and unzip them using a built-in web browser. |
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Transcribe any MIDI file to sheet music with excellent accuracy, including detection of swing rhythms, grace notes, trills and tremolos. |
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Correct any errors that might exist in the transcription of the note rhythms. |
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Automatically analyze and display chord names. |
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Learn to read notation by seeing the notes as they play. |
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Watch the notes and lyrics highlight as they play on your screen. |
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Slow down the tempo so that you can learn how to read the notation and hear the notes better. |
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Temporarily increase the volume of one staff while decreasing the volume of other staves, so that you can focus your listening on a particular instrument or voice. "Solo" a staff while the others are muted. |
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Organize songs into playlists and play them back with Notation's built-in jukebox. |
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Set up practice sessions and play along with "the band". |
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Transpose the pitch of a vocal part to match your voice range. |
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Automatically turn pages as the song plays. |
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Set up practice loops to repeat a section of the song at optionally increasing tempos. |
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Remotely execute commands from your keyboard, such as Start Playback, End Playback, and Fast Forward. |
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Prepare sing-along karaoke parts, fakebook lead sheets, and more. |
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Prepare an "Easy Notes" part for student musicians, showing note letters (for example "C") in the noteheads. |
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Prepare a "Sing-Along" vocal part, for easy sight-reading while the song plays. |
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Prepare a fake book lead sheet part, with melody and chords. |
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Prepare piano reduction of a score that has multiple instruments or voices. |
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Extract individual parts for the players or singers in your music group. |
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Transpose an instrument's part to its natural key, such as for a Bb clarinet, |
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Split a single piano/keyboard staff into right- and left-hand staves. |
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Split a MIDI drum staff into separate one-line drum instrument staves. |
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Split a staff into melody and accompaniment parts. |
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Add lyrics, symbols, free text, and more to the sheet music for any song. |
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Add lyrics. |
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Edit note beams. |
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Transcribe the following types of ornaments:
- Grace notes
- Trills
- Tremolos
Temporarily display an ornament as written-out notes, or revert it to a written-out performance. |
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Add accent marks and articulations, dynamic marks, hairpin crescendo marks, slurs, pedal marks, and other special music symbols. |
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Add staff symbols: brackets and braces, clefs, key signatures, and barline types. |
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Add free text anywhere in the score. |
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Add rehearsal marks. |
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Add 8va octave marks. |
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Add repeat barlines and endings, which will be interpreted during playback. |
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Add special repeat directives, such as "D.C.", and specify the destination measure. |
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Format the sheet music, print the entire score, and print individual parts. |
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Edit and arrange the music notation, plus compose new songs with ease. |
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Play your MIDI instrument and get instant sheet music for your song. |
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The recording of your performance is transcribed using the same excellent MIDI-to-notation transcription technology that Notation Musician uses to transcribe MIDI files to sheet music. |
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Set up the tempo for recording. |
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Set up the number of pick-up measures. |
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Record (punch in) into a selected region of a staff. |
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Add (punch in) a recording of pitch bends or MIDI controllers, on top of notes previously recorded. |
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Fine-tune the sound of any note simply by drawing the effects with your mouse. |
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Notation Composer offers the features of a typical MIDI sequencer but in a more visual way -- you can edit the music performance from within the music notation. Notation Composer offers an intuitive and fun way to refine the details of the performance without requiring that you know details about MIDI nor requiring you to work with tedious numbers. |
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Edit the exact as-performed rhythms of notes while viewing Piano Roll Notation that is drawn on top of the notes. |
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Edit the loudness of individual notes while viewing "vectors" (lines drawn at an angle from each notehead) that graphically show the loudness of each note. |
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Snap ("quantize") the as-performed attack or release of a note to its notated rhythm. |
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Lock the as-performed rhythm of a note to independently change its notated rhythm. |
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Edit the underlying performance of ornaments: grace notes, trills, turns, tremolos, and arpeggios. |
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Graphically edit the song tempo. |
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Graphically edit the volume level, left-to-right pan, pedal, and pitch bend activity in a staff. |
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Graphically edit any MIDI controller data. |
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Notation Composer
$87.99 USD
Notation Musician
$37.99 USD
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