|
Welcome to Notation Musician!
In this documentation we will refer to this music software program as Musician for short.
Musician is a tool for converting certain types of music files to sheet music. Musician helps you find and download MIDI (.mid) and Karaoke (.kar) files from the Internet, and converts them to sheet music with amazing accuracy. You can print the music, view it on the screen, and sing or play along with it as the score is played. You can also extract particular parts for performers in your music group.
You likely will be able to learn how to use most of Musician's features by simply trying out menu commands and clicking buttons here and there. However, for a quick start in learning how to use Musician, we recommend going through the Quick Start Tutorial.
TIP: The most important tip we can offer you for getting started with Musician is to have fun exploring it! Explore Musician's menus, toolbar, and palettes by clicking items to learn what happens. If you do not like a result, you can always undo it.
Musician has a large number of options, but they are well organized to help avoid overwhelming you. You probably won't need all of the features of Musician. Don't worry that you're not using all of the features and options. When you accomplish your musical goals with Musician, and have fun doing so, then you will have taken full advantage of Musician. Many unexplored features of Musician will remain waiting for you for a later project!
Access the Notation Users Community Forum Via this User Guide!
Notation Software encourages an active community of Notation users at the web-hosted Notation Users Community Forum. At this forum you can ask questions about how to use Notation Musician or Notation Composer, share tips with other users, report software bugs and documentation errors, and suggest improvements to the product. The developer actively participates in the forum along with other musicians who use this software.
The Notation Users Community Forum is highly integrated with this Notation Musician User Guide. If you have a question about using Notation, navigate through the User Guide Table of Contents, shown on the left side of this window. Find the topic that is most closely related to your question. If you do not find the answer there, click the link at the bottom of the page in the User Guide that looks like this:
Visit the Notation Users Community Forum discussion on this feature
(NOTE: The above link takes you to the forum's table of contents rather than to a specific topics.)
Clicking the link at the bottom of any topic in this User Guide will take you to a corresponding topic in the Notation Users Community Forum. Topics in the forum are organized exactly as they are organized in the User Guide.
In the forum topic corresponding to a User Guide topic, you will find three sub-topics where you can:
 Ask a question or share tips with other Notation users.
Report a software bug or documentation error.
Request a feature enhancement or new feature.
You do not have to register in the forum to participate, including adding messages. However, you can register in the forum to automatically receive email notifications when other users or the developer have replied to your messages.
| 
