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MusEdit is a powerful yet inexpensive music notation editor. Use MusEdit to write standard treble and bass music notation, tab notation for 2 - 8 string instruments in any tuning (including bass), rhythm notation, lyrics in any font, and to draw chord diagrams -either from a chord dictionary or by creating your own. You can also use MusEdit to translate standard music notation to tab, or vice versa; transpose; play your music as sound; print beautiful looking scores, and more... Plus, MusEdit comes with a printed, well illustrated, 284 page manual.
Version 3.90 features in MusEdit include...
Chord Line features
- Multiple dots can be put on each string on chords for fretboard/scale diagrams
- Can now show chord diagrams/scale diagrams up to 10x normal size
- Each chord line can have different chord name font and different size diagrams
Evenly Space Notes
- You can automatically space out notation in each line, or over the whole score according to how dense you like the notation to be.
Allow different fonts in different rhythm lines
- People writing instructional material can put musical symbols, internet links, brackets, boxes, and many other flexible features in a line with any font you want.
Internet links can be embedded in MusEdit scores
- You can put links to your personal web site, music sites, etc. in MusEdit scores
Auto-join note clusters now have joining options
- 8th+8th+8th, 8th+8th+8th+8th, and several others, including "based on time signature"
Line Length option
- After changing the length of lines you might want to either rearrange the music in the line to space it out evenly, or else throughout the score with wrapping and even symbol spacing.
Ad-Tab Fingering Symbols!
- Standard tablature indicates which fret and string should be used to play notes, but it does not provide any information about which finger on the fretting hand should be used to play the notes. Ad-Tab (“Advanced-Tab”) is a system which can optionally be used with standard tablature to show this fingering information in an easy to see manner. This system of symbols is useful for beginning students - it shows them how to fret the notes, and it also makes the score fun to look at!
Plus...
- Automatic translation of any chord diagrams into any new tuning
- All chord diagrams can be transposed into any key
- Support for "swing time" in Midi playback
- Choose any font for chord names above chord diagrams
- And many more...
Also, be sure to check out the MusEdit music library for free downloadable scores in many different styles (classical, folk, jazz, etc.) sent in by current MusEdit users. By checking the library's "Quick Views" you will be able to see the many different types of music you can edit with MusEdit, and if you download the demo version of MusEdit you can open scores downloaded from the MusEdit library, play them as MIDI and print them out (but the demo doesn't allow you to save any changes). You can find these under the Downloads tab.
MusEdit is an inexpensive, yet full-featured music notation editor useful for:
-entering sheet music into your computer so it can be edited, compactly stored, and printed in almost any size exactly the way you want it
-"Play" the music through your computer's sound system so you can check the accuracy of your transcription
- Scrolling music while playing your instrument – no more page turning!
-transmitting and sharing accurate, graphical versions of music with friends and other musicians
-learning and teaching about transposition, alternate guitar tunings, chord variations, and many other aspects of music
-composing
Basically, MusEdit is a "word processor" for music. Everyone knows how indispensable word processors are for text, and now musicians have an affordable editor for their other medium of expression: music.
MusEdit offers an amazing number of features to meet all of your notation needs:
ENTERING MUSIC
- Fourteen Line Types
Seven "Standard" Line Types: Treble, Bass, Keyboard (Treble+Bass pairs), Tablature (guitar and bass), Chord, and Rhythm lines with all the musical symbols needed to reproduce virtually any style of music. And text lines can be entered using any of the fonts available on your system.
Seven "Advanced" Line Types: Alto, Tenor, 8va Treble, 8vb Treble, Drum Kit, "No Clef", and Percussion lines. These line types also accept any kind of musical symbols, and most can be translated to other types of lines.
- Very Flexible Format
Unlike other notation software, MusEdit allows you to mix line types with great flexibility, allowing you to create a score with Text, Tab, Treble, Chords, and any other kinds of lines, in any combination. This makes MusEdit easy to use and ideal for creating scores in precisely the style you prefer, or for preparing lessons, exercises, books, and other special purposes.
- Many Musical Symbols
Over 150 different musical symbols: musical, guitar, drum notation, triplets, alternate endings, crescendo/decrescendo, lines, boxes, etc., 8 Note styles. Use the "Symbols Toolbox" or the "Alternate Symbols Toolbox to insert many different kinds of musical symbols. Most of these symbols (including note values) can also be inserted on Tab lines too. Use the "Extended Objects" toolbar to insert symbols such as triplets, long ties, phrase lines, and text phrases plus other kinds of things.
- Five Ways to Enter Notes and Symbols
Notes and symbols can be positioned and entered with the mouse cursor; or they can be positioned with the keyboard (with arrow keys, for example) and then entered by clicking on a toolbox full of symbols; or they can be both positioned and entered using only the keyboard. They can also be entered by clicking on the virtual fretboard and/or keyboard, or by connecting a Midi keyboard or pickup to your computer and playing your instrument. Using the mouse makes entering music easy and intuitive, but as you gain experience, entering with the keyboard can be much faster and more efficient.
- Fourteen Symbols Toolboxes
Symbols can be selected from two general-purpose toolboxes: the Standard Symbols Toolbox or the Alternate Symbols Toolbox, or more specific toolboxes can be used for entering just a sub-set of the full symbol set.
- Automatic Entry Options
Auto- options can help to speed up music entry by automatically taking care of entering bars, joining notes into quarter note clusters, entering up or down stem notes depending on position on the staff, and wrapping music from line to line when a staff becomes full. When it is necessary to have more control over how music is entered these options can be toggled off at any time, and their default on/off status can be set via Preferences.
- Beaming (Joining) Notes
Tailed notes (8th, 16th, etc) can be joined together while entering the notes, or groups of notes can be selected and joined after they've all been entered, or they can be automatically joined into quarter note clusters (eg. two 8th notes, or four 16th notes) if Auto-Join is on. Beamed tails are automatically corrected as notes are added and removed. Notes can be un-joined just as easily.
- Sophisticated Selection, Cutting, And Pasting
It's easy to make rectangular selections within several lines so you can, for example, select a single measure in a pair of musical staff and tab lines. Multi-line selections can then be pasted into groups of lines in a natural and intuitive way. Also, all lines except treble and bass can be selected, copied, and then pasted into a text document and they will appear in text format with as much information as simple text can convey.
- Insertion Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts make it easy to insert a previous chord, bar, or cluster of beamed notes. This feature makes entering music much more speedy and efficient
- Movable Symbols
The position of all (non-note) symbols can be finely adjusted, both horizontally and vertically so the score looks exactly as you intend. Also, symbols, notes, chords, note clusters and words can be slid horizontally and vertically without moving other score elements. This makes it easy to re-use similar parts of the score which can be copied, pasted, then corrected slightly. Being able to slide words helps in lining lyric words up with correct musical phrasing. Also, pressing Shift+Tab in a lyric line will automatically line words up with notes in a treble line.
- Line Groups
Multi-Instrument scores with up to twenty instruments/voices, automatically translate between line types in grouped lines, label each instrument, bracket instrument group.
- Up/Down Tails on Tab
Tab looks just like standard notation, with up / down stems, multiple voices, joined notes, etc.; or hide note stems completely
- Line-Wrapping
Wrap music to fit staff length after it has been entered
VIEWING THE SCORE
- Hiding lines
Even in a multi-instrument score you can show only the lines or line types you want to see (for example, a guitarist might want to show only the tablature, while a keyboardist might prefer to see only the treble and bass lines). Also, staff and symbols can be displayed in small or large sizes. Any document window can be split into two panes with, for example, a chorus with chord diagrams visible in one pane and lyrics visible in the other.
- View a Magnified Version of the Score
For easier symbol entry and reading during performance.
- Bar numbering
Show or hide bar numbering to see where you are in the score.
- Show Page Breaks and Margins
To see how the score will be printed out on each page.
- Very Accurate Print Preview
For a precise preview of the printed version.
- Label, Indent, and Adjust Space Above and Below Lines
- Ad-Tab fingering symbols
Can be shown in different styles.
CHORDS
- Chord Dictionary
Choose from thousands of chords and chord variations. The chord dialog box shows what each chord looks like on tablature, on the treble staff, and as a guitar chord diagram. Enter the chords on staff and tab lines in a natural way with only two or three keystrokes in most cases. Currently there are at least 39 types of chords for every key (17 counting enharmonics) with an average of 14 variations for every type and key.
- Chord Designer
Use MusEdit's Chord Designer to create your own chord diagrams, including chords for alternate tunings; 2 - 8 string chords; chords diagrams with up to 7 frets; and fingering information.
- Scan for New Chords
You can choose to have MusEdit scan all newly opened documents for new user-designed chords which don't yet exist in your own chord dictionary. MusEdit will present diagrams of all the new chords and then you can click on those which you want to add to your own dictionary. This provides a fast way to build up chord dictionaries -especially in alternate tunings- since you'll be able to download MusEdit documents created by other musicians with a special interest in alternate tunings and unique chords.
- Variable Size Chord Diagrams
The size of chord diagrams in a score can be changed to make them easier to see from a distance, or in dimly lit conditions.
MUSICAL TOOLS - Translation, Transposition, Shifting Fret Position, Scrolling, and more
- Simultaneous Translation and Entry
When treble and tab lines are grouped together an option is available so that entering a note or chord on a staff or tab line will simultaneously enter the appropriate fingering or notes on the complementary tab or staff line. MusEdit will even translate both the treble and bass lines of a keyboard-style pair to a single tab line, so you get both the bass and the treble in the guitar transcription. Music only has to be entered in one style since the other is provided automatically by MusEdit.
- Translating between line types
Instead of using "on the fly" translation as described above, you can translate whole lines from one style to another after they've been entered. Also, it's possible to translate text versions of tablature (downloaded off the net, for example) into MusEdit's graphical format. This includes both text-tab to treble, and text-tab to bass (or any tuning you specify, actually) and text to chord diagrams. Once that translation is done you can then use MusEdit to translate the new tab lines into graphical musical staff...
- Scrolling
The score can scroll automatically (like a teleprompter) for reading while you are playing your instrument. You can adjust the number of lines to scroll and the delay between each scroll. Also, by splitting the window pane in two (using the splitter bar in the scroll bars) you can display a fixed chorus in the top pane while lyrics scroll in the bottom pane.
- Audio Samples
Because MusEdit supports OLE (object linking and embedding) audio samples can be embedded or linked into a document. You can actually have a short sample of the music right next to its notation! Any other OLE object (such as a picture) can also be embedded.
- Alternate Stringed Instrument Tunings
Many different common guitar tunings can be used on a tab line, or you can create your own tuning. When a tab line with a non-standard tuning is translated to musical staff the tuning is taken into account. Alternate tunings include 4, 5, or 6 string bass guitar tunings also! MusEdit can translate between different tunings, even among instruments with different numbers of strings (eg. Guitar to Mandolin).
- Transpose (including by Octave)
Tab, treble, and even chord lines can be easily transposed into different keys. Transposed chord diagrams are chosen to use the most common shapes, rather than simply sliding bar chords up the fretboard. MusEdit also allows transposition by a full octave (either up or down).
- Keyboard to Tab/Treble Translation
MusEdit can translate (merge) Treble+Bass "Keyboard" staff into a single treble or tab staff. All notes from the bass staff are given "down stem" notes and added to the existing treble staff notes (which are given "up stems" as needed), and for those bass notes which are outside of the guitar's range you can select whether MusEdit should ignore them or else raise the notes by an octave or two as necessary so the full bass line can be played within the range of a guitar's tuning (with alternate tunings such as "Drop D" taken into account).
- Shift Fret Position
You can select a portion of a Tab staff which is played in one fret position and shift it to a different fret position. The tones of the notes will be kept the same, but fingering will shift to different strings and fret positions as needed to accommodate the new playing position. You can also easily shift a single tab digit from one string to another while keeping the tone the same (the fingering digit will adjust as needed to maintain the same tone)
- Virtual Fretboard / Keyboard Show Fingering During Midi Playback
GUITAR AND OTHER STRINGED INSTRUMENT
- Any Tab Tuning for 2 - 8 String Treble or Bass Instruments
- Virtual Fretboard
- Chord Diagrams
MusEdit has a very powerful chord designer which enables you to design custom chords in any key, with any name, with up to seven frets, for 4, 5, or 6 string instruments, in any tuning!
- Fretboard Diagrams
- 42 Guitar-specific Musical Symbols
MIDI
- Control Over Playing MIDI
Play the whole score or between "MIDI Marks" (markers for start and end of MIDI play), single step forward or back a note/chord at a time; loop continuously over whole score or between marks; adjust tempo and loudness of playback -and all these settings affect how the score is saved as a MIDI file too (see below).
- Alternate Endings, D.S. al Coda, Repeats
MIDI Play (and saving as MIDI file) will repeat sections between left and right repeat bars, and by using "staff line text" (extended text) you can specify how many times each section should be repeated -including "nested" repeats. MusEdit does not follow more complicated directives such as alternate endings and expressions such as "D.S. al Coda" however.
- Drum Lines
Using MusEdit's "drum line" notation, combined with key codes for 47 different MIDI drum sounds, drum lines can be played as "drum machine" type sounds.
- MIDI Instrument Assignments/Loudness
Any of General MIDI's 127 standard instruments can be assigned to score lines either according to their type (treble, bass, or tab) or according to any user label you assign to any lines. Also, the relative loudness of each line can be assigned.
- Import / Export MIDI Files
Any score which can be played as MIDI can also be saved as a standard .mid (MIDI) file. Such a MIDI file can then be played by or used in multi-media players (i.e. MusEdit is not needed to play these files), posted on web sites, and edited by specialized MIDI programs.
- Live Midi Input
TEXT TO/FROM NOTATION CONVERSION
- Copy notation to clipboard, paste into text files
- Auto-translate text-tab
Any score which can be played as MIDI can also be saved as a standard .mid (MIDI) file. Such a MIDI file can then be played by or used in multi-media players (i.e. MusEdit is not needed to play these files), posted on web sites, and edited by specialized MIDI programs.
- Translate text-tab Tab, ABC-text to Treble, and vice versa
- Translate chord names into diagrams
MusEdit can scan text lines for chord names and create a "chord line" with the appropriate chord diagrams for each chord.
IMPORT/EXPORT
- Text Files - Open Text Files as MusEdit
Text files can be opened either as "text", in which case they behave as they would with Window's "NotePad", or they can be automatically converted to "MusEdit" files, which allows the text to be translated to different music types (eg. text-tab to graphical tab and chord names to chord diagrams) and the font of text lines to be changed as needed.
- ABC Notation
- Graphic Images
For e-mailing or posting on web sites
PRINTING AND PAGE LAYOUT
- Very accurate, sharp printing
Any document can be printed as it appears on the screen (with certain lines hidden for example) but usually with much higher resolution than the screen image. This means, for example, that note ties which may appear jagged on your screen will be very smooth in the printed output. Also, you can print the music in any size ranging from 'wallet size' (as small as your printer can handle, actually) up to 3X normal size.
- Powerful Print preview
MusEdit has a full-featured print preview, showing you exactly how your document will appear on the printed page. The breaks between pages are shown accurately, and you can zoom in, zoom out, and go forward and backward to view every page in your document.
- Margins, Page Numbering, Page Breaks
You have full control over the size of top, bottom, left and right margins, where page breaks should occur (you can insert "hard" (forced) page breaks), and what style of page numbering should be used, where it should be located, and what font to use for page numbering.
- Print Alert
You can be alerted if your document is slightly too wide to fit on a single page width, and then you will be presented with the option to automatically scale the print size to fit onto a page in either "portrait" or "landscape" orientation.
PREFERENCES
- Window Position and Size, Start Folder, Print Options,
- Symbol Entry, Undo, Toolbox, View, Autosave Options
- Default font for Text, Tab, Chord, Triplets, and Staff Text
- Adjustable Tab Staff Spacing, Default Tab Tuning, and other Tab Options
- Translation, Scrolling, Import / Export Options
- Numerous Midi Playback / Midi Input Options
OTHER HANDY FEATURES, AND GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE TOO!
- User-Friendly Interface - with toolbars, floating tool tips, informative status bar, etc.
- Drag and Drop - to open or import files
- Keyboard Shortcuts for almost every action
- Autosave, Undo, Redo, Read Only mode
- Extensive Help file
- 284 Page Printed Manual - A real book, which you can read and consult any time, anywhere!
- Free MusEdit Viewer for anyone who wants to view, play back, and print out your musical scores
- Lifetime Free Upgrades by Electronic Download, or inexpensive update package with CD, manual
- Free Technical Support by E-mail or Toll Free Number
The Ad-Tab Concept
Standard tablature indicates which fret and string should be used to play notes, but it does not provide any information about which finger on the fretting hand should be used to play the notes. Ad-Tab (“Advanced-Tab”) is a system for enhancing standard tablature to show this fingering information in an easy to see manner.
In a score enhanced with Ad-Tab the digits on the tab staff are encircled by colored symbols.
Ad-Tab Symbols are useful for:
- Beginning guitar players who need to be shown which fingers to use on the fretboard
- Advanced players, when complicated or unusual fretboard fingering is used
- Non-Fingering information, such as teaching musical theory by showing scale root notes
MusEdit and Ad-Tab
With MusEdit it's easy to enhance any standard Tab score with Ad-Tab symbols. The tab digits should be entered first (either a few notes at a time, or the whole score), and then the Ad-Tab symbols added afterward. To add an Ad-Tab symbol, place the caret immediately to the left of a Tab digit and then hit one of the “F” keys on the computer keyboard, as shown in the table above. Use the arrow keys to quickly move from one digit to the next. To change an existing fingering symbol to a different one simply hit the “F” key for the new symbol. To clear a fingering symbol hit the F6 key.
Ad-Tab fingering can be hidden, shown as “outline” symbols, shown with symbols in full color, or shown only as color digits via the View | Ad-Tab menu. The full color view is easiest to see and best for learning a new piece. The outline view is good for black and white views of a score enhanced with Ad-Tab symbols. Color digits are useful when a score would be too crowded if symbols were used. If a color view of a score is printed in black and white, the printout will automatically be done in “outline” style.
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