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Hybrid
Includes both a Mac and Windows version of the program.
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Score Writer 4 has leaped past the competition and has VST hosting, and support for most sample libraries.
Features:
- Easy to install and set up
- Create piano, band, orchestral, choral, and lead sheet notation
- Print arrangements of up to 16 instruments
- Comes with fun music and templates to get started
- Notating your music has never been easier
GenieSoft Score Writer is the affordable notation software that makes recording, editing, arranging and printing your music easy, fast and enjoyable. You can quickly enter notes on-screen with your mouse or computer keyboard, or record a MIDI performance. Score Writer’s intuitive interface puts powerful editing tools and symbol palettes at your fingertips, so you spend time composing music instead of searching through menus. For band and small orchestral arrangements, lead sheets, choral parts or even simple notation examples, there’s no easier way to create professional notation than Score Writer.
Quality page layout:
The score window in Score Writer allows you to notate your music quickly and easily. You control all notation elements with the mouse or computer keyboard. Extensive text handling functions make it easy to add or edit lyrics, page text, measure text and rehearsal marks. Move staves on the page with a click of the mouse -- even resize the music on the page.
Powerful MIDI features:
Score Writer has the MIDI recording capabilities you’ve always wanted in a notation program. It reads and writes standard MIDI files, provides tape deck-style transport controls, as well as multiple recording options. Score Writer offers complete MIDI playback of dynamics markings, repeats and endings. You can also edit your recorded MIDI performance on-screen, using the score window.
Extensive Notation Features:
Score Writer has extensive notation symbols including slurs, ties, grace notes, cue notes, tuplets, accents marks, ornaments, ottava, lift, fall off, glissando up/down, and dynamics markings. Notating drum parts has never been easier. You can play your drum sounds on a MIDI instrument and Score Writer will place the notes with percussion noteheads onto a five line percussion staff. It even features an Expression palette so you can enter tempo and other changes easily.
Score Writer Features:
Staff/Score
- Easy setup with Setup dialog
- 256 staves with 8 voices per stave
- 64 staves per system, unlimited number of systems
- 4 voices per stave, each assignable to a MIDI device
- Automatic page tiling for printout
- 32,768 measures per score
- Scrolling score window during playback
- 34" x 44" maximum page size
View/Edit Windows
- WYSISWYG Page layout—what you see and edit is what you get
- Zoom score from 10% - 200%
Staff Types/Clefs
- G (treble clef) G (8va) G (8vb)
- F (bass clef) F (8vb)
- C (movable-tenor, alto, soprano, mezzo soprano clefs)
- Percussion with staff line, notehead and MIDI pitch mapping
Meters/Keys
- Multiple meters
- Different meters between staves are supported graphically
Noteheads
- Supports mst note marks and ornaments
- Intelligent placement of noteheads can be manually adjusted
- Accidentals can be dragged anywhere
- Fingering can be attached to notes
Rhythmic
- 128th note to triple dotted whole notes
- Tuplets from 1 - 99 over 1 - 99
- Automatic beaming
- Adjustable beam height and angles
- Nested repeats and endings with MIDI playback
Input Methods
- Computer mouse
- Computer keyboard
- MIDI controller/keyboard real time and step time
- Import standard MIDI file, quantize each track differently
- Import Encore and MusicTime files.
- Paste any .PICT into score (Mac Only)
Chords
- Automatic chord recognition in step entry (MIDI) mode
- Mouse click and computer keyboard entry of chords
- Chords transpose
Guitar Frames
- Mouse click entry of chords
- Chord can be altered after they are entered
Text
- Lyrics--4 verses for each voice--mass entry, paste from word processor
- Rehearsal marks
- Page text including footer, header, titling with page numbers, date and time
- Measure and system text
Preferences
- MIDI playback: as recorded (MIDI data), as written or in swing
- Templates using PC read only files and Macintosh System 7 stationery
MIDI
- Records all MIDI events, including notes, controllers, aftertouch, pitch bend, key velocity, etc.
- OMS compatible--supports multiport interfaces including MIDI Time Piece, Studio 4 and Studio 5LX
- MIDI playback of all rests, dynamics, trills, repeats, tremolos, hairpins, some articulations
- Assign MIDI values to dynamics (pppp to ffff), hairpins, and some articulations for playback
- Tape deck style MIDI transport controls
- 480 PPN (parts per quarter note) capture of MIDI
Output
- Any compatible printer
- Part extraction with auto transpose and multi-measure rests
- Standard MIDI files
Transposition
- Chromatic
- Diatonic
- Enharmonic
- Includes notes and chord symbols
Editing
- All elements (notes, stems, beams, accidentals, ornaments, fingerings, staves, clefs, barlines, all text including lyrics, chord symbols, dynamic markings) can be clicked and dragged or nudged with arrow keys
- Option drag to copy is supported
- Automatic recognition of elements, edit any item without switching tools
- Copy/paste/merge/paste special for pasting only certain elements
- Hide, show or scale any element 25 - 250%
- Automatic or manual voicing and transcription, including re-transcribe
- Step entry includes notes, rests, rhythmic slashes and chord symbols.
New In Score Writer 4:
VST Integration...
Open the VST Instruments rack and load any VST instrument. You can easily add controller and key switches using the pre-defined libraries for most of the popular sample libraries.
Intuitive Score Editing like No Others...
Score Writer allows you to edit your score in an intuitive manner, unlike other programs, so there is no need to hunt through levels of dialogs or search the manual, just to make a simple change. Most commands can be done with one simple command directly on the score.
Add MIDI Directly on the Score
Now that your VST Instruments have been loaded and your score has been entered, its time to do the final tweaking to get that great sound. Add MIDI data using musical symbols that send MIDI data to the VST Instruments.
Finally create a CD...
Now that you have high quality sound scores, you can save them as a wave file to be burned onto a CD or sent to a friend.
Playback - Unbelievable control
Score Writer 4 has many playback features not found in any other notation program. Articulations, ornaments, expressions, symbols, hairpins, dynamics, etc. can affect MIDI playback. The built in library defines how they affect the MIDI playback and is customizable for each score.
VST Support - Nothing even comes close
Your scores will sound as if they were recorded in the studio. Any VST instrument can be loaded, not just the small light library found in other packages. So you have a great string sample library but need a classical guitar. Score Writer can load all VST instruments and has been tested with over 600 VST instruments, so whatever you have, plug it in Score Writer and listen to your scores in CD quality.
When you're ready, save your score to disk for burning onto a CD.
Score Writer 4 is a VST Host and can load up to 2 VST Instruments. Any track's output can be assigned to any VST instrument loaded into the rack.
The VST Instruments rack has a CPU meter to display the amount of time the CPU is taking to process a buffer of audio data and a Disk meter to display the amount of time Score Writer is using while performing output to the hard disk while recording audio data. Score Writer 's output can be saved to disk as a wave file for burning to a CD.
The rack information is saved with each score and automatically loaded when the score is opened.
Page Layout - Simply beautiful
The Page Dimensions dialog shows the new layout of the score as score staff sizes are reduced. As you change the Score Size the score is automatically reformatted and shown in the score view area. You can view any page in the score to make sure you have the correct size.
Score Editing - Nothing is easier
Score Writer’s intuitive interface puts powerful editing tools and symbol palettes at your fingertips, so you spend time composing music instead of searching through menus. For complete orchestral arrangements, lead sheets, individual cues or even simple notation examples, there’s no faster way to create professional notation than Score Writer. Score Writer's features only add more power, not confusion as in other notation programs.
Score Creation - Easy as can be
Score Writer's setup dialog lets you build your scores in one main dialog. You can choose standard instruments or templates for your tracks, and then set the title page, starting meter, time signature, etc., all within the dialog.
Features:
Playback
- Articulation Playback
Articulations can affect attack times, durations, velocities, and send controller data, key switch data, or even pause the score. Once entered they can be altered to suit your needs and are saved with the score. Articulations, such as Breath mark and Grand Pause, pause score playback.
- VST Host
Score Writer 4 is now a full VST host and can load up 2 VST Instruments. VST Instruments are supported in Windows XP and 2000.
- Glissando Playback
Select a glissando and then choose diatonic, chromatic, or white keys to be used during playback. You can set the line type to solid (none if thickness 0), or wavy and choose to display text.
- Chord and Guitar Frame Playback
Select a chord and then choose the starting offset times, durations and velocities to be used during playback.
Symbol Playback
Any symbol from the graphics palette can affect playback.
Voice Playback
Select any note and set its playback to another voice using parameters in Tracks Window, maintains its original voice.
- Expressions
Expressions now can send tempos throughout a range, bank changes, etc. at any point in the score. You can also tell Score Writer to switch playback voices anywhere in the score. Controller names and key switches are predefine for VST instruments.
- Solo and Mute
Right mouse click to solo or mute the track directly on the score.
- Non-Metered Playback
Score Writer plays all the notes in measure even if it is 4.5 beats, and therefore you can have unlimited number of notes. This is useful for Cadenzas or music without barlines.
- MIDI Clock
Score Writer now sends MIDI Start, MIDI Stop, MIDI Continue, and MIDI clock.
- Measure Repeats
Single and double bar repeats playback.
Score Editing
- Smarter Mouse Entry
Mouse entry automatically recognizes polyphonic rhythms and adjusts stems and voices to accommodate. Rests are automatically entered. The layout adjusts to accommodate notes based on allotment tables. In other words, measures wrap down to the next system to avoid crowded notes. This can be turned off by the user.
- Chord Recognition
Click on a note using chord tool and all notes of the chord (including bass clef on piano tracks) are used to enter the chord found in library.
- Quick Paste (Key stroke to be determined later)
Select a passage and Alt-Shift (Option-Shift on Mac)-click to paste it into the score. Repeat this as many times as necessary.
- Articulations
Choose Notes>Flip>Articulations command to move articulations to the opposite side of stem. Clicking on an articulation in the palette applies it to any selected notes.
- Capo Setting
Guitar Frames can be changed using a capo command. The original chord name can be displayed above the new name or the new chord name can be displayed below the frame with the original above the frame.
- Split System
Splitting a system starts a new system at current measure. Score Writer will try to keep this measure as a start of a new system whenever laying out a page.
- Show/Hide Palettes
One keystroke to show or hide all open palettes.
Score Layout
- Symbol Color
You can now change the color of symbols in the score - notes, lyrics, text, hairpins, dynamics, etc. This is particularly useful for emphasizing important score information especially in educational music. The symbols print in color, too.
- Colors Themes
User can set your own workspace color themes.
Title Items
Title items can be place on every page, not just the first.
- View Options
The View popup menu now has a Fit Page to Screen Width or Height.
Files
- Auto Save
Set the interval to automatically save your score into a backup folder.
- Read MusicXML Files (Just basics at this time)
Open a MusicXML file created from Finale, Sibelius, or scanning programs.
- Record to File
Score Writer 4 allows the output of VST instruments to be saved as a WAVE/AIFF file.
General Improvements
- Backspace Key Deletes
Press the backspace (delete key on MAC) to delete the symbol before cursor.
- Trills
When selected notes are notated as a trill, any ending grace notes are automatically converted to grace notes. Generated trills have a duration for each trilled note and they can be accelerated.
- Guitar Frames
Guitar Frames now have more suffixes, can transpose and have fingering below strings.
- Tablature
The Notes to Tablature command automatically creates a tablature track if needed.
- Graphics Palette
The Graphics palette contains a wedge symbol that is filled or transparent. Adding thickness to curves produces a tapered slur.
- Articulations and Heads Palette
Click on articulation/head tools to apply these to selected notes.
- Dynamics
Dynamics now have a movable baseline on each staff that is used when being entered. Dynamics between keyboard staves can affect both staves.
- Lyrics
Lyrics are typed directly in the score. There are commands to copy to and from the clipboard, and shift the lyric line left or right. Also there is a command to automatically display verse numbers to the left of the first lyric on any system.
- Default Page
New scores now contain more staves shows more of the score on screen. The default staff size is a bit smaller.
- Page Dimensions Dialog
The Page Dimensions dialog was rewritten to show the new layout of the score as score staff sizes are reduced. This is much improved.
- Import Dialog
Importing MIDI files now has options for putting tracks in Score Order. The automatic spacing of staves has been improved.
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PC
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Mac
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Windows 2000/XP
Pentium III/Athlon - Pentium 4 /Athlon 1.8 GHz or better when using VST instruments
128Mb application RAM - 1.5 GB or more recommended when using VST instruments
Windows-compatible Printer
Windows-compatible MIDI interface required for MIDI recording
CD-ROM drive
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Macintosh OS X
Macintosh 68020 or Power Macintosh Native - G4 733MHz or better when using VST instruments
128Mb application RAM - 1.5 GB or more recommended when using VST instruments
Macintosh-compatible Printer
Macintosh-compatible MIDI interface required for MIDI recording
CD-ROM drive
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