| Purpose
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Notation Musician |
Notation Composer |
| Download MIDI
files from the Internet and transcribe them to sheet music that you can print or view on
the screen as the notes play. |
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| Search the Internet for MIDI files,
download, and unzip them using a built-in Internet browser. |
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| Transcribe 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 be made in
the transcription of the note rhythms. |
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| Automatically analyze and display chord
names. |
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| Enjoy and study the music
notation a song as it plays. |
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| Highlight the notes and lyrics as they
play. |
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| Slow down the tempo so that you can hear
the rhythms more clearly. |
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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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| Practice music as you sing along
or play your instrument with accompaniment |
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| Transpose the pitch of a vocal part to
match your voice range. |
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| Automatically turn pages. |
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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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| Quickly prepare parts from a
MIDI file, for use by yourself or musicians in a performing group. |
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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 from the screen 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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| Annotate the sheet music that
has been transcribed from a MIDI file. |
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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.", for which you can specify the destination measure. |
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| Format and print the score and
parts. |
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| Choose the default font size, face, and
style for various categories of music symbols and types of text. The default can be
overridden for specific items. |
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| Specify the default horizontal spacing
(degree of stretch or compression) and default vertical spacing between staves. |
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Control the layout of each
page:
- page breaks, system (line) breaks
- number of measures on any given system
- number of systems on any given page
- vertical spacing between any pair of staves
- vertical spacing between adjacent systems
- relative horizontal spacing of individual measures within
a system (line).
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| Add and control the placement of page
title, footer and header text. |
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| Optionally hide empty staves. |
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| Expand or collapse multiple-measure
rests. |
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| Format parts using templates. |
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| Display one-line drum instrument staves
using special percussion noteheads. |
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| Re-arrange the notes of an
existing song, or create music from scratch. |
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| Create a new song using a pre-defined
template for a variety of solo instruments, duet pairs, small ensembles, and large
ensembles. Or, use a custom song template that you have previously prepared. |
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Add notes by whatever
method is most convenient for you:
- with the mouse and computer keyboard.
- using the Sequential Note Entry method, whereby where you
rarely have to select the note duration, even when the sequence of notes has different
note duration.
- using Step-Time recording, one note or chord at a time,
from your MIDI keyboard or input device.
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| Change pitches of notes. |
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| Add staves (instrument parts). |
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| Add measures. |
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Add ornaments:
- graces notes
- trills
- turns
- mordents
- arpeggios
- tremolos
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| Change the meter and barline positions. |
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| Transfer your score to other popular
music notation programs, such as Finale™ and Sibelius™, using the Music
XML file format. |
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| Record music from your MIDI
keyboard or input device. |
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| The recording of your performance is
transcribed using the same excellent MIDI-to-notation transcription technology that
Notation 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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| Edit the
performance (MIDI) of the song. |
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| Notation Composer offers the features of
a typical MIDI sequencer program but in a more musically oriented way. Editing of the
music performance is highly integrated with 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,
as that you can 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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Midi-Connections Score
Notation Musician
Vivaldi Plus
Vivaldi Gold
Vivaldi Scan
Notation
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MusicTime Deluxe
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Sibelius
PhotoScore Ultimate
Guitar Pro 5
Magic Score
Capella 2008
Capella Scan
Cubase
Studio 5
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