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Finale PrintMusic! Music Notation Software - Win/Mac | 
| From: CODA
Category: Software
Buy New: £64.95
Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 2755
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Mac Os 9 And Below, Windows 95
Media: CD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 7.6 x 2
Model: codpm212
UPC: 606776000420
EAN: 0606776000420
ASIN: B000051XP5
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Producing sheet music is time-intensive and error prone. IPrintMusic/I makes it fast and straightforward using a mouse, keyboard and even a MIDI instrument connected to your computer. The installation CD is Windows and Mac-compatible with a manual covering both.p The setup wizard enables you to define a name, paper size and orientation, choose instruments types--woodwind, brass and so on--and add instruments. IPrintMusic /Ithen creates the sheet using the supplied editable templates. You can alter the key and the measure as well as add, alter or remove notes, rests, tuplets, beams, a variety of articulations and other musical annotation. PrintMusic dynamically lays it out to professional publisher standard. p Inner voices support--like layers in a graphics package--is impressive. You can add up to four voices each of which can have up to 12 notes per chord for 48 notes per staff on any beat. Use the PlayBack controls to hear your composition at any time, including articulations. If you're using inner voices you can play them in any combination.p Because computer keyboards don't make a good fit with music the keys have special editing functions which take time to learn. Fortunately you're aided by seven excellent tutorials taking you from initial installation to the professional music notation features. Along the way you'll learn various speed entry techniques. For example, IPrintMusic/I can even import a standard MIDI file and export to sequencing programs. The final result is a fast and flexible system for creating and editing professional quality sheet music--a must for any composer. --ISteve Patient/I
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 PrintMusic - Value for Money! April 21, 2004
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
I bought PrintMusic based on the 5/5 review in Computer Active. I play the clarinet (a little) and my daughter is studying her Music GCSE. This package is an absolute gem. It's easy to use and produces very attractive sheet music very quickly.pMy daughter plays piano so she can enter music quickly using her keyboard. Of course, you can't play legato and you have to play in time with the metronome, but what do you expect? It's a computer programme not a mind-reader! The notation is really accurate and you can tell the software the smallest note to allow, so if you just want crotchets you can get just crotchets.pI don't really play keyboards so I have to use the slower mouse click and computer keyboard commands. Most of the keyboard shortcuts are similar to those I use in Word or Outlook so they aren't hard to learn. Clicking notes onto the staff is as easy as choosing a note length (crotchet, quaver etc.) and clicking it in the right place. PrintMusic is very good at not letting you make mistakes - you can't put 5 beats into a bar of 4/4 for example.pThe printed results are beautiful. Just like the sheet music that you buy in the shop. If I want it to look really posh I use 'parchment' inkjet paper which is fantastic.pThe only way you could find fault with this package is if you expect it to do things that it isn't designed to do. No, it won't guess the notes you really wanted to play. It has not yet emptied the cat litter tray or gone to Sainsbury's for me either, but there we go. I'm sure more expensive packages do more musical cartwheels but PrintMusic suits us down to the ground. It means that, even with our limited skills, experience and budget, we can produce our own sheetmusic that looks as good as anything you'd buy in a shop.pAs a musician and parent I'm thrilled with this. It deserves 5 stars and more. It's a brilliant piece of software for the money. As a cat owner and shopper however . . . !
A Touch Of Music November 14, 2003
Bill Ingham (Cleethorpes Lincolnshire England)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
A touch of music is in my view a perfect title for this musical tool which at the touch of a keyboard or mouse opens up the world of music to people like me, who until now were unable to read or write music with any degree of accuracy.brSince obtaining Printmusic earlier this year after joining a male voice choir, I have (with the aid of print music) managed to learn with some confidence, the words and music to something like sixty different pieces of music simply by building up the pieces note by note. This is a painstaking way of achieving complete pieces of music but very rewarding, particularly when your skill with the programme develops and you are able to use the mass mover tool to speed up the entry of repeated sections of music, to hear beutiful harmonies develop under your finger tips gives a pleasure which is difficult to explain. The one thing that I think is required to improve this Musical Miracle, is a simple and easy way to scan sheet music, this is the only area where I have been unsuccseful.
Fantastic May 27, 2003
AlienCrashTestDummy (Stanwell, Middlesex United Kingdom)
13 out of 17 found this review helpful
I bought this on a limb#8230; I did not really have the money but I thought it could help, and it did that, and more. I am a young composer and this one product has taught me more than another four or five other products put together would. I use it as an idea gatherer, but it can be used for so so much more. I am pleased I spent the money on it; I probably have not made a wiser purchase since.
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