Denemo
Denemo is a free music notation program for GNU/Linux, Mac OSX and Windows that lets you rapidly enter notation which it typesets using the LilyPond music engraver. Music can be typed in at the PC-Keyboard, or played in via MIDI controller, or input acoustically into a microphone plugged into your computer’s soundcard. Denemo uses LilyPond which generates beautiful sheet music to the highest publishing standards. During input Denemo displays the staffs in a simple fashion, so you can enter and edit the music efficiently. The typesetting is done in the background while you work, and is generally flawless publication quality. Some final tweaks can be done on the typeset score with the mouse if needed. This represents an enormous practical improvement over the popular programs which require you to re-position colliding notation constantly as you enter the music. See comparison with Musescore, Finale or Sibelius.
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QuickScore Elite
QuickScore Elite is comprehensive, integrated software for music composition, incorporating notation, arranging, MIDI and audio sequencing and recording. Create publication-quality scores, musical content for the desktop and world wide web, audio CDs, MP3s and soundtracks for film, video and games. QuickScore Elite Level II is Sion Software's premier software for composing music, an elegant, integrated scoring, audio and sequencing program that Electronic Magazine awarded their 1998 Editors' Choice for notation software upon its debut and has won the Top Ten Reviews Gold Award for five years running. Start faster right off the top with one of QuickScore's score templates. You've got Piano, Piano and Solo Instrument, Organ, Choir, Band, Orchestra and a bunch more. And if you need something you don't see, just set it up yourself and it's there for you to use from then on. Play high quality instrument sounds with the included FluidGM soundfont player.
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FORTE 12
With FORTE 12 music notation software, you can write sheet music using your computer in minutes, have it played back by over 100 preloaded instruments at the click of a button. Check out the video for more information and download your free trial of FORTE Premium today! Write and edit music notation in a clear, simple-to-use format (with the option of printing physical copies immediately). FORTE 12 is a unique and easy-to-use notation software program for composing, arranging, editing and transposing scores whatever your requirements or experience. Scan physical sheet music into FORTE 12 using a scanner, your phone or import picture files for further editing, transposing and saving as MusicXML or MIDI. Using new algorithms this software offers superior scanning with high accuracy and quick editing tools.
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Crescendo Music Notation
A simple and intuitive way to write musical notation or guitar tabs, Crescendo allows composers to write, save and print their music compositions on their computer. The wide array of sheet music symbols, time and key signatures, along with a free-form layout, gives a composer optimum control over creating sheet music for their arrangements. Add whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth and thirty-second notes and rests (semibreve to demisemiquaver). Use drum kits and templates to write percussion notation. Create dotted notes, chords, add repeats, and more. Insert text to specify a title, tempo, dynamics or lyrics. Copy, cut and paste measures to easily insert themes. Brace staves together to compose scores for ensembles. Supports VSTi instruments, such as piano or violin, for quality MIDI playback.
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