Score Writer 4.1.0 P19

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. 

1. Staff/Score
   • Easy setup with Setup dialog
   • 256 staves with 4 voices per stave
   • 16 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
2. View/Edit Windows
   • WYSISWYG Page layout—what you see and edit is what you get
   • Zoom score from 10% - 200%
3. 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
4. Meters/Keys
   • Multiple meters
   • Different meters between staves are supported graphically
5. Noteheads
   • Supports most note marks and ornaments
   • Intelligent placement of note heads can be manually adjusted
   • Accidentals can be dragged anywhere
   • Fingering can be attached to notes
6. 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
7. 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
   • Import MusicXML files
8. Chords
   • Automatic chord recognition in step entry (MIDI) mode
   • Mouse click and computer keyboard entry of chords
   • Chords transpose
9. Guitar Frames
   • Mouse click entry of chords
   • Chord can be altered after they are entered
10. 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
11. Preferences
    • MIDI playback: as recorded (MIDI data), as written or in swing
    • Color settings
    • MIDI playback: as recorded (MIDI data), as written or in swing
12. MIDI
    • Records all MIDI events, including notes, controllers, aftertouch, pitch bend, key velocity, etc.
    • 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
13. VST Hosting
    • Host any VST instrument
    • Save playback to wave file
    • Instrument definitions for most sample libraries playback to wave file
14. Output
    • Any compatible printer
    • Part extraction with auto transpose and multi-measure rests
    • Standard MIDI files
15. Transposition
    • Chromatic
    • Diatonic
    • Enharmonic
    • Includes notes and chord symbols
16. 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.

• Macintosh 68020 or Power Macintosh Native
• 256Mb application RAM
• Macintosh-compatible Printer
• Macintosh-compatible MIDI interface required for MIDI recording
• CD-ROM  drive