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MusicTime Deluxe 4.0.2
MusicTime Deluxe offers you a versatile way to make music with your computer using your sound card or MIDI instrument. more>>
MusicTime Deluxe 4.0.2 offers you a versatile way to make music with your computer using your sound card or MIDI instrument. Whether you are a beginner, hobbyist, or professional, MusicTime Deluxe gives you the power to create and print music with lyrics, text and guitar chords on up to 16 staves. MusicTime Deluxe will allow anyone to write and arrange music for rock bands, piano and vocals, jazz combos, choirs, marching bands and other small ensembles. Discover for yourself how easy and enjoyable making music on your computer can be!
Major Features:
- General Features
- Produce musical scores quickly and easily with MusicTime Deluxe's clear, intuitive user interface
- Notate up to sixteen staves with up to eight instruments per staff
- Prints beautiful sheet music on your printer
- Enter music with your mouse or from your computer keyboard
- Record your performance live using a MIDI keyboard for instant display of notation
- Add guitar chord diagrams and chord names to your scores and lead sheets
- Transpose and hear your music in any key
- Lyric entry formats words with music for up to eight lines
- Cross-staff beaming extends beams across staves
- Automatic import/export of any standard MIDI file or Master Tracks Pro file
- Displays and prints any item(s) in your score
- Editing Features
- Place notes and rests anywhere on scores just by clicking your mouse
- Enter text anywhere on a page in any font, size and style
- Enter song lyrics that line up with the notes quickly and easily
- Change the key, clef and time signature anywhere in your score
- Chord symbols transpose automatically when you transpose your music
- Place notation symbols by selecting from convenient symbol palettes
- Easily change any element: notes, accidentals, markings, lyrics, text, etc.
- Performance Features
- Accurately scores your live playing complete with beaming
- Audition and select different MIDI instruments for each staff
- Set the playback levels of each staff with on-screen volume controls
- View the music as it plays to both see and hear your composition
- Piano keyboard window keys light up in color as music plays
- Printing
- Prints standard MIDI files as finished sheet music
- Print the entire score or individual pages
- Full color printer support for parts or entire score
Enhancements:
- Added a "safe save" feature on Windows, to prevent corruption if crash during saving, etc.
- (which also automatically backs-up the last 20 saved versions in C:UsersAppDataLocalGVOX)
- Added rulers on Mac with new (red) quartz lines on mousefollow.
- Made expressions, graphics, text, dynamics, slurs and symbols assignable to any voice.
- Auto-adjusting of slurs when dragging notes, et al now handles more than one slur at a note.
- Dynamics no...
- New Score Wizard
- Universal Binary and Vista compliant
- Over 25 Templates and unlimited user created templates
- Toolbar
- Help Tooltips for all buttons
- Cleaner onscreen display
- Extract all parts with automatic naming option
- Live dragging of all objects
- Preroll click option
- Transposed or "C" score option
- Beginning measure number offset
- Added menu items
- Auto Spacing when dragging notes, barlines and systems
- Enhanced MIDI playback
- Simplified Accidentals option
- Full DLS and Soundfont support
- More shortcuts
Requirements
- G3 CPU or better
- 32MB of RAM
- 16MB Hard Disk space
- Mac OSX 10.3 or higher.
MusicTime Deluxe will allow anyone to write and arrange music for rock bands, piano and vocals, jazz combos, choirs, marching bands and other small ensembles. Discover for yourself how easyLicense:update/patch
Stomp 1.18
Stomp comes as the latest and comprehensive video recompressor. more>>
Stomp 1.18 comes as the latest and comprehensive video recompressor. YouTube, Google Video, iMovie. The list goes on and Video is a huge part of your online life. Ever tried to email a movie clip to Grandma? What, it's 400mb for a short clip of your cat playing the piano? Well, that's no fun at all (the file size, not the cat). Enter Stomp, where size does matter.
Enhancements:
- Fixed a bug with the About box that would sometimes cause a crash.
- Fixed some more memory leaks.
What, it's 400mb for a short clip of your cat playing the piano? Well, that's no fun at all (the file size, not the cat). Enter Stomp, where size does matter. Major Features: Simple - Stomp is designedLicense:update/patch
What, it's 400mb for a short clip of your cat playing the piano? Well, that's no fun at all (the file size, not the cat). Enter Stomp, where size does matterLicense:update/patch
Rondo 2009r2
Rondo is a really good tool for users who want to learn to play the piano or some other keyboard instrument but you hate reading musical scores, then read on! more>> <<less
NoteAbilityPro 2.373
NoteAbilityPro is known as an effective and convenient notation package for the Openstep and Macintosh OS-X operating systems. more>>
NoteAbilityPro 2.373 is known as an effective and convenient notation package for the Openstep and Macintosh OS-X operating systems. Developed by Dr. Keith Hamel at the University of British Columbia, it is easily the most sophisticated music notation software available on any platform. NoteAbility combines both musical intelligence and graphical flexibility in a direct and intuitive graphical user interface.
Notate anything from simple melodies to complex avant garde orchestral music, play the score on your MIDI synthesizer or directly from your computer sound card and print a publishable copy of your score on your laser printer. If you have been frustrated by the awkwardness and inflexibility of other notation programs then you definitely should have a look at NoteAbility.
Major Features:
- The Standard Features of NoteAbility Pro are:
- Complete set of standard and extended music images (including graphical versions of most images that can be placed anywhere on the page).
- A wide variety of entry methods including mouse, on-screen keyboard, MIDI step time, MIDI real time and QuickScrawl (gesture recognition).
- No limits on score size, image size, number of staves, rhythmic complexity, chord complexity, beaming, tuplet groupings, etc.
- On-screen inspector for modifying the attributes of images and altering the layout of your score.
- Selection options include shift-selection and selection across multiple pages for efficient editing of your score.
- Drag and drop TIFF or PDF graphics from a library of custom images.
- Extensive import and export options.
- Automatic part extraction.
- Playback through MIDI and/or QuickTime.
- Complete on-line help (HTML and PDF).
- Unlimited number of pages per document
- Unlimited page size (width and height)
- User-specified margins
- Up to 40 systems per page
- Up to 40 staves per system
- Up to 16 measures per system (expandable after setup)
- Standard clefs (treble, alto, tenor, bass, soprano, treble-tenor, octave-bass, percussion)
- Variable number of lines in staff (1 - 6)
- Staff type (number of lines) may change at any location
- Staff segments may be hidden at any location
- Standard key signatures
- All time signatures from 1/1 to 32/32 plus complex time signatures (eg. 1/4 + 3/8)
- Standard and custom braces on each system (including nested braces)
- Standard & custom barlines on each system
- Staff labels (right or left justified in any font & font size)
- Automatic addition of pages as needed
- Document display from 25% to 1000%
- Adjustable page size
- System & Page Formatting Specifications
- On-screen adjustment of all beat positions in all systems
- On-screen adjustment of all margins, vertical & horizontal positioning of systems, vertical position of staves, vertical position of lyrics (relative to staff) & horizontal position of the staff labels
- Re-position page numbers (locations, font, etc.)
- Re-position measure numbers (frequency of appearance, location, font, etc.)
- Change number of systems on the page
- Change the number of measures in the system
- Change the number of staves in the system (insertion, deletion, hiding & showing of staves)
- Change the size of any staff
- Change key signature (all staves in the system or single staves)
- Change the time signature (automatic realignment of notes)
- Change the barline type and format
- Change the brace type and format
- Change clef (15 clefs available) at any beat location within the score)
- Add partial measures (e.g. upbeat measures)
- Input Methods
- Mouse input (image drags and note sounds while the mouse is down)
- On-screen piano keyboard
- Step-time entry from MIDI keyboard
- Real-time entry from MIDI keyboard (via MIDI Recorder)
- Quickscrawl entry (gesture recognition)
- Import of MIDI files, or GUIDO files
- Audio Specifications
- Audio MIDI synthesizers and/or Quicktime
- Audio during note entry (all methods)
- Audio during single note adjustment
- Staves may be freely linked to outgoing MIDI channels
- MIDI output can be mapped to 8 different banks (each of 16 channels)
- Programmable MIDI and Quicktime drum kits
- Support for Interapplication MIDI connections
- Tempo map can be specified for the score
- Playback of individual staves
- Playback of selected notes
- Playback map allows repetitions of scores sections
- Transposition of staves on input and playback can be specified
- Music Specifications
- Complete set of standard music symbols (from double whole to = 128th notes and rests)
- Supports all accidentals (including quarter sharps and flats - which can be set to playback through MIDI)
- Simple graphics (rectangles, circles, lines in grayscale, filled or framed)
- Any image can be any size and any colour
- Unlimited number of voices per staff (default set at 3)
- Unlimited number of notes per chord
- Permits extreme rhythmic complexity
- Flexible beaming of notes (e.g. across staves and barlines)
- Correct placement of notes in chord clusters
- Correct placement of accidentals in chords
- Correct vertical alignment of all music images
- Correct beaming of notes (beam angle and vertical position)
- Correct system formatting according to a complex spacing algorithm
- Automatic tieing of notes which exceed the measure duration
- User can adjust the positions of accidentals, noteheads, stems, etc.
- Text Specifications
- Text can appear in any font, size, or colour and can be freely edited, copied and pasted.
- Header Text: is fixed on the page and appears on every page of your score
- Page Text: is fixed on the page
- Measure Text: adjusts to the staff and measure position
- Max Text: for encoding Max messages
- Lyrics: Are aligned to metrical positions and may have dashes and underscores connecting them to other lyrics or notes
- Figured Bass Symbols: Allows standard figured bass symbols and dashes to other figured bass symbols
- Text can be made global so that it is gathered by all parts during part extraction
- Frames can automatically be drawn around text
- Graphics (TIFF or PDF) can be dropped into text boxes
- Individual format rulers are available for each text box
- Unlimited number of verses of lyrics (leading between verses can be specified)
- Provides a user defineable Text Library
- Editing Facilities
- Image selection by graphical area or staff section across multiple systems and/or pages
- Cut and copy of all selected images
- Paste over, merge, and insert options
- Paste to other NoteAbility documents or other applications via pasteboard (as NoteAbility, TIFF, MIDI, Score, EPS/PDF, or GUIDO)
- Can import EPS/PDF, TIFF, MIDI, Score and GUIDO via pasteboard
- Local adjustments to the position of all images
- Adjust secondary positions of images (e.g. length of stem, arc or slur, etc.)
- Change the point size of images (any image can be any size)
- Beam note groups (by beat or by group)
- Automatic insertion of rests
- Transpose notes by interval or key
- Shift images from one voice to another
- Flip stems of notes
- Flip direction of ties
- Add accidentals to notes
- Add and remove ties from notes
- Merge tied notes into a single note of greater duration
- Form and alter the display of tuplets (showing bracket, ratio etc.)
- Merge multiple rests into a single rest
- Add & remove articulation markings from notes
- Modify the duration of notes and rests
- Change notehead type
- Change playback velocity and duration
- Edit tie shape
- Increase the value of notes by eliminating following rests
- Reduce the duration of notes by converting to a note and a rest
- Change beam format (can contradict the rhythm values if desired)
- Change line width and type (20 line types to choose from)
- Part extraction of specified staff into a new editable document
- Undo is available for most editing operations
- MIDI Recording Specifications
- Sixteen (16) channels of MIDI recording
- Built-in metronome (supporting standard meters)
- Adjustable metronome speed
- Reads standard MIDI files
- Reads NeXT .score files
- Quantize at standard rhythmic values
- Re-quantize of recorded or imported data
- Insert into score at any location on any staves or voices
- Control Panel Specifications
- Displays the current command
- Allows selection of current tool (and corresponding cursor)
- Allows Entry Cursor to be moved by measure or beat
- Allows movement through pages
- Specifies tuplets (triplet, quintuplet or user defined)
- Indicates current measure, beat position, staff number and voice number
- Indicates starting position of playback and current tempo
- Indicates last undoable operation
- File Specifications
- Unlimited number of open documents
- On-screen toolbar allows access to most panels and many editing operations
- Standard Open, Save, and Save As menu commands
- Imports .MIDI, .MID and .score files (through MIDI Recorder)
- Imports GUIDO files which can be pasted directly into an open document.
- Exports .MIDI, .score, NoteWriter (Macintosh), Max qlist, Max explode, EPS/PDF, JPG, GIF, PICT, and GUIDO formats
- Loads and saves score templates
- Loads and saves text libraries
- Printing Specifications
- Uses a customized Page Setup panel which allows you to set reduction size, margins, paper orientation, and print location on paper.
- Prints to all compatible Mac OS-X printers.
- Saves documents in PDF or EPS format.
Requirements:
- Any Macintosh computer capable of running the OS-X operating system. This includes all Macs with a G3, G4, or better processor.
- Macintosh OS-X (version 10.2.0 or higher) installed on your hard drive or on a hard drive partition.
- at least 128 MBytes of RAM
- at least 100 Mbytes of free disk space.
- any Mac OS-X compatible printer (using USB, Appletalk or on a network)
- any Mac OS-X compatible USB Midi interface (optional)
Band-in-a-Box 15.0.6
Band-in-a-Box is a product considered an automatic accompaniment program for Macintosh. more>>
Band-in-a-Box 15.0.6 is a product considered an automatic accompaniment program for Macintosh. You type in the chord symbols to any song, using standard chord symbols like C, Fm7, Cm7b5 etc. choose a style and press PLAY. Band-in-a-Box then generates a pro quality 5 instrument accompaniment of bass, drums, piano, guitar and strings in over 100 styles of music.
Band-in-a-Box then generates a pro quality 5 instrument accompaniment of bass, drums, piano, guitar and strings in over 100 styles of music. Enhancements: - This patch is a general maintenance
Apple GarageBand Update 5.1
Apple GarageBand Update is a helpful program helping you to learn to play piano and guitar more>> <<less
Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard 0.2.6
Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a brilliant MIDI events generator and receiver more>>
Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard 0.2.6 is a brilliant MIDI events generator and receiver. It doesn't produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal or external). You can use the computer's keyboard to play MIDI notes, and also the mouse. You can use the Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played MIDI notes from another instrument or MIDI file player. To do so, connect the other MIDI port to the input port of VMPK.
Major Features:
- VMPK uses a modern GUI framework: Qt4, that gives excellent features and performance. RtMIDI provides MIDI input/output features.
- The alphanumeric keyboard mapping can be configured from inside the program using the GUI interface, and the settings are stored in XML files. Some maps for Spanish, German and French keyboard layouts are provided, translated from the ones provided by VKeybd.
- VMPK can send program changes and controllers to a MIDI synth. The definitions for different standards and devices can be provided as .INS files, the same format used by QTractor and TSE3. It was developed by Cakewalk and used also in Sonar.
- VMPK can help you to change sounds in your MIDI synthesizer, but only if you provide a definition for the synthesizer sounds first. The definitions are text files with the .INS extension, and the same format used by Qtractor (Linux), and Sonar (Windows).
- When you start VMPK the first time, you should open the Preferences dialog and choose a definition file, and then select the instrument name among those provided by the definitions file. There should be one instrument definitions file installed in the VMPK's data directory (typically "/usr/share/vmpk" in Linux, and "C:Program FilesVMPK" in Windows) named "gmgsxg.ins", containing definitions for the General MIDI, Roland GS and Yamaha XG standards. It is a very simple format, and you can use any text editor to look, change, and create a new one. You can find a library of instruments definitions at the cakewalk ftp server.
- Another customization that you may want to tweak is the keyboard mapping. The default layout maps about two and half octaves for the QWERTY alphanumeric keyboard, but there are some more definitions in the data directory, adapted for other international layouts. You can even define your own mapping using a dialog box available in the Edit->Keyboard map menu.
- There are also options to load and save the maps as XML files. The last loaded map will be remembered the next time you start VMPK. In fact, all your preferences, selected MIDI bank and program, and the controller values will be saved on exit, and restored when you restart VMPK the next time.
Requirements:
- Qt 4.4 or newer
- ALSA sequencer in Linux, WinMM in Windows and CoreMIDI in Mac OSX
- ALSA sequencer in Linux, WinMM in Windows and CoreMIDI in Mac OSX
- GCC C++ compiler.
A free, cross-platform and open source virtual MIDI piano keyboard. Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard 0.2.5 - Pedro Lopez-CabanillasLicense:GPL
PySynth 0.8
A simple and open source music synthesizer developer in Python more>> A simple and open source music synthesizer developer in Python
PySynth is a free and simple music synthesizer written in Python. PySynths based on a script found on the Web and then modified for this purposes.
The sound does not try to emulate a specific instrument, its more like a mixture of piano, electric piano, organ (in the bass), and vibraphone.
The current release of the synthesizer can only play one note at a time. However, two output files can be mixed together.
The script can also be used as a module by other Python programs.
System requirements:
- Python
prodatum Alpha 39
Free cross-platform preset/patch/SysEx editor for the E-MU Proteus 2000 synthesizer family more>> Free cross-platform preset/patch/SysEx editor for the E-MU Proteus 2000 synthesizer family
prodatum is a simple yet powerful free cross-platform preset editor, aka SysEx-editor, for the E-MU Proteus 2000 synthesizer family.
Written in C++, using portmidi for MIDI communications and FLTK for its user-interface, prodatum is available for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.
prodatum features some "hand-made" and optimized widgets like a Virtual Keyboard with range-sliders, an Envelope Editor with drag-zoom and a Master Monitor with control guarantee.
Supported sound modules:
- Vintage Pro
- Audity 2000
- Proteus 2000
- Proteus 1000
- B-3
- XL-1
- Virtuoso 2000
- MoPhatt
- B-3 Turbo
- XL-1 Turbo
- MoPhatt Turbo
- Planet Earth
- Planet Earth Turbo
- Proteus 2500
- Orbit 3 - Keyboards: Vintage Keys, PK-6, XK-6, MK-6
- Ensoniq Halo - Command Stations: PX-7, XL-7, MP-7
Main features:
- Intuitive editing by putting parameters into context where possible. For example: to set the transpose value for a layer you just middle-click the key on the virtual keyboard that should play middle-C.
- Quick-edit: You turn a knob and thats it; there is no explicit saving needed and you can switch presets back and forth without losing any data ever.
- Undo and Redo
- Preset parameter cache: Makes preset-switching a breeze once data has been cached.
- Utilities: Copy presets around randomize presets or manage (load/save/rename) your multisetups.
Enhancements
- improved piano drawing and master monitor drawing (implicit outlines, to save some CPU cycles)
- added an about tab
- always close portmidi on exit. this hopefully fixes prodatum hanging on exit as some experienced
- bug: when you selected a different instrument for layer X, then switched to layer Y, then pressed "Undo" for layer X, the layer button didnt update the instrument name. fixed
- code cleanups
Calcium Supplements 1.0
Free Dashboard health widget for your Mac more>> All in one: SAMPLIT is the ultimate solution for sampling your midi and real instruments. Everything is here: automated recording, naming, truncating, compression, normalization, looping, resampling and even playing. Samplit sends the midi notes to the midi hardware, records all the individual sounds and create ready-to-play Sampler instruments with a few mouse clicks.
Formats: SAMPLIT currently supports 9 sampler formats:
Halion (Steinberg)
EXS24 (Apple)
Kontakt (Native Instruments)
Sampletank (IK Multimedia)
Reason (Propellerheads)
VSampler (MAZ Sound Tools)
Soundfont (EMU)
Gigasampler (Tascam)
Structure (Digidesign)
Quality: SAMPLIT uses the ASIO driver on PC and the CoreAudio driver on MAC.
Supported sampling rates: 44.1, 48, 96 kHz (depending on your audio card)
Supported bit resolutions: 16, 24, 32 bits (depending on your audio card)
You can always convert to a lower sample rate and bit resolution. For example you can record a piano in 96/24 and create a nice 96/24 piano in Kontakt format and a lighter 44/16 piano in soundfont format. All the operations on samples are non destructives.
Interface: The main window gives you a clear view of your current project. Anything that you do has an immediate visual impact. You can add or remove a velocity, select or deselect a note, listen to any sample, erase a sample that you dont like...
Recording: With SAMPLIT, you are in control. The recording window allows you adjust all the recording parameters in real time: thresholds, pre-recording, post-recording, recording limit, recording pause... You can also decide if you want to record by velocity or by note.
Midi: Every program inside a project records the bank change program change and control change. When you select that program, all these midi parameters are sent back to your midi synth like a total recall. But you dont need a midi interface to use SAMPLIT, you can also record any kind of non-midified sounds.<<less
QuickYellow 1.0
Free Dashboard widget for your Mac more>> Tunefinder X is a Melody Index. It will show you the name of the composer and composition for any of over 13,000 melodies from classical and popular music when all you know is the melody itself.
Just click-play the melodys first ten notes on an on-screen piano keyboard diagram. You will hear each note as you play it.
The database includes themes and melodies from scores of composers, including Arlen, Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Bizet, Brahms, Bruckner, Chopin, Corelli, Debussy, Donizetti, Dvorak, Elgar, Gershwin, Gluck, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Joplin, Liszt, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Milhaud, Mozart, Offenbach, Prokofiev, Puccini, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Rodgers, Rossini, Saint-Saens, Scarlatti, Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius, Smetana, Sousa, Strauss, Strauss, Sullivan, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Vivaldi, Wagner, and Weber.<<less
Piano notes music game 09
After a lot of research, I realized that the software I was looking for just didnt exist, so I decided to create it myself. Five months later... Pian... more>> <<less
Rainbow piano for kids 12.18
Rinbow piano for kids. Look at the pannel and press the same note. Look at the pannel and press the same note. Look at the pannel and press the same n... more>> <<less
BeautynHealth Widget 1.0
Allows you to easily search for products on BeautynHealth.com right from your dashboard. more>> Pianos is the third plug-in in our series of hybrid synthesizers which use a set of waveforms/samples as the main oscillator source combined with a powerful synthesizer- and effect section which processes these waveforms. Are you one of those who own a number of VST plugins or Audio Units, but youre not satisfied with the piano sounds in these. Theyre either boring or the piano sounds dont stand out. Youre looking for something more exciting but still piano sounds, then let us recommend Pianos, one of our ambient (piano) plugins.
The plug-in features hundreds of piano recordings and layers which are combined to create a collection of pianos sounds which were very satisfied with. Many of the presets follow our tradition of sounding "ambient", but this plug-in offers a variety of piano sounds. There are traditional acoustic pianos, grand pianos, electric pianos and synth pianos of many kinds.<<less
LilyPond 2.11.61-1 Beta / 2.10.33-1
An automated engraving system that beautifully formats music. more>> An automated engraving system that beautifully formats music.
LilyPond is an automated engraving system. It formats music beautifully and automatically.
It has a friendly syntax for its input files.
Main features:>
- Music language input.
- The input is done in the form of a textual music language.
- Entry may be done with the text editor of your choice, and using the national language of your choice.
- The ASCII input language can integrate with TeX, HTML and Texinfo, thus allowing musicological treatises to be written from a single source.
- The music and its layout are strictly separated, so score and parts (possibly in different styles and keys) and scores can be generated from the same source, and changes always take effect in both places.
- The output can be improved by upgrading the program.
- Pieces can be printed in different (typographical) house styles, or according to different notational conventions.
- Automated high-quality formatting.
- Automatic spacing, line breaking and page breaking.
- Handling of polyphonic collisions for notes, dots, and rests.
- Automatic placement of accidentals, beams, slurs.
- Users dont need typographical expertise to produce good notation.
- No user interaction necessary during running, Running the program can be automated, which is convenient for mass converting databases of digitized music, and printing algorithmic compositions.
- The Feta font has been tailored especially for LilyPond, and was designed carefully mimicking the finest hand-engraved scores. It is available as a scalable font, but also as a Metafont.
- Support for many notation constructs.
- Special notation
- Chord names.
- Drum notation.
- Figured bass.
- Grace notes.
- Fret diagrams.
- Basic tablature notation.
- Cluster notation and rhythmic grouping signs.
- Tremolos, both for single notes and chords.
- Tuplets in arbitrary ratios.
- Polymetric notation.
- Mensural notation.
- Automatic cue-notes,.
- Automatic part combining for orchestral scores.
- Quarter tone accidentals.
- Ambituses.
- Metronome markings.
- Harmonics.
- Measure repeats (percent style).
- EasyNotation note heads.
- Blanking arbitrary notation elements.
- Arpeggio signs.
- Ottava brackets.
- Nested analysis brackets.
- Piano pedals.
- Starting and stopping staves anywhere
- System separators
- Robust design
- Lyrics in any language.
- Output in PostScript, PDF, PNG, MIDI, SVG.
- No limits on the number of staves, voices, measures, lengths of texts, etc.
- Extensible with built-in LISP interpreter.
- Excellent support
- Runs on Unix, including MacOS X and Linux, and Windows.
- Active user community.
- Extensive documentation.
- Supported by many other programs,
- RoseGarden NoteEdit and PowerTab and Denemo.
- Imports ABC, ETF and MIDI.
Enhancements:
- setEasyHeads has been renamed to easyHeadsOn, and a new command easyHeadsOff reverts note heads to normal heads.
- fatText and emptyText have been renamed to extLengthOn and extLengthOff, respectively.
- Underlining is now possible with the underline markup command.
- It is now possible to specify, using the page-count variable in the paper block, the number of pages that will be used.
- A new page breaking function, ly:minimal-breaking, is dedicated to books with many pages or a lot of texts.
- A table of contents is included using markuplines able-of-contents. Elements are added to it using the ocItem command.
- Text spreading over several pages is entered using the markuplines keyword. Builtin markup list commands, such as justified-lines or wordwrap-lines may be used, and new ones created using the define-markup-list-command Scheme macro.
- Particular points of a book may be marked with the label command. Then, the page where these points are placed can be refered to using the page-ref markup command.
- Page breaking and page turning commands (pageBreak,
- oPageBreak, etc) can be used at top-level, between scores and top-level markups.
- The following options are now changed as a -d sub-option: --backend, --safe, --preview and --no-pages (which became -dno-print-pages). The -b option does not exist any more.
- Improved testing procedure now catch changes in CPU and memory performance, page layout, MIDI results and warnings. This helps to reduce the number of regression errors during development, resulting in more stable releases.
