Notation & Composition

Sibelius 5 Educational Edition

Sibelius 5 music notation software helps teachers with preparing teaching materials and arrangements. It lets students hear how their work sounds, makes it easy to find and correct mistakes, and is much more fun to use than pen and paper! Sibelius 5 is suitable for all educational levels-it?s easy for beginners, yet sophisticated enough for all university requirements. At university level, Sibelius 5 software satisfies the most advanced requirements, from avant-garde and early music notation to Schenkerian analysis. If you?re an instrumental teacher, Sibelius makes it quick to create exercises, scan in, transpose pieces, and produce accompaniments and arrangements-you?ll never need to write out parts again.

Sibelius 5 Professional Edition

Sibelius 5 is the essential software for writing, playing, printing, and publishing music notation. It will keep you inspired and help you take your ideas even further. Whatever your musical style, Sibelius 5 music notation software makes writing scores a breeze-giving you more time to focus on the music. Stunning features like Panorama mean you don't need to think about pages while you're composing or arranging. You can just let your creativity flow. Ideas Hub is a real first for music software. It lets you instantly capture your musical ideas, and then find them again in a second-so you'll never lose another idea. Plus new, high-quality, built-in sounds play back your scores with astounding realism, because there's no better way to perfect your music than by hearing it. You can create audio files which can be converted to MP3s or burned to CD, produce instrumental parts effortlessly, compose for video, sell your music online and do hundreds of other things you might never have dreamed of.

Band in a Box 2007

Band-in-a-Box is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program, which means that you can go from nothing to complete song arrangements in as little as a few seconds. Simply enter chords to a song, choose a style of music, and Band-in-a-Box does the rest, generating a full band arrangement complete with Bass, Piano, Drums, Guitar, Strings, and more. You can arrange, listen to, or play along with songs in hundreds of musical styles. The MIDI and audio tracks that Band-in-a-Box creates are automatically played out through your computer's built-in sound card or synthesizer, and the music notation is displayed in a lead sheet window.
Tempo is set based on Style when choosing File | New. Instead of always resetting to tempo=140, the tempo is now the best tempo for the current Style Improved Enharmonics

Sibelius First - Music Notation Software

It's time to share the song in your head with the rest of the world. Sibelius First unleashes the songwriter in you - simply and easily. If you're more comfortable with a guitar or keyboard than the intricacies of musical notation, Sibelius First is for you. It's the easy way to create scores that you can print, share, post online, or even sell. Sibelius First features "can't mess up" templates and plug-ins to help you create lead sheets, guitar tab and complete scores. Simply play your MIDI keyboard or MIDI guitar (or use your PC or Mac) and First turns your music into notes and chord symbols. Just add lyrics - and your name. The world is waiting. Easily Create Original Songs: Friendly user interface; Includes composing & arranging tools for up to 12 staves of music; Scan in sheet music or open PDF files easily! Arrange for Different Instruments: Create instrumental parts that automatically sync up with your score; Switch from guitar tab to notation and back again with ease; Change the key of your score with one click! Realistic Playback: Hear what your score will sound like with playback using 128 sampled instruments! Publish. Export. Share - Print professional-quality full scores or individual parts at the touch of a button; Export an audio file of your score to burn a CD; FREE Sibelius Scorch technology lets you post and share scores on the web for others to see and hear your music! Sibelius First is for singers, songwriters, guitar players, keyboard players, and music hobbyists of all kinds!

Garritan Personal Orchestra ( 3rd Edition ) - Windows / Mac DVD

This library includes all the instruments of a symphony orchestra - strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion - plus a Steinway concert grand piano, Stradivarius, Guarneri and Gagliano solo violins, Wurlitzer and Venus concert harps, Haynes flutes, Heckel bassoons, a Mustel celesta, a von Beckerath concert pipe organ, a harpsichord, and many more fine instruments. It even includes multiple solo instruments. Everything one needs to create orchestrations of any size! Build ensembles, one instrument at a time, from individual solo instruments. This simple and flexible approach represents a paradigm shift in MIDI orchestration. No need to use predetermined section sizes. Personal Orchestra lets you construct ensembles and sections of different sizes from specially-designed instruments. Build wind, brass and string ensembles of any size and variety - solos, duos, quartets, majestic sectional unisons, intimate divisi parts, or larger ensembles and sections as you see fit. The Garritan Studio host application that works with notation programs is available for download.

Finale 2009 - Academic

Since its introduction in 1988, Finale has remained the pacesetter and first choice for those who strive for perfection in their music notation. Now celebrating 20 years of innovation, Finale continues to lead the way, helping you reach that perfection faster - saving you keystrokes, decisions, and time. TempoTap - conduct your own tempo changes Record or import an audio track for unprecedented realism More than 300 world-class Garritan instrument sounds, plus a full General MIDI set and much more More than 100 sounds from the acclaimed Tapspace Virtual Drumline Human Playback makes your music sound like live musicians are playing it Save Audio Files (including. MP3) to create CDs or to save to an iPod Colored Noteheads and integrated samples of Boomwhackers Create SmartMusic accompaniments Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing - automatically generates up to 6-voice harmonies for your melodies Exercise Wizard - instantly generates up to 50,000 practice pieces for your band, orchestra, or choir without entering a single note Studio View - an all-in-one environment for multi-track music creation Free, downloadable Finale NotePad lets you share your Finale files with anyone who can then print, play, edit, and save MicNotator lets you enter notes by playing your brass or woodwind instrument System Requirements - Windows XP, Vista 32-bit, G4 or higher recommended, OS 10.4 or 10.5 (Mac-Intel or Power PC), DVD-ROM drive, 800x600 resolution, 512MB RAM, and 400MB free space

Finale 2009

Since its introduction in 1988 Finale has remained the pacesetter and first choice for those who strive for perfection in their music notation. Now celebrating 20 years of innovation Finale continues to lead the way helping you reach that perfection faster saving you keystrokes decisions and time.System Requirements:Finale 2009 for Windows® Windows XP/Vista 32-bit. DVD-ROM drive. 800x600 minimum monitor resolution. Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB or more recommended for optional use of Garritan sounds/Aria Player: more RAM = more available sounds). 400MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional 2GB hard drive space is required for all VST/AU sounds included with Finale 2009. Finale 2009 for Macintosh® G4 or higher recommended. OS 10.4 or 10.5 (Mac-Intel or Power PC).* DVD-ROM drive. 800x600 minimum monitor resolution. Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB or more recommended for optional use of Garritan sounds/Aria Player: more RAM = more available sounds). 512MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional 2GB hard drive space is required for all VST/AU sounds included with Finale 2009. Optional MIDI interface MIDI input and/or playback device Printer Scanner Microphone required for use of MicNotator® A soundcard (including a DirectSound AS20 recommended driver) is required for playing the Garritan sounds in Windows. Better processor and hard drive speed is required for simultaneous use of more VST/AU instruments. File Compatibility Finale family software can open files in the same or newer software version but files created in a newer version cannot be opened in an older version unless converted via MusicXML. * Macintosh OS Leopard Users: Finale 2009 supports Mac OS 10.5.Format: WIN XPVISTA/MAC 10.4 OR LATERUB/DVD SOFTWARE Genre: REFERENCE / LIFESTYLE UPC: 606776001588 Manufacturer No: MM00157

Sibelius 5 Competitive Upgrade

Competitive Upgrade Offer only available to Finale, Encore, Mosaic and Sibelius Student Edition users residing within North, Central and South America Minimum System Requirements - PC - Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista, 512MB+ RAM, 350MB hard disk space, DVD-ROM drive / Recommended - 1GB+ total RAM, 3.5GB total hard disk space, ASIO-compatible soundcard / Mac - Mac OS X 10.4 or later, 512MB+ RAM, 350MB hard disk space, DVD-ROM drive / Sibelius 5 is a Universal application that runs on both PowerPC processors and new Macs with Intel processors. Recommended - G5 or Intel processor, 1GB+ total RAM, 3.5GB total hard disk space

NOTATION TECHNOLOGIES Play Music

Play Music is an easy and powerful music tool that takes the work out of creating your music! Add slurs, bar lines, staff, tuplets and ties with no trouble Transpose notes with all major, minor, augmented and diminished intervals Graphic Mixer window with settings for Program Change, Voice, MIDI Channel, Solo, Record, Volume, Active Voice Monitor and Port It's got everything an aspiring musician needs to present their music to the world!

Music Creator 2003

Music Creator 2003 may be one of the most impressive midrange digital audio solutions currently available. Published by respected music software publisher Cakewalk, Music Creator is a powerful and affordable application that comes packed with a surprising number of high-end amenities.

Indeed, Music Creator is essentially a less capable adaptation of Cakewalk's celebrated professional-level music system, the considerably more pricey Sonar. Certainly anyone familiar with Sonar will instantly recognize the program's presentation. Even those who don't will have little trouble becoming acclimatized, as Cakewalk has furnished a large and detailed set of tutorials designed to guide newcomers through the procedures and pitfalls of PC music making.

Supporting traditional instruments such as guitars and drum kits, and MIDI-based devices such as computerized keyboards, Music Creator is extremely versatile. You'll need to supply the equipment to transfer your sounds into the computer at first, but the program is ready to handle everything thereafter.

Through its graphic waveform-based interface, Music Creator allows you to fine-tune and reposition your audio and MIDI files, apply multiple effects to both single and multiple tracks, and take advantage of an expansive range of synthesized virtual instrument sounds. With a little practice, you can add fades and crossfades, rip samples from your favorite CDs, and concoct any number of ACID-type loops. Of course, one of the great advantages of digital recording is the ease with which you can remove unwanted background noises and wayward notes, and the program allows you to do just that with just a few mouse clicks.

The package also features a stripped down version of Cakewalk's reasonably respected CD burning utility Pyro, and an extremely valuable search tool that automatically checks your drive(s) for those easily misplaced bits and bytes of seemingly lost tracks.

Despite its relatively friendly nature, Music Creator sports a wealth of rather complex concepts, and thus shouldn't be taken lightly. PC music rookies and hobbyists may well find that Music Creator 2003 is the only application they'll ever need. --Gordon Goble

With Music Creator 2003 you can simply connect any instrument to your PC and record audio and MIDI tracks using instruments, vocals, or audio loops. You can also write music for CDs, sheet music, home videos, and the Internet. Music Creator 2003 includes Pyro Express CD Maker and WAV Ripper, Virtual Sound Canvas DXi soft synth, Dreamstation DXi soft synth, and an ACID audio loop library.

Music Creator is designed to let you concentrate on making music, and not bog you down with confusing software. No matter what you want to record--guitars, keyboards, vocals, CD samples, or any other sound source--Music Creator makes it easy. Record your own tracks, or click and drag to create music with loops from the included Cakewalk loops library.

Intuitive point-and-click tools make it a snap to quickly edit, arrange, and mix your music with professional-sounding effects and great synth sounds. When you're done, share your music with family and friends: burn it on CD with the included Pyro Express CD Maker, print out sheet music, or create MP3s or Windows Media files to distribute your music on the Internet.