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Pesonalcomposer product features
... This music writing software makes the process of writing music more flexible and less time-consuming
| Imports MIDI, RIFF-MIDI, NIFF and Music-XML files. |
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| Exports MIDI and NIFF files. |
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| Imports Type 0 or Type 1 MIDI files. |
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| Exports Type 1 standard MIDI files. |
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| Copy a selected area and paste to a WP, DTP, or Graphics application. |
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| Opens files from previous versions of program. |
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| Use scroll mouse for zoom. |
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| Intermediate barline symbol. |
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| Blank pages may be inserted into the score, for text or other uses. |
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| Use scroll mouse for scrolling. |
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| View a score in page view. |
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| View a score in scroll view (continuous staff). |
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| Hide secondary beams. |
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| Beams will cross barlines. |
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| Can use certain alternate music fonts. |
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| Text equivalents for Pedal marks. |
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| Use short staff names or none at all in systems after the first. |
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| Optional boxes or circles around measure numbers (square box, rounded box, circle). |
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| Add rehearsal marks emphasized with rectangles, rounded rectangles, or circles. |
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| Wavy, dashed, and dotted straight lines, optionally with arrowheads. |
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| Automatically adjusts note spacing to accommodate accidental on first beat of a measure. |
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| Note-owned fingering numbers, in vertical array. |
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| Move between main score window and individual part views. |
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| Restart page numbers and measure numbers anywhere. |
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| Enlarge/reduce a view between 33% and 2250% of normal working size. |
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| Use on-screen rulers and non-printing guide lines to position score elements. |
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| View each window in any fashion desired (view, magnification, etc.) |
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| Cut, copy, and paste between windows. |
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| Move immediately to a specified page or measure. |
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| Number of scores open at once: PC-44, unlimited; PC-16, 4; PC-8, 2. |
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| Tool palettes can follow a movable main tool palette. |
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| Tool palettes can be reshaped. |
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| Tool palettes can be larger or smaller (PC-8 palettes are large only) |
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| Toolbars can be larger or smaller (PC-8 larger only) |
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| Status Line identifies objects and parameters. |
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| Vanishing palettes for a "cleaner" look. |
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| Use a palette to select notes, accidentals, rests or articulations. |
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| Easy start-up instructions. |
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| Comprehensive user manual on disk. |
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| Comprehensive on-line documentation with direct links. |
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| On-screen messages identify tools and their uses. |
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| Choose from pre-designed score templates, design your own. |
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| Select rhythmic values with the computer keyboard or with the mouse. |
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| Enter pitches and position them with the mouse. |
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| Enter pitches and position them with the computer keyboard. |
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| Select and position articulation markings, text, and dynamics. |
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| Notate as you play a MIDI instrument, with a program-supplied metronome. |
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| Set rhythmic values with the MIDI keyboard, computer keyboard or from a palette. |
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| Record and play with a resolution of 1024 parts per quarter note. |
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| Record on one staff while playing back others. |
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| Set split point for recording two parts. |
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| Preset note quantization. |
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| Preselect MIDI controllers to be hidden or filtered out. |
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| In Step Time mode, enter pitches one beat at a time using a MIDI instrument. |
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| Enter rhythmic values from a double-whole note to a 128th note. |
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| Define up to four independent note streams of music (voices) per staff. |
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| Define up to four timbres (channels and patches) per staff. |
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| Optionally enter as many notes in a measure as you wish, regardless of time sig. |
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| Multiple staff sizes in the same score. |
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| Ossia staves, cue staves. |
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| Choose from ten standard staff sizes, or define a custom size. |
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| Set the number of lines in any staff from 1 to 15. |
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| Choose from 15 clefs. |
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| Place a new clef at the start or within any measure. |
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| Optionally hide a clef, time signature, or key signature. |
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| Automatic courtesy clef at the end of previous line. Hide if desired. |
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| Restart measure numbers any number of times. |
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| Easily set up Key and Time signatures. |
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| Use standard key signatures. |
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| Use a different key signature in each staff. |
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| Create complex time signatures. |
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| Hide key and time signatures if desired. |
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| Ignore the key signature on percussion staves. |
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| Automatically place double barlines before key changes. |
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| Easily place an end barline and trim empty measures. |
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| Restart measure numbers any number of times. |
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| Hide a measure number. |
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| Rich Text box permits block text with style, formatting, and color options. |
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| Define up to 64 QuickFonts. |
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| Create and position titles, copyright notices and other text. |
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| Text on master page appears on all pages. |
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| Text macro can be placed on any page, to print on all following pages. |
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| Automatic page numbering. |
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| Stamp each page with file name, date and time. |
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| Place large blocks of text with a built-in text editor. |
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| Cut, copy and paste text. |
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| Create and edit text blocks on any view. |
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| Control font, size, style and alignment. |
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| Independently specify the alignment, position and font for any staff name. |
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| Change style of all selected text by pressing B, I, U on keyboard. |
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| Change fonts globally for text blocks, staff names, group names and lyrics. |
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| Up to 8 lines of lyrics. |
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| Auto space hyphens in lyrics . |
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| Auto melismas in lyrics. |
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| Type lyrics directly onto the score. |
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| Automatically aligns lyrics with notes. |
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| Align lyric lines globally or syllable-by-syllable. |
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| Mix fonts, sizes and styles as needed. |
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| Plays guitar chords. |
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| Permits user-defined chord types. |
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| Plays a Tab staff. |
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| TAB clef auto-adjusts to staff height. |
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| Select and place chord names and/or chord frames easily. |
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| Chord names can be user defined. |
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| Automatically transpose chord symbols with changes in key. |
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| Use positioning guides to accurately place chord symbols. |
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| Guitar Tablature notation. |
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| TAB clef. Auto-adjusts to staff height. |
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| Supports PAS percussion notation standard as well as the MIDI standard. |
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| Auto drum rolls. |
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| “Copy to end” selected staves, for pasting elsewhere. |
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| A barline can be moved with respect to notes, to reformat measures. |
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| Dynamics can be incremented/decremented (such as from f < > ff) in place. |
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| Define music metrics - line widths, spacings of notes, accidentals, clefs, etc. |
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| Select any group of notes, including partial measures, for editing. |
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| Objects will snap to guide lines (option). |
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| Focused item is displayed in color (optional). |
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| Auto grace notes. |
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| Lock measures against positional changes by page refreshing or reformatting. |
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| Each slur end can be "owned" by a note, and moves with that note. |
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| When an object is focused, a dashed blue line connects to the owning note, beat, or measure. |
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| When placing a hairpin or slur, cursor jumps to right end for faster editing. |
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| Insert, cut, copy, and delete music. |
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| Click and drag a single note horizontally or vertically. |
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| Move selected groups of notes verically. |
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| Double-click almost any item for immediate access to its parameters. |
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| Reposition any object or text anywhere on the page simply by dragging it. |
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| Transpose, rebeam and apply other changes to music. |
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| Select and position articulation markings, text and dynamics. |
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| Apply articulations with automatic positioning and stem direction sensitivity. |
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| Respace notes and rests within measures. |
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| Adjust measure widths by moving barlines. |
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| Control stem direction individually or throughout manuscript. |
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| Control stem direction individually or throughout manuscript. |
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| Add graphic repeat signs and text repeat markings. |
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| Adjust the positions of beats in a measure. |
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| Adjust positions of notes without moving the beats. |
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| Adjust ties, slurs, crescendos and diminuendos. |
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| Add rehearsal marks emphasized with rectangles. |
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| Easily place a repeat barline and a repeat ending for any selected region. |
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| Move all notes in a selected region upward or downward using the arrow keys. |
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| Move notes from one "Voice" to another. |
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| Extract one or more staves at once. |
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| Text macros for part-extract templates. |
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| Automatic condensing of empty measures and placing of multimeasure rests. |
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| Create end barline and trim empty measures. |
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| Transpose part on extraction, or transpose it only on playback. |
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| Page-owned text on Page 1 and master-page items are copied to extracted part. |
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| Extraction copies original manuscript attributes such as measure numbering. |
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| Setup and layout of extracted part can be based on the original score or a template. |
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| Dynamics and MIDI controllers designated as "all staves" extract with each part. |
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| Secondary beams can be hidden. |
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| Cross-barline beaming is supported. |
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| Supports cross-staff notes and beaming, beam width, rests within beam groups. |
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| Select standard oval notes or shaped notes. |
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| Control stem direction of individual notes or selected groups of notes. |
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| Independently position note-heads and stems if desired. |
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| Assign a playback meaning to any graphic. |
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| Add Cue Notes - easily place cue notes on any staff. |
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| Automatic Barlines - Place double-barlines automatically before all key changes. |
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| Change fonts globally for text blocks, staff names, group names and lyrics. |
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| Change the stem direction of all notes in a selected group. |
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| Change the sizes of note-heads of all the notes in the selected region. |
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| Paste graphics from other applications. |
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| Select any area and copy it as a WMF or BMP graphic. |
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| Create lines, ellipses, rectangles, perfect circles and squares. |
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| Place dotted, dashed, and wavy lines. |
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| Control line thickness and fill for rectangles and ellipses. |
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| Dynamics, octave marks, repeats and tempo marks control playback. |
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| Auto trills, turns, and mordents using only the signs. |
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| Auto arpeggios over one or two staves. Just place a wavy line. |
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| Auto glissandos. Just place a straight or wavy line. |
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| Auto pitch bend for continuous instruments such as trumpet, violin. |
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| User-definable chords. |
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| Auto drum rolls. |
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| Plays guitar chords. |
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| D.S., D.C., Segno, al coda and al fine control playback. |
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| Stem slashes on notes effect repeats. |
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| On-screen timer for playback. |
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| Repeat signs (slashes) repeat playback of note groups and measures. |
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| Use a MIDI message symbol to set or change playback transpose. |
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| Fermatas will pause playback. |
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| User-defined default values for dynamics. |
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| Dynamics, octave marks, repeats and tempo marks control playback. |
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| Play your score through a MIDI instrument, Sound Module, or Sound Card. |
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| On-screen mixer adjusts tempo, volume of each staff, solo or mute staves. |
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| Play selected staves or an entire score, start and stop at will. |
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| After playback, display returns to the starting measure. |
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| Scrolls music on-screen during playback in Page view. |
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| Scrolls music on-screen during playback in Scroll view. |
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| Define playback sound of each staff. |
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| Easily assign a MIDI channel or patch, and solo/mute setting for each staff. |
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| Define playback of interpretive marks, text and shapes. |
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| Play a score as notated or as recorded. |
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| Dynamics, octave marks, repeats and tempo marks control playback. |
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| Place and edit individual MIDI events. |
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| MIDI controllers can be single events or transitions, linear or nonlinear. |
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| Control the layout of individual staff systems and page margins. |
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| Insert blank pages into score. |
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| Move lyrics, chords, expressions, titles, text blocks and other elements. |
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| Fit selected measures into staff systems. |
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| Insert staff systems into your music while keeping the original systems intact. |
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| Insert staff systems while reflowing measures across systems and pages. |
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| Easily set the distance between staves. |
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| Indent staff systems and adjust systems horizontally or vertically. |
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| Simplify the conductor's score by hiding resting instruments. |
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| Print on virtually any Windows-compatible printer. |
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| Print random pages. |
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| One-side or two-side printing. |
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| Collate pages. |
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| Print to a file that can be printed without Personal Composer. |
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| Symmetric slurs and hairpins for easy editing. |
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| On-screen timer for recording and playback. |
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... Notation software powerful enough for professionals, yet affordable enough for everyone
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