Notation software combine staves

Short installation guides offer a convenient installation sequence. Available in the languages English, German, Spanish. The integrated standard synthesizer offers great sound with the standard soundfont package.

An advanced soundfont package is part of the standard delivery, with the capability to use other General MIDI soundfonts in sf2 and sf3 formats. Create a new song using a pre-defined template for a variety of solo instruments, duet pairs, small ensembles, and large ensembles.

You can also customize song templates for your particular group. Add notes using a number of convenient methods: With your mouse and computer keyboard. Using the Sequential Note Entry method, so you rarely have to select the note duration, even when the sequence of notes has different note duration.

Add staves instrument parts. Add measures. The recording of your performance is transcribed using the same excellent MIDI-to-notation transcription technology that notation musician uses to transcribe MIDI files to sheet music. Set up the tempo for recording. Set up the number of pick-up measures. Record punch in into a selected region of a staff. Add punch in a recording of pitch bends or MIDI controllers, on top of notes previously recorded. Record without a metronome and adjust the barlines with the ReBar feature.

Simply use the performance tools by drawing on the score with your mouse or finger for touchpads. Edit the exact as-performed rhythms of notes using the Piano Roll. Edit the loudness of individual notes while viewing a graphical representation of the loudness of each note. Snap "quantize" the as-performed attack or release of a note to its notated rhythm. Lock the as-performed rhythm of a note to independently change its notated rhythm ie keep the "live" performance but change the notation.

Edit the underlying performance of ornaments: grace notes, trills, turns, tremolos, and arpeggios. Graphically edit any MIDI controller data inclucing: song tempo, volume levels, left-to-right pan, pedal, and pitch bends.

Songs can be exported as uncompressed wave files wav format or compressed as mp3, ogg, or flac. The sound is used from the loaded soundfont. Flexible loading of soundfonts in sf2- and sf3-format. Import of MusicXML files in the formats. Home Musicians. What Are You Waiting For? Import MIDI files, turn them into brilliant sheet music, and export for performance.

However, there are a few other factors which I'll bear in mind: Does the package export out MIDI for free, or do you need to pay for the software?

How much does it cost? How easy is the editing of notes for minor adjustments to the score? Is it possible to add dynamics, accents, ornaments, articulations and other music symbols afterwards?

Let's begin: The Acid Test. I am mainly looking to see how the software handles 'overlapping' notes with potentially many voices on a stave. Compare diagram A, B and C see right. A is how it should be done. B portrays the same information, albeit with some awkward ties well they don't look too bad now, but wait until you have four or more overlapping voices!

But diagram C cops out by changing the note durations to match the note underneath. Does the software go for the best diagram A type? The below mini-reviews will take this and much more into consideration.

Note: The below judgements best at top are in respect to the program's ability to transcribe MIDIs to readable notation, and are not necessarily an indication of the program's maximum ability to create a decent music transcription internally from scratch. There's little to choose between this and MidiIllustrator in terms of note transcription as they both have their little advantages and disadvantages.

But overall, MidiNotate Musician comes out on top thanks to its superior editing and extra music symbols. One problem however is that sometimes you'll find that [dotted quaver - quaver - dotted quaver] , gets turned into a triplet, but maybe that bug will be fixed once it's out of beta.

MidiNotate Musician is an upgrade from MidiNotate 4. Click here to buy MidiNotate now called "Notation Musician" directly. See example score 2nd: MidiIllustrator v1. Excellent transcription of notes on the whole - like MidiNotate Musician, it just needs a few tweaks needed here and there. See example score 3rd: Sibelius v3. Though it's a pity it doesn't have the option to simplify a score like MidiNotate Musician and MidiIllustrator can. On the whole, it's quite accurate, but there are times when the presentation of the notes could be improved, as stems and rests often obscure notes.

Finally, the demo version of Sibelius can print sheet music, but has the name 'Sibelius' splattered in the background. Download the demo of Sibelius here. See example score 4: Turandot v1. Additionally, notes aren't ever tied across bars. But often, notes are obscuring sharps, and notes aren't always beamed together in beats see the first group of notes in the treble clef of bar 5 for an example - it's quaver-semiquaver-quaver - which is 1.

So, not the most readable of translations, but it could be worse. But at least notes are beamed properly. Lots of notes are obscured though thanks to the clumsy formatting. It also missed out important rests so the timing looks a bit dodgy, but at least notes are beamed in groups properly. Just don't use too many overlapping voices!

Notes are generally formatted and beamed okay. Notes treated like diagram C. Unfortunately, NoteWorthy doesn't reformat the tying of notes after changing time signature or alter the appropriate naturals, sharps and flats after changing key signature. But at least the program's almost free.

Ties are only used across beats for beaming purposes. Also had problems with transposition. On my PC, most of the notes were thick horizontal lines in the bass clef. Otherwise not bad. Version tested was Finale Allegro r2. Also, adjacent notes played together say E, and F aren't distanced slightly. Finally, there's a distinct lack of ties and rests, forcing the performer to often rely on the horizontal spacing between notes to determine the timing.

So it is now handled as two different voices and each of them have a seperate staff. Now I want both voices together in only one staff, how can I do that? Oh and then another question: can one loop playback somehow without adding repeat to the score? Re: How to merge two Staves? Post by michelp » Wed Aug 20, pm Imploding music is a way to merge several staves, but it will mostly be useful if all staves have the same rhythm.

Then select layer 2 and "Show active layer only" Documents menu. Copy the contents of staff 2 and paste it into staff 1. Deselect "Show active layer only". Michel MacOsX Azerty kb. Post by got2go » Fri Aug 22, am Thank you!!