Features

Easy to install and set up
Create piano, band, orchestral, choral, and lead sheet notation
Print arrangements of up to 16 instruments
Comes with fun music and templates to get started

Notating your music has never been easier

GenieSoft Score Writer is the affordable notation software that makes recording, editing, arranging and printing your music easy, fast and enjoyable. You can quickly enter notes on-screen with your mouse or computer keyboard, or record a MIDI performance. 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.

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Figure 1: Score Writer Screen

Quality page layout

The score window in Score Writer allows you to notate your music quickly and easily. You control all notation elements with the mouse or computer keyboard. Extensive text handling functions make it easy to add or edit lyrics, page text, measure text and rehearsal marks. Move staves on the page with a click of the mouse -- even resize the music on the page

Powerful MIDI features

Score Writer has the MIDI recording capabilities you’ve always wanted in a notation program. It reads and writes standard MIDI files, provides tape deck-style transport controls, as well as multiple recording options. Score Writer offers complete MIDI playback of dynamics markings, repeats and endings. And you can edit your recorded MIDI performance on-screen, using the score window.

Extensive Notation Features

Score Writer has extensive notation symbols including slurs, ties, grace notes, cue notes, tuplets, accents marks, ornaments, ottava, lift, fall off, glissando up/down, and dynamics markings. Notating drum parts has never been easier. You can play your drum sounds on a MIDI instrument and Score Writer will place the notes with percussion note heads onto a five line percussion staff. It even features an Expression palette so you can enter tempo and other changes easily.

Score Writer Features

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

View/Edit Windows

WYSISWYG Page layout—what you see and edit is what you get
Zoom score from 10% - 200%

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

Meters/Keys

Multiple meters
Different meters between staves are supported graphically

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

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

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

Chords

Automatic chord recognition in step entry (MIDI) mode
Mouse click and computer keyboard entry of chords
Chords transpose

Guitar Frames

Mouse click entry of chords
Chord can be altered after they are entered

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

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

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

VST Hosting

Host any VST instrument
Save playback to wave file
Instrument definitions for most sample libraries playback to wave file

Output

Any compatible printer
Part extraction with auto transpose and multi-measure rests
Standard MIDI files

Transposition

Chromatic
Diatonic
Enharmonic
Includes notes and chord symbols

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.

System Requirements

Macintosh OS X 10.4 and above

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

Windows 95-Vista

Pentium 100 MHz
256Mb application RAM
Windows-compatible Printer
Windows-compatible MIDI interface required for MIDI recording
CD-ROM drive

Score Writer 4 comes on CD-ROM or can be downloaded.