The folks over at Notation Software have updated and released on June 15, 2010 the new version of their software offerings of Notation Composer and Notation Musician with release 2.6
This release contains many new features and enhancements to make music-making even easier and more enjoyable.
If you haven’t used Notation’s Software before they are designed around turning midi files into sheet music. You may want to try them out. They have free trail versions so that you can test them first.
Although other programs have this ability, Notation Musician ($38) and Composer ($88) take it to a higher level with an extended set of features and tools to help you format and enhance the imported music.
Some of the basic features are converting midi to sheet music, seeing notes play, practice sessions to play along with the band, making sing-along karaoke parts and fakebook lead sheets, adding lyrics or symbols or text, and printing sheets and parts.
Composer is a little more than twice the cost and adds abilities for editing, arranging and composing songs. It also has direct midi instrument to sheet music and fine tune editing of any note with their drawing effects tools.
The new release adds these improvements.
For Notation Musician and Notation Composer:
- Even better accuracy and readability of transcribed scores.
Notation Software are already acclaimed as the best MIDI-to-notation programs available, and now they’re even better.
- Improved Chord Name transcription and editing
- No more latency issues! 2.6 products have calibration detection for MIDI devices.
- Quicker editing and file handling response time.
- More flexible Easy Notes (Pitch Name) display options
select with or without the key signature, as well as with or without courtesy accidentals. The “Easy notes” grows with the aspiring musician!
see and hear chord names and their notes as you enter chord names, or even play the chord on your MIDI keyboard to enter it in the score.
For Notation Composer:
- Innovative “Rebar” feature -
- “What you see (and hear) is what you get”
now you can freely record a song without playing to a metronome, and then adjust the barlines afterward. You get the beauty of a live performance, and the quality of sheet music that used to require playing to a metronome or other type of click track. This capability is not found in any other music notation software!
Notation Composer now automatically ties together the notation and the performance of the notes as you edit. (You can still edit the notation and performance separately as well.)
Check out the product pages here: Notation Musician and Notation Composer.
Once there read up on the software and then click at the top of the page of new version comparison or the products menu link to get to the comparsion chart for the two programs.
For the free trail version you can find those here: Free Trail Notation Musician and Free Trial Notation Composer
