Music Notation Software for everyday musicians

American Music Teacher, Feb-March, 2005

Notation Software, Inc., 317-109th Ave. S.E., Bellevue, WA 98004; (877) 353-7297 fax: (425) 688-0795; sales@notation.com; www.notation.com. MidiNotate Musician 1.0 $49.95; MidiNotate Composer 1.0 $99.95.

Notation Software, Inc. has released two easy-to-use music notation software products for everyone who enjoys music: MidiNotate Musician and MidiNotate Composer.

MidiNotate Musician allows users to follow the musical notes on their screens as they listen to the music and to print their own sheet music. After downloading music from the Internet, instrumentalists or vocalists can set up practice loops, change lyrics, transpose to suit their instrument or vocal range and use Musician as their accompanist. Anyone who reads musical notation can study scores, and others can learn musical notation by watching the notes as they listen to familiar songs.

MidiNotate Composer can be used to compose or arrange music. Building on the features of MidiNotate Musician, MidiNotate Composer adds the capability to change the underlying sound of the music, as well as extensively edit the musical notation. Composers can create music using an electronic keyboard or a computer keyboard and mouse. Arrangers can start with a MIDI file downloaded from the Internet and modify the music to make it their own. With a wide array of musical notation features, MidiNotate Composer will produce clearly written sheet music to share with others.

MidiNotate Composer and MidiNotate Musician run on Windows 98, 2000, ME and XP. Free thirty-day trial versions of both new products are available at www.notation.com/ midinotatedownload.htm. They also can be purchased online.