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| General
presentation |
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| Musical
text processor allowing to write each element of a score |
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| Print
the score in high quality |
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| Play
the score on your sound card or MIDI synthesizer/piano |
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| For
Windows 95,98,ME,2000,XP,Vista |
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| For Mac
OS X (10.3 or later) |
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| Documentation et training |
| English
software and manual |
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| Progressive
lessons to help using the software |
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| Full
user manual available on screen |
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| Paper
manual with the most important lessons |
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| Hints
to help you find the tools and their keyboard shortcuts |
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| Music
course suited to users without musical background |
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| Practical
training to play the music keyboard |
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| Notes entry |
| Note
entry with the mouse and/or the musical keyboard or the
computer piano window |
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| Play on
the musical keyboard, Pizzicato transcribes the notes on
the screen |
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| Recorder
window with metronome and tempo value |
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| Automatic
spacing and layout of notes |
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| The
added or edited notes are played as an immediate feedback |
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| Automatic
scrolling of the score while playing |
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| Visualization
of playing notes by coloring or with a scrolling vertical
bar |
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| Up to 8
voices per staff |
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| Work
and view the score using a graphic zoom |
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| Linear
view that displays the measures one next to the other,
outside of any page layout |
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| Grace
notes and various note heads |
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| Custom
layout of notes inside a measure |
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| Copy/Paste
measures |
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| Triplets
and tuplets |
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| Automatic
measure transposition function |
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| Cross-staff
beaming for piano scores. |
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| Specific
tools to display and play single and multiple grace notes |
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| Special
copy/paste function to split or merge voices |
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| Note
color can be customized for each note |
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| Function
to assign note colors according to the note name or pitch |
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| Graphic
note editor window to view and edit the notes as small
lines |
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| Function
to display the note names (C, D, E,...) |
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| Graphic
entry mode for notes on the staff |
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| Structure of the score |
| Maximum
number of instruments per system |
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| Unlimited
size of the score |
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| Custom
page layout |
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| Printing
at 100 % |
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| Printing
at 85 % |
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| Printing
in all sizes (zoom for printer) |
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| Orchestral
score optimization |
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| Reduced
staff size |
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| Guitar
tablature staves and tablature library |
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| Multi-document,
multi-score |
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| Measure
numbers |
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| Page
numbers |
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| Score
creation wizard |
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| Clefs, key signatures and time
signatures |
| Treble
clef and Bass clef |
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| Other
clefs (C, percussion...) |
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| Keys
signatures from 7b to 7# |
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| Arbitrary
key signatures |
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| Different
key signature for each staff (transposing instruments) |
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| Time
signature selection |
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| Composite
time signatures (3+4 /4, 6+2 /8...) |
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| Flexibility
to display/hide the time and key signatures, creating
free measures, cut measures... |
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| Easy
handling of upbeats and incomplete measures |
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| Chords, text, lyrics |
| Chord
symbols |
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| Chords
diagrams for the guitar |
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| Transcription
of chords into notes |
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| Chord
analysis and chord searching on a melody |
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| Personalized
chord library |
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| Chord
progression fast encoding window |
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| Text
blocks for titles, author, numbers... |
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| Up to 8
lines of lyrics; each syllable is automatically aligned
under the notes |
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| Lyrics
fast encoding window |
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| Note
colored according to the current chord structure |
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| MIDI effects and handling -
Performance of the score |
| Realistic
performance of symbols (nuances, tempo, accents, special
effects...) |
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| MIDI
Sequencer |
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| Possibility
to add sophisticated MIDI effects |
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| Graphic
editor window for the MIDI effects (Volume, tempo,
reverb,...) |
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| Possibility
to create your own graphic and MIDI symbols |
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| MIDI
input(s)/output(s) |
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| GM
(General MIDI) synthesizer handling |
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| Drivers
to give access to any sound of most synthesizers on the
market |
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| Import
MIDI files |
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| Export
MIDI files |
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| Others |
| Copy
pictures of measures to your text processor |
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| Global
view, assembling all the best tools of Pizzicato in one
single efficient window |
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| Levels
of UNDO |
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| Tool
palettes with a large selection of graphic symbols |
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| Specific
tool palette for the guitar |
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| Customize
tool palettes |
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| TrueType
music font |
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| Possible
to use some other music fonts from the market |
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| Sequencer,
piano roll, score and instruments windows |
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| Personalized
instrument window (mixing table) |
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| Special
window designed to be able to read a score with no page
turn |
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| Percussion
handling and writing |
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| Parts
extraction from a conductor score |
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| Import
NIFF files (to cooperate with a scanning program) |
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| MusicXML
export function to exchange scores with other music
software |
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| MusicXML
import function from other music software |
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| Automatic
saving and backup handling |
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| Music composition tools -
Intuitive composition |
| Accompaniment
styles |
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| Import
Yamaha style files (*STY) and use them in the real time
and score arrangers |
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| Music
library tools, to help you compose and build music scores
on the basis of rhythmic, melodic and chord blocks. |
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| Multi-versions
measures |
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| Smart
link copy/cut function, to help you structure music
composition based on rhythmic, melodic and harmonic
aspects and transformations |
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| Conductor
window to assemble a music composition from several
little scores, rhythmic patterns, smart copies,... |
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| From a
single MIDI keyboard, the Pizzicato virtual keyboards
lets you play several instruments at once. Transform your
MIDI keyboard into a multiple playing keyboard. |
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| Hundreds
of harmonic spaces help you to navigate through a given
set of chords and to create a chord progression in an
intuitive way, just by listening |
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| Real
time arranger, to select styles and chords in an
intuitive way, by listening |
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| Large
libraries with tens of thousands of basic musical
structures such as chords, chords progressions, rhythmic
and melodic sequences,... |
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| Score
arranger. Starting with a chord progression, you may add
individual instrumental patterns from the library or from
your own creation. A set of harmony rules help you to add
secondary voices and to construct your score. |
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| Music
generator : a programmable module used to create musical
patterns (rhythms, melodies, chord progressions) by the
thousands, starting from simple criteria you define.
These patterns may then be dragged/dropped inside your
own composition. |
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| The
graphic music vector: you can draw the shape of a melody
directly on the staff and watch it be transformed into a
melody based on chords and scales. You can reshape the
rhythmic dimension in several ways. This is the basis of
intuitive composition. |
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| Creation
and handling of general chords and scales that can be
used with the score arranger and the music vectors |
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| Audio functions |
| You may
open, listen to, record and edit standard audio WAVE
files (".wav" extension) |
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| You may
export your music score to a WAVE file so that you can
use that file with your CD burning software to create an
audio CD. |
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| You may
associate one WAVE file with the score playing in MIDI,
for instance to add your voice or an instrument through a
microphone. |
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| You may
associate several WAVE files with the score playing in
MIDI, for instance to add your voice or an instrument
through a microphone. |
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| A real
instrument orchestral sound library (1.2 GB) helps you to
create a realistic sound performance |
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| You can
import sounds in the SoundFont format and use them
directly in a music composition |
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| You can
adjust tuning and the exact frequencies of each note of
the scale to affect the playback of the score |
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| A
modular customized sound synthesizer helps you to create
your own sounds and work on instruments samples that you
can use in a music composition |
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| A
spectral analyser helps you to work on sound frequencies
and then resynthesize the audio signal |
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