Light
Beginner
Professional
| Instruction manual - Pizzicato 3.3 | EN005 - Revision of 2008/04/30 |
Light |
Beginner |
Professional |
Introduction To Pizzicato
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Versions of Pizzicato [Light] [Beginner] [Professional]
We thank you for buying Pizzicato and we wish you welcome in its new musical universe.
Pizzicato is structured around three versions:
- Pizzicato Light
It is a basic version making it possible to learn music, make exercises, write small scores and use basic MIDI and audio recording features. You may also start to learn music composition and the musical keyboard.
- Pizzicato Beginner
It is a score editor making it possible to work scores up to 16 staves. It comprises more functionalities than Pizzicato Light, like the fast encoding of lyrics, the MIDI and audio functions, the scrolling view.... It also comprises the music course.
- Pizzicato Professional
Contains a multitude of additional functions and possibilities, compared to the Beginner version. Among others, it contains a musical composition help system and a style accompaniment system. The tools and options of this version give you a very powerful score editor as well as many tools to refine the interpretation of a score in MIDI.
These three versions comprise a user license, given to any person having bought one of these versions of Pizzicato. Three other versions are available. Those do not require a user license to be used, and this with the following restrictions:
- Pizzicato Shareware version
Free version of Pizzicato Light, for a one month period starting from the installation of the program on a computer. This version has all the functionalities of Pizzicato Light. It nevertheless prints the scores with a Pizzicato mosaic background. This version follows the guiding principle of Shareware software and implies that if the user wants to continue using it after the first month, he must buy the user license. With this version, you may save audio files that are not longer than one minute.
- Pizzicato Beginner - demonstration version
Pizzicato Beginner in demo version, with the following limitations:
- Does not allow to save your work, nor to export it in MIDI, audio or graphic,
- Does not allow to print
- Automatically quits after a certain time (but can be started again as many times as you want)
- Pizzicato Professional - demonstration version
Pizzicato Professional in demo version, with the following limitations:
- Does not allow to save your work, nor to export it in MIDI, audio or graphic,
- Does not allow to print
- Automatically quits after a certain time (but can be started again as many times as you want)
The working version can be changed through the Program version / Updates... item of the Options menu.
The user manual of Pizzicato [Light] [Beginner] [Professional]
The instruction manual was designed as a progressive approach of music, computers and Pizzicato. It is divided into a series of lessons each one treating a particular subject. Most of these lessons are made of a succession of practical steps that you are asked to execute with Pizzicato. The attention is laid on a balance between practice and theory.
Each lesson covers music, computer or the use of Pizzicato. The tables of content contain the references of each lesson. These divisions of the manual enable you to easily adapt your reading to your knowledge level. The professional musician will skip the music lessons and the well-informed in computer will skip the pages related to the computer.
In a general way, the lessons follow a progressive order. If you want to have a total control of Pizzicato, we advise you to study them in the exact sequence. If you are initially only interested by certain subjects of Pizzicato (music learning, score editor, Midi sequencer, composing or accompaniment), you can skip the lessons specific to the other fields. The introduction of a lesson shows each time the subjects covered and helps you estimate if the lesson is interesting for you or not.
You will also find a glossary that includes most of the words relating to music, computer or Pizzicato. Use it each time you don't fully understand the meaning of a word. Continuing to study the course without understanding the words can only create problems. Therefore, use the glossary abundantly! In the text of the lessons, the new introduced words are directly related to the glossary by a link. When dragging the mouse over it, the cursor becomes a hand. Click it and you get access to the definition of the word in the glossary.
According to the version you bought, a paper manual contains the main lessons required to learn using the program. The screen documentation nevertheless includes all the lessons for each version. According to the consulted manual, you only access the lessons concerning the version you have. Many lessons are common to all versions and some indicate differences between versions.
Goals of Pizzicato [Light] [Beginner] [Professional]
The design and creation of Pizzicato began in 1992. With Pizzicato, our goal is to create a software making it possible to approach music and computer without any preliminary knowledge of these subjects, while offering a maximum of musical functionalities to the professional. The future releases of Pizzicato will continue in that direction.
In order to be informed on the evolution of Pizzicato and to be able to access our technical support, we kindly request you to register yourself as an official user of Pizzicato. You can do so by returning to us the registration card included in your software package or directly register on our Web site.
For any question regarding Pizzicato, you can contact our technical support:
ARPEGE - MUSIC
29, rue de l'Enseignement
B-4800 VERVIERS
Belgium
Tel/Fax ++32 87-26.80.10or consult us on the Internet. Our site is:
Our E-mail address is
Announce your license number to the support staff. If your question concerns an installation problem or is related to the use of the program, please be in front of your computer while calling. We will help you as best as we can. The best way is an e-mail with full description of the problem. We usually answer within 24 hours in working days.
Do not hesitate to report to us in writing all the improvements and new functionalities you can think of. We will take your remarks into account for the development of future releases of Pizzicato. Our goal is to transform Pizzicato into your ideal work platform for computer-assisted music. To this end, your point of view is important to us.
All this being said, you are now ready to get to the heart of the matter: music on your computer. We wish you much pleasure in your discovery of the musical and software universe of Pizzicato!
Dominique Vandenneucker
Designer of Pizzicato
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