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Lei, composer (Switzerland) - "In fact, I
started at once to appreciate the natural of Pizzicato. It was
just like using a music sheet and a pencil with its rubber."
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How can Pizzicato help you to compose music?First of all, what does "music composition help" mean? It means a series of tools that will help you to compose your music and to organize your musical ideas. The main difference between the music notation tools and the music composition tools is that the music composition tools will help you answer the questions of what rhythms, what notes, what chords you will be using to create your music. These tools will help you to arrange, organize, develop and apply your music ideas into a full score. It does not mean that the computer composes music all by itself. These tools propose, advise, arrange or add notes, chords, rhythms and help you in your creative work. But the conductor who controls this is always... ...YOU of course! See the full article on the subject... Music composition libraries: your musical construction setThe main tools of Pizzicato Professional regarding music composition are built on the principle that you may break music down into basic construction blocks made of:
You can create new construction blocks and assemble them in a thousand ways to structure your score. All this is done in music notation, interactively with all the tools explained in the music notation part of this site.
A series of structures and libraries of rhythms, melodies and chords are given. You can modify them, create new ones, combine them and handle them as you want to create systematic accompaniments, musical structures, etc. About twenty prepared musical structured styles in light music are also proposed. You can modify them, analyze them, apply them and adapt them as you like to quickly get a light music accompaniment.
Learn how to compose your musicAssociated with this composition help system, Pizzicato contains several lessons allowing you to better manage and sequence your chords as well as to structure your music. If you never dared compose music, a series of progressive exercises will help you to take your first steps in music creation. Yes, you can learn how to compose! Even if you do not have ten years of musical studies behind you. Because if you are motivated and if you really feel the desire to express yourself through music, the composition lessons will inevitably bring you a better knowledge in this field.
Helping you to find the chordsPizzicato can help you to select chords, thanks to its chords analysis tool. Write a melody. Pizzicato analyses it and suggests you the chords that would accompany it. Listen to the result. Then modify, select, change and test. Pizzicato gives you many choices and you decide the one you prefer, the one that best reflects the atmosphere you want to communicate through your music.
Smart links The smart link lets you take rhythmic values found somewhere in a score, melodic values found anywhere else in the score, chords in even another set of measures and combine them all into one or more measures. It is like a mixer you can feed with rhythms, melodies and chords. The resulting music is a set of measures called computed measures. The important point to understand with a smart link is that the original source of rhythms, melodies and chords stay connected to the resulting computed measures. A change in any one of the source components may affect the computed measures. It is like a spreadsheet: a cell may be recomputed when another cell - to which it is related - is modified. Let us explain this with some examples. With a smart link, you can for example (colored measures are computed measures) :
You may also arrange melodies on chords or combine the examples above in different ways. Every parameter may be personalized. When you modify the original melody, the computed melodies automatically adapt themselves, even if there are 25 copies in a full orchestral score. This lets you do experimental work on a score, with a result that you can hear right away.
The conductor view and the score groups The conductor view has been designed to be your music composition desktop. As you may have several scores in a music document, there must be a tool to organize and manage them and to play them easily and in many combinations. The conductor view lets you view and handle scores (whether single measure scores or full orchestral scores):
Then you may assemble them in a scores group to play them simultaneously and create an arrangement:
In this view, you can:
This window is a sophisticated arranger, because you can also add chords progressions so as to influence all scores and harmonize them together.
Instruments selection The conductor view includes a section which presents instruments and prepared sections that you just need to drag in the main area to create a ready to use score or to add a new instrument to an existing score:
A color system based on the main instrument families helps you to quickly identify parts in the score you are manipulating. Clefs and characteristics of the instruments (left-right position in the orchestra, range, MIDI parameters,...) are injected into the score from the instruments data base:
It is now the fastest way to create a score template: you drag instruments one by one in the order you want them. You can of course modify or add personal instruments and full prepared sections.
Virtual keyboards The purpose of a virtual keyboard is to expand the playing possibilities of a single musical keyboard and to make it possible to play several instruments with only one keyboard. This principle is common in most synthesizers and is often called a performance. It is a preset of various sounds programmed on the keyboard and that may be used together in a performance. On the screen you see a keyboard with different colored sections. You can simply drag an instrument of the data base in a keyboard area and adjust its range as needed:
The simple act of playing on a keyboard connected to your computer (or clicking on this keyboard on the screen) will send the notes to the right instruments of your MIDI card or external synthetiser. For every instrument area, you can define a lot of parameters, for example:
With the virtual keyboards, your simple MIDI keyboard lets you perform a real time performance on several instruments, including percussion instruments.
The Musical Libraries The musical libraries accessible in the conductor view are composed of various sets of different instruments. Instead of having a series of rock, samba, slow, reggae or other rhythm patterns, we have each percussion instrument (cymbals, toms,...) but also various basses and accompaniment instruments. For each one, the library includes various patterns of one or more measures. The number of combinations is nearly unlimited and you can add new blocks to it (a block is simply a score). These construction blocks can be used in the conductor view, as explained above, to construct your rhythmic sequences using multiple choice for every instrument:
You just need to drag them in a score group and to graphically position them while listening to the result as your work progresses:
All the possibilities seen above may be combined with the musical libraries.
Let us summarize... If you have read all these pages, you have now a quite precise outline of what Pizzicato helps you to do in music. It is not accidental. It is the result of 13 years invested in research and development of tools adapted to the needs of musicians, for both beginners and professionals. It is a lot of musical power at your fingertips. It is up to you to decide if you want to use it fully.
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