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 Pizzicato Composition Pro
Pizzicato
Composition Pro introduces the concept of intuitive music
composition. This is where you can start exploring music
composition like never before, from the solo instrument to the
full orchestra.
- You will
find innovative tools to explore harmony, melody
and rhythm, as well as to arrange your own
music.
- You have
access to the most advanced composition tools of
Pizzicato. You can graphically draw the shape of
a melody.
- Never seen
before - Intuitive composition tools make music
composition available to everyone.
- MIDI
sequencing and effects.
- Music
composition is not only notation - Discover audio
editing, sound creation, virtual synthesizers and a high
quality sound library.
- An
extensive and easy to follow tutorial helps you mastering
every aspect of Pizzicato.
- Pizzicato
may be used as a stand-alone software or as a companion
tool to any other music software.
Description
1 - User
manual and tutorials
2 - Music
Notation
3 - Playback
of the score
4 - Music
composition and arrangement
5 - Your
advantages - Why choosing Pizzicato?
User Manual and
Tutorials
 The detailed and
progressive tutorials help you to use the software.
- Display the
on-screen contextual help with a single key.
- The
detailed music tutorial helps you to understand music
notation or review music theory.
Music Notation
Even if
Pizzicato Composition Pro does not handle page layout and
printing of scores, it provides you several tools to work your
music composition on the basis of standard music notation.
You can export
your composition as a MIDI file, an audio (wave) file or as a
musicXML file, for instance to burn a CD or prepare the page
layout and printing of the score with a notation software like
Finale, Sibelius or Notion.
Entering Music
 You can enter the
music with combination's of mouse clicks, tool palettes,
keystrokes, the virtual piano keyboard, the guitar fret
board window, or directly through a MIDI keyboard, step
by step or in real time.
- The music
notation is automatically spaced correctly. You can then
zoom in and adjust any aspect of the music notation at
any time.
- You can add
accidentals, tuplets, chords as well as many other
standard or custom symbols and hear their influence on
the playback of the notes.
- Select
measures and use the copy/paste function, for instance to
duplicate measures or to transpose a melody without the
need to rewrite it manually.
- You can use
and manipulate up to 8 voices per measure.
 You can enter
music by playing the notes in real time at your tempo, on
a music keyboard connected through a MIDI interface (for
instance MIDI/USB interface).
- Pizzicato
displays the score and you can make any correction you
want and split the left and right hands on two staves.
- You can
edit the notes graphically as on a piano roll editor.
Music notation is adapted accordingly on the staff.
- Enter the
notes with the help of a guitar fret board window,
showing the name of the notes.
Fast entry of
notes and chords
- Using this
entry mode, you can select the rhythmic value of a note
just by moving the mouse to the right for longer duration
or to the left for shorter duration.
- You can
encode simple music with only the mouse. There is no need
to select tools on a palette or to use the keyboard.
- A similar
mode is used to enter the notes of an existing chord
progression, on one or more staves. A simple but powerful
note entry mode to translate chord symbols into real
notes.
Clef, key and
time signatures
- You can use
all clefs (G, F, C, percussion), standard or transposed
(8). Change the clef anywhere in the score.
- Select the
key signature (number of flats or sharps at the beginning
of the staff) and change it anywhere in the score.
- You can
transpose the score from one tone to another, just by
changing the key signature or by selecting an interval.
- Specify the
number of beats of the measure with the time signature
(4/4, 3/4, 6/8,...) and change the time signature
anywhere in the score.
- Create
composite time signatures (3+4/8), advanced key
signatures (mixing flats and sharps), free measures (with
no time signature), multi-measure rests, and customize
the measure appearance and content.
Chords
- Add chord
symbols and convert them automatically to notes on the
staff.
- Use the
chord progression window to enter or edit the chords
easily.
Other notation
features
- You can
enter the music with the mouse on a tablature or TAB
staff or on a standard staff. You can display both staff
and TAB or tablature and Pizzicato can convert from one
to the other.
- A
customized library of 240 fretted instruments is
available and you can ask Pizzicato to design a chord
diagram library with specific features like the position
on the fret board or the number of strings used.
- A full
library of chord diagrams is available, and you can add
your own to complete the library.
- A set of
specific symbols for the guitar may be added to the score
and they will affect the performance of the playback.
- Pizzicato
provides all the tools needed for drum notation.
Note heads, staves with 1 to 16 lines, the percussion
clef and MIDI mapping of instruments are combined to
create nice looking drum parts.
- Pizzicato
will import MIDI files and can split the individual drum
instruments so that you can easily edit the parts.
- You can add
custom symbols to the palettes and define their graphic
aspect as well as their sound effects on the playback.
- A special
copy/paste function helps you to merge staves together or
to split apart an existing staff.
- Assign
colors to notes, based on the note names, the pitches, or
individually.
Audio to Midi to
Score conversion
Pizzicato can now convert an audio
file (WAV) into a score. Play a melody on a flute,
guitar, piano,... through a microphone and
Pizzicato can help you to transcribe it into music
notation.
- The
Audio/Midi/Score window helps you to adjust the
conversion at each step and offers you several features,
like for instance:
Adjusting the start of audio notes
Delete, edit and add notes manually
Adjust the measure and beat positions
Work on several voices and staves,
based on different colors
Import a MIDI file or record freely in
MIDI, without the metronome, and convert it to a nice
sheet music by setting the measures and beats
intuitively
Record in real time the starts of
measures and intermediate beats, by clicking with the
mouse
Listen at any time to the audio and/or
score version of the music
Record an audio file in real time with
a microphone
Playback of the
score
Playing the score
- While
entering or editing the notes, you can hear them.
- You can
play the full score or any part of it, starting at any
measure. You can even play a section in a loop and still
continue to edit the score while Pizzicato is playing it.
 You can watch the notes colored
as they are played.
- The
playback takes into account the tempo, accents, nuances,
and special effects.
- Select the
sound you want for each staff of the score.
- Add sound
effects by drawing a curve in the effects view, for
instance to add the precise shape of a glissando or a
crescendo.
- If you have
a MIDI synthesizer, you can connect it to the computer
through a USB/MIDI interface and Pizzicato can play the
score by using the sounds of your synthesizer.
- You can use
up to 16 MIDI input/output ports.
- Select the
sounds assigned to instruments on the staves by using the
standard GM/GS/XG lists of sounds or the sound lists of
about 100 standard synthesizers. Customize the list of
sounds for your synthesizer.
The global view
- This view
is designed to provide you with the most advanced editing
tools of Pizzicato, all in one window, for your
convenience.
- You can
edit the music notation directly, edit the notes
graphically as on a piano roll, you can draw effect
curves to create a customized crescendo and have access
to most controllers and tools.
- You can
synchronize audio tracks, select virtual instruments and
edit the chord progression and associated scales.
- You can
select the staves to display and for each one you can
choose the editor(s) you need (notation, graphic,
effects,...).
- A set of 10
memories can be used to store different configurations
and switch between them as you work on different parts of
your composition.
Audio tracks
- You can add
one or more audio tracks and synchronize them with the
score.
- You can
record audio tracks to add an acoustic instrument, voices
or sound effects.
- With the
audio editor window, you can directly edit audio tracks.
Operations like copy, paste, mix, echo, fade in &
out, insert, remove, time inversion, spectral analysis
and synthesis, and many others are available to edit the
sound itself.
Create your own
sounds
- With
Pizzicato, you can also express your creativity and
imagination by creating new sounds to play your music.
- You can
construct new sounds with a modular synthesizer, by
assembling building blocks.
- Drag and
drop the sounds directly into the score and hear the
resulting playback.
Quality sound
library
- Pizzicato
includes a licensed version of the PapelmediaTM Sound
Library, with 1.2 GB of audio samples for a realistic
sound rendering of your music. This library is not
included with the demo version, but you can listen to mp3
samples made from that library at www.papelmedia.de/english/mp3.htm
- You can
assign these sounds to any staff or measure of your
composition.
- You can
also import samples from the Internet as SoundFont files.
You can modify them and use them in your music
composition.
File exchanges
- You can
create a standard MIDI file from any Pizzicato score and
import MIDI files from the Internet or from any other
music software and edit or print the score.
- You can
also import and export MusicXML files to exchange music
scores with other music software.
- Pizzicato
offers you many tools not available anywhere else. Using
these file formats to exchange information, you can use
Pizzicato as a companion tool to many other music
programs.
- You can
create an audio WAV file from any Pizzicato score, using
the full quality of the integrated library or imported
SoundFont samples. You can create an audio file for the
full composition and also a separate audio file for each
instrument.
- You can use
these audio files to create a CD with your music
compositions.
Music Composition
and Arrangement
Composing music
consists of finding an idea and structuring this idea into a full
music composition.
Pizzicato gives
you a series of tools to find an idea and to develop this idea.
It DOES NOT compose for you! You are the composer.
These tools help
you explore musical possibilities with unmatched ease.
At every step of
a music composition, you must make choices that will finally
produce a unique composition.
With Pizzicato,
you make these choices with various practical tools that help you
to sort out the possibilities by listening.
Your choice is
made according to your personal taste and to the atmosphere or
the feelings you want your music to express.
These tools form
an intuitive composition environment.
The musical
desktop
- Pizzicato
offers you a musical desktop on which you can easily and
efficiently organize a music composition.
- Drag your
preferred instruments directly into the score, including
percussion instruments.
- One of the
intuitive composition principles is to drag and drop
scores made out of one or several measures to construct a
full composition.
- Each score
may contain melodies, chords, accompaniments, instruments
or effects, any of which can be combined.
- Combine,
play and edit these music building blocks and create the
first structure of your musical composition.
- The result
may be edited or customized in the score notation editor
or in the graphic note editor.
Melody - How can
you find a melody?
- By playing
an instrument or singing, you can find a melody that may
become the starting point of your composition.
- The
Pizzicato libraries provide you with numerous note
sequences and rhythm sequences that you can try and
combine.
- The
possible combination's are countless and will give you
raw melodic material which you can adapt.
- Starting
with an existing melodic idea, you can work out several
variations, based on simple rules that you can control,
again multiplying the possible choices.
Harmony to melody
- With an
existing chord progression, you can intuitively design a
melody.
- Pizzicato
can display the score so that the notes being part of the
current chord are displayed in green, the notes of
the associated scale are displayed in orange, and the other
notes are displayed in red.
- With this
system, green notes are the
strongest notes for building the melody, orange
notes may often be used as passage notes and red notes should be
avoided, except for rapid chromatic passages.
- It becomes
easy to design a melody on a chord accompaniment, because
the note colors help you to select the best notes.
- You can
test and try many possibilities by moving the notes or
changing the chords and seeing the note colors being
adapted.
Music vectors
- You can
intuitively draw the shape of a melody on the staff and
Pizzicato will transform it into a melody that matches
that shape and the existing chords and scales.
- Similarly,
you can click to cut or lengthen the note durations and
structure the rhythm of the melodic line.
Harmony - How do
you find chords?
- Pizzicato
has thousands of prepared chord progressions that you can
use and adapt according to your personal taste.
- Navigate
inside several hundreds of harmonic spaces available to
you in the Pizzicato music libraries and create chord
progressions intuitively.
- Harmonic
spaces consist of chords that can be sequenced
harmoniously.
- Listen to
your composition while selecting chords and hear your
music being adapted to fit the chords you select.
- Create your
own customized harmonic spaces, based on scales, degrees,
chords and possible transitions.
- You can
also create a harmonic space based on one or more files
containing chords, so as to be able to compose a chord
progression "in the style of...".
Finding chords
adapted to a melody
- If you have
a melody, Pizzicato offers you a chord analysis to find
possible chords that can match that melody.
- As there
are often many possibilities, a multiple choice is
suggested for each chord, and you can select the one you
prefer by listening.
- This
function also provides a way to deduce the chords symbols
from an existing score.
Accompaniment
- Use the
many individual instrumental measures found in the
Pizzicato music libraries. Combine them in a few clicks
into your composition and hear the resulting
accompaniment, including drums.
- Without
being an expert, you can easily create and edit a drum
pattern. You can use the standard notation or the visual
piano roll editor. Pizzicato can play the pattern in a
loop while you edit it, so you can intuitively modify it
until you like it.
- Pizzicato
also provides prepared styles and variations that you can
drag in the score and combine into your composition.
- You can
also import style files from the Internet, with the
Yamaha style format (.sty extension) or extract a style
from a MIDI file and use it in your composition.
The score
arranger
- This
function will adapt a musical structure to match the
harmony (chord progression) of your music.
- By
designing a simple structure of one measure, Pizzicato
will adapt it to the harmony of your composition.
- The
arranger works directly on the score. You can switch
between the original and arranged versions.
- You can
customize the rules of the arranger.
- When you
find a melody, you can do a chord analysis and add
prepared structures like a string quartet or add
secondary voices with rhythmic preferences. Pizzicato
will arrange the score to match the chords.
Your Advantages -
Why Choosing Pizzicato?
- Whether you
are a beginner or professional musician, Pizzicato offers
you an easy and user-friendly approach
to creating music with a computer.
- The music
course and software tutorials do not require any music or
computer knowledge. They are surprisingly simple to read
and apply. It contains a full music theory course, with
many examples that combine with the discovery of the
tools to enter music. You can then directly apply what
you learn in practice. With it, you will be able to
understand music notation.
- The step by
step tutorials show you how to write a score, with many
examples. You learn how to use each tool so as to be
efficient and save time.
- Pizzicato
offers free and unlimited technical support
through the Internet or email for any question you may
have while installing or using Pizzicato.
- You can
always email technical support from the editor of the
software. This guarantees clear, efficient and customized
answers within 24 hours during business days.
- A user forum,
a database of frequently asked questions (FAQ)
as well as many tutorial videos are also
available through the Internet site 24/7.
- When you
buy Pizzicato, you are entitled to receive two
free major upgrades of the software, by
download.
Get
Pizzicato Composition Pro today
and enjoy its features
for your musical activities!
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