eMedia MagicScore Maestro

eMedia MagicScore Maestro

MagicScore Maestro is the fastest way to compose music and create print-ready music notation. Enter musical notes quickly using optimized tools or by playing your USB-MIDI keyboard or controller. Easily edit your score with powerful music notation tools that let you place individual notes, brackets, bar lines, clefs, articulations, and other symbols precisely where you want them. Transpose entire scores or individual instrument parts with just a few clicks. Insert comments, links, and other elements throughout your score. MagicScore Maestro includes standard music notation symbols plus drum/percussion notation, guitar notation (tablature), and chord diagrams.

Listen to instrument parts and arrangements with MIDI instrument sounds to help you write for everything from solo piano to full orchestra. You can also import .sf2 instruments! Mix the score down to an MP3 and share it with others. Output your compositions as clean, easy-to-read music notation files for creating engraver quality prints or save them in popular formats for publishing to the web or other applications. MagicScore Maestro is an incredible value in music notation software, giving you features found in notation software costing 3 to 4 times more!

Features include:

• Note input via Note/Symbol Tool Palette, virtual piano or guitar, Chord Builder, or a MIDI device.
• Guitar notation with tablature and chord diagrams.
• Adding graphical elements (lines, rectangles, pictures, etc.) to music notation.
• Editing individual or groups of notes and markings
• Inserting comments, links, and other elements throughout the score.
• Full control of page layout including text orientation and symbol placement.
• Saving chord progressions as templates.
• An extensible list of musical terms.
• Drum notation with customizable MIDI drum map.
• Previewing/auditioning scores using the full range of your built-in MIDI instrument sounds and 3rd party Sound Fonts (sf2) instruments.
• Adjusting volume, balance, and effects for each track of an instrument’s score.
• Piano roll-style Playback Editor for editing and optimizing MIDI playback.
• MIDI effect control (Arpeggio, Gruppetto, Vorschlag, Trillare) – based on the staff’s symbols.
• Drag & Drop support.
• Printing and previewing scores or exporting them as PDF, BMP, JPG, GIF, TIFF, or WMF.
• Importing/exporting MIDI and MusicXML files, and export KAR (Karaoke format) files

Easy and Versatile Note Entry

Enter notes using Quick Input mode, the Chord Builder tool, or an extended tool palette of musical notes and symbols. You can also use a MIDI keyboard (or other MIDI controller) to easily record notes in either step or real time. Stuck on the bus without an instrument? Don’t let that stop you from writing. The notation software includes a virtual piano to let you input notes and rests. Guitar chord features include entering guitar chords from a user-extensible chord library and the ability for chord patterns to be saved as templates.

Powerful Music Notation Software Tools

Each individual element in a score can be edited and moved wherever the composer desires. The Notes and Symbols Palette makes it easy to the enter notes, clefs, keys, rests, tab, and all the symbols required to create professional music notation. To speed up note entry you can combine entering a note along with its style, semitone, microtone, tremolo, triplet, and other symbols in one stroke. There is even a microtonal editor that allows you to create music notation for pitches in microtonal steps. For ease of use, frequently used symbols can be maximized. Hot Keys are available to quickly switch between modes for adding different types of music notation symbols to your score, plus you can design and save your own library of notation symbols. Guitar notation includes symbol and playback support for bends, hammer-ons/pull-offs, vibrato and other techniques. Users can also add custom instruments and tunings. Also, it’s easy to switch between guitar tab notation and standard music notation views and to mix the two music notation styles in one document. Guitar tab and standard music notation are optionally synchronized.

Hear It As You Write It

MagicScore Maestro offers a full range of band and orchestral MIDI instrument sounds, so you can listen to your score as you create it. Also, you can import SoundFont files (SF2) to gain access to even more instrument sounds. Use the piano roll-style Playback Editor to fine-tune how notes are played via MIDI. Plus, a Drum Map Editor is included to simplify assigning notes to MIDI percussion sounds.

Publish Your Music for Print or the Web

Complete scores and/or individual parts can be printed out or exported as PDFs. Export pages as JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, or WMF for easy publishing in other applications. Use the “Copy as Picture” feature to select portions of the score and save as image files to share. You can also export individual parts or your entire composition in WAV or MP3 audio format to share the audio rendition of your work. MagicScore Maestro also exports and imports industry-standard MusicXML, standard MIDI files, and KAR (Karaoke format) files for exchange with other music software. Also, you can share your music via the internet using the MagicScore Music Portal and publish live playable, printable music scores on your Website using the free MagicScore Online plug-in.

Intuitive and Multifaceted Help System

MagicScore Maestro goes beyond standard help files with training videos, built-in tutorial lessons, and an extensive, intuitive contextual help system that monitors your actions and provides helpful suggestions.

System requirements

Windows®:

• Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 10
• 1 GHz CPU (2 Ghz or faster recommended)
• 1 GB RAM (2 GB or more recommended)
• 60 MB hard drive space (120 MB or more recommended)
• CD-ROM or Download