Personal Composer is a powerful music notation, MIDI sequencing, and publishing program which provides spectacular usability with professional results. Whether you are a composer, performer, arranger, educator, or multimedia enthusiast, Personal Composer offers a composition environment which is so intuitive it frees you to concentrate on your music! Personal Composer is available in three levels: 8-staves, 16-staves, and 44-staves. Some advanced features (such as part extraction) are only available in the 16 and 44-stave versions (see feature list below). We have used Personal Composer extensively here at Melody's for our Afghan Press publications and we highly recommend it.
- Multiple files can be open, limited only by available RAM in the 44-stave version, restricted in other versions
- 16 levels of Undo and Redo with up to 9 backup files
- Import and export MIDI files
- Use on-screen rulers and non-printing guide lines to position score elements
- Choose from pre-designed score templates or design your own
- Customizable tool bars with buttons for many functions
- Tooltips and button text identify tools
- Text toolbar permits immediate changing of style or font
- Select rhythmic values with the keyboard or with the mouse
- Enter pitches and position them with the keyboard or with the mouse
- Notate as you play a MIDI instrument, with a program-supplied metronome
- Record on one staff while playing back others
- Optionally enter as many notes in a measure as you wish, regardless of time signature
- Page and measure numbering may be restarted anywhere (16 and 44-stave versions)
- Standard or user-defined staff sizes
- Choose from 15 clefs (all C clefs supported)
- Place a new clef at the start or within any measure
- Easily set up key and time signatures
- Create and position titles, copyright notices and other text
- Reposition any object or text anywhere on the page simply by dragging it
- Up to four lines of lyrics, typed directly onto the score
- TAB clef auto-adjusts to staff height
- Select and place chord names and/or chord frames easily
- Transposes chord names and fret symbols
- Allows dotted notes in tuplets
- Apply articulations with automatic positioning and stem direction sensitivity
- Adjust ties, slurs, crescendos, diminuendos, the positions of beats in a measure, and the positions of notes without moving the beats
- Duration of a note or rest can be halved or doubled by pressing a single key
- Imports graphics that print with the music, imports NIFF files (44-stave version)
- Extract one or more staves at once (16 and 44-stave versions)
- Automatic multimeasure rests in extracted parts
- Supports cross-staff notes and beaming, beam width, and rests within beam groups
- Play your score through a MIDI instrument, sound module, or sound card
- Dynamics, octave marks, repeats and tempo marks control MIDI playback
- A timer to clock recording and playback
- Mixer has the same number of faders as staves in music with a minimum of 8
- Control the layout of individual staff systems and page margins
Recommended system requirements:
80486 CPU or better, running Windows 95 or later, 5MB hard drive space, 32MB RAM, Windows-compatible printer
OPTIONAL: MIDI interface and synthesizer or multimedia sound card for playback, MIDI interface and MIDI instrument for recording
