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Manufacturer: GENIESOFT Platform: Hybrid Includes both a Mac and Windows version of the program.

Clearance on Scorewriter 1.0 Lab Pack 5 while supplies last! All sales final, no returns. (Can be upgraded to Scorewriter 4.)  
 
(Note: features below are for Version 2.0)  
 
Features:  
- Easy to install and set up  
- Create piano, band, orchestral, choral, and lead sheet notation  
- Print arrangements of up to 16 instruments  
- Comes with fun music and templates to get started  
- Notating your music has never been easier  
 
GenieSoft Score Writer is the affordable notation software that makes recording, editing, arranging and printing your music easy, fast and enjoyable. You can quickly enter notes on-screen with your mouse or computer keyboard, or record a MIDI performance. Score Writer’s intuitive interface puts powerful editing tools and symbol palettes at your fingertips, so you spend time composing music instead of searching through menus. For band and small orchestral arrangements, lead sheets, choral parts or even simple notation examples, there’s no easier way to create professional notation than Score Writer.  
 
Quality page layout:  
The score window in Score Writer allows you to notate your music quickly and easily. You control all notation elements with the mouse or computer keyboard. Extensive text handling functions make it easy to add or edit lyrics, page text, measure text and rehearsal marks. Move staves on the page with a click of the mouse -- even resize the music on the page.  
 
Powerful MIDI features:  
Score Writer has the MIDI recording capabilities you’ve always wanted in a notation program. It reads and writes standard MIDI files, provides tape deck-style transport controls, as well as multiple recording options. Score Writer offers complete MIDI playback of dynamics markings, repeats and endings. You can also edit your recorded MIDI performance on-screen, using the score window.  
 
Extensive Notation Features:  
Score Writer has extensive notation symbols including slurs, ties, grace notes, cue notes, tuplets, accents marks, ornaments, ottava, lift, fall off, glissando up/down, and dynamics markings. Notating drum parts has never been easier. You can play your drum sounds on a MIDI instrument and Score Writer will place the notes with percussion noteheads onto a five line percussion staff. It even features an Expression palette so you can enter tempo and other changes easily.  
 
Overture Features:  
Staff/Score  
- Easy setup with Setup dialog  
- 256 staves with 8 voices per stave  
- 64 staves per system, unlimited number of systems  
- 4 voices per stave, each assignable to a MIDI device  
- Automatic page tiling for printout  
- 32,768 measures per score  
- Scrolling score window during playback  
- 34" x 44" maximum page size  
 
View/Edit Windows  
- WYSISWYG Page layout—what you see and edit is what you get  
- Zoom score from 10% - 200%  
 
Staff Types/Clefs  
- G (treble clef) G (8va) G (8vb)  
- F (bass clef) F (8vb)  
- C (movable-tenor, alto, soprano, mezzo soprano clefs)  
- Percussion with staff line, notehead and MIDI pitch mapping  
 
Meters/Keys  
- Multiple meters  
- Different meters between staves are supported graphically  
 
Noteheads  
- Supports mst note marks and ornaments  
- Intelligent placement of noteheads can be manually adjusted  
- Accidentals can be dragged anywhere  
- Fingering can be attached to notes  
 
Rhythmic  
- 128th note to triple dotted whole notes  
- Tuplets from 1 - 99 over 1 - 99  
- Automatic beaming  
- Adjustable beam height and angles  
- Nested repeats and endings with MIDI playback  
 
Input Methods  
- Computer mouse  
- Computer keyboard  
- MIDI controller/keyboard real time and step time  
- Import standard MIDI file, quantize each track differently  
- Import Encore and MusicTime files.  
- Paste any .PICT into score (Mac Only)  
 
Chords  
- Automatic chord recognition in step entry (MIDI) mode  
- Mouse click and computer keyboard entry of chords  
- Chords transpose  
 
Guitar Frames  
- Mouse click entry of chords  
- Chord can be altered after they are entered  
 
Text  
- Lyrics--4 verses for each voice--mass entry, paste from word processor  
- Rehearsal marks  
- Page text including footer, header, titling with page numbers, date and time  
- Measure and system text  
 
Preferences  
- MIDI playback: as recorded (MIDI data), as written or in swing  
- Templates using PC read only files and Macintoh System 7 stationery  
 
MIDI  
- Records all MIDI events, including notes, controllers, aftertouch, pitch bend, key velocity, etc.  
- OMS compatible--supports multiport interfaces including MIDI Time Piece, Studio 4 and Studio 5LX  
- MIDI playback of all rests, dynamics, trills, repeats, tremolos, hairpins, some articulations  
- Assign MIDI values to dynamics (pppp to ffff), hairpins, and some articulations for playback  
- Tape deck style MIDI transport controls  
- 480 PPN (parts per quarter note) capture of MIDI  
 
Output  
- Any Macintosh compatible printer  
- Part extraction with auto transpose and multi-measure rests  
- Standard MIDI files  
 
Transposition  
- Chromatic  
- Diatonic  
- Enharmonic  
- Includes notes and chord symbols  
 
Editing  
- All elements (notes, stems, beams, accidentals, ornaments, fingerings, staves, clefs, barlines, all text including lyrics, chord symbols, dynamic markings) can be clicked and dragged or nudged with arrow keys  
- Option drag to copy is supported  
- Automatic recognition of elements, edit any item without switching tools  
- Copy/paste/merge/paste special for pasting only certain elements  
- Hide, show or scale any element 25 - 250%  
- Automatic or manual voicing and transcription, including re-transcribe  
- Step entry includes notes, rests, rhythmic slashes and chord symbols.

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System Requirements for SCORE WRITER 1.0 LAB PACK 5

PC	Mac
- Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP   - Pentium 100 MHz, 128Mb application RAM   - Windows-compatible Printer   - Windows-compatible MIDI interface required for MIDI recording   - CD-ROM drive	Macintosh OS 8.5 or greater   Macintosh 68020 or Power Macintosh Native   128Mb application RAM   4MB Hard disk space   Macintosh-compatible MIDI interface and OMS required for MIDI recording   CD-ROM drive