If you’re more comfortable with a guitar or keyboard than the intricacies of musical notation, Sibelius First is for you. It’s the easy way to create scores that you can print, share, post online, or even sell. Sibelius First features “can’t mess-up” templates and plug-ins to help you create lead sheets, guitar tab and complete scores. Simply play your MIDI keyboard or MIDI guitar (or use your computer mouse and keyboard) and First turns your music into notes and chord symbols. Just add lyrics – and your name. The world is waiting.
Price: $99.00 Buy now!
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Notion Music Expanded Percussion I adds the following instruments: castanets, cowbells, cuckoo, drum sticks, maracas, power toms, ratchet, roto-toms, shakers, sleigh bells, temple blocks and woodblock.
Price: $19.95 Buy now!
Expanded Strings II – This kit expands on the new sounds and techniques introduced in Expanded Strings I for violin, viola, cello and bass sections. The new sounds include col legno, sul ponticello, bartok pizzicato, minor third tremolando, major third tremolando, perfect fourth tremolando, open string, and natural and artificial harmonics.
Price: $59.95 Buy now!
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The perfect tool for the pianist, both professional and student. Audition piano arrangements within seconds. Practice along; mute one hand while playing back the other at various tempos. Transpose and print score in new keys. Save scores to Music XML files. PDF recognition.
Price: $64.95 Buy now!
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G7 is the ultimate software for writing songs and playing better guitar. With G7, you can write tab, chords, lyrics and notation, learn songs and riffs with the on-screen fretboard – and even publish your music on the Internet. G7 is so easy to use that you can capture your ideas almost as fast as they come to you – you won’t ever forget that chord progression or lick again! G7 contains a complete interactive guide to guitars, playing techniques and musical styles, with many studio-quality recordings and tab/notation examples you can use to create your own riffs and songs.
Price: $79.95 Buy now!
User Reviews:
Feature:
A bit awkward at first at getting the notes and the beat to time out right and not “auto-adjust” to a different melody than you were attempting to construct, BUT still the best I have used at score assembly.
Quality:
Overall pretty good notation and MIDI package
Value:
Not bad functionality for the price, but you are not going to get easy support.
Desirability:
Great fretboard support! Dead sexy..
Sound:
Sound is good, but that is not really the point with this package.
Ease of Use:
Beautiful graphics and notation rendering. A bit awkward to coordinate the timing and notation.
Support:
Never available. SO paranoid about pirated copies that legitimate users have to suffer. Can’t get em on the phone, can’t re-register very easily if you have a hard drive crash, or need to get a new computer.
Overall:
SUPPORT SUPPORT SUPPORT….!!!!!!!!!! Everyone claims to have it. Few really do. Those darn pesky customers, stealing all our software and bugging us on the phone. They should just pay us money and then GO AWAY!!!!!!!!!!
Guitar Pro 5.0 is a complete workshop for guitarists at an affordable price. Guitar Pro is known as the most powerful and intuitive tablature editor on the market. New advanced notation features add drum notation, vocal notation and tablature support for any stringed instruments with four to seven strings! You can create complete scores for a band in minutes.
Price: $49.95 Buy now!
Imagine the world’s fastest and most accurate music scanning technology. Now imagine a professional-grade scorewriter that is just as friendly as it is powerful. One with enough intelligence built in that no advanced degree is requred to use it. Then think of all the possible ways you’d like to experience your printed music… push-button scanning, realistic playback, key/clef transposition, part extraction, page reformattting, auto-drum grooves, karaoke, CD burning, integrated MIDI visualization and file conversion including support for PDF, Finale and MusicXML formats. Welcome to SmartScore X.
Price: $289.95 Buy now!
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Highly accurate recognition of contrapuntal voices make Guitar Edition a powerful and useful tool for any classical guitarist. Assign a unique sound to each voice; bass guitar to the thumb, French horn for the middle finger and pizzicato string for the melody line. Mute or solo any contrapuntal voice to reveal inner voicings. Practice along at slow speeds without affecting pitch.
Price: $59.95 Buy now!
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The Musitek SmartScore Songbook Edition Software allows you to scan multiple pages of printed sheet music and see it reconstructed onscreen in seconds, ready for playback, transposition or part extraction. Re-format, reprint and export finished scores to other music programs via MusicXML or MIDI. An elegant interface includes split screen or continuous horizontal viewing of both the original scan (in yellow) and the editable SmartScore window (in white).
Price: $149.95 Buy now!
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Finally there is guitar software as creative as you are. Progression features thousands of real electric and acoustic guitar samples from Neil Zaza, and electric bass and drums samples from Grammy Award winners Victor Wooten and Roy “FutureMan” Wooten.
Price: $99.00 Buy now!
User Reviews:
Feature:
features are very thorough for a $100 program!
Quality:
support is solid, but wish it came with more documented materials
Value:
for $100 this is a must-have
Desirability:
after you’ve been introduced to the program you’ll want it…
Sound:
Sounds are very realistic
Ease of Use:
great shortcuts, easy note entry, and a darn sexy UI
Support:
support is top notch!