Maestro Notation

With Maestro Notation any musician can create great looking music without breaking their budget. With the same powerful features as our top level Maestro Composer product you can write, edit, print, share, and publish professional looking music that looks as good as it sounds. Maestro Notation provides you with pro level features at a reasonable price.

If you require more advanced editing features such as being able to adjust individual MIDI note velocities, exporting music to WAV or MP3 format, or if you want to be able to edit your music in a sequencer (piano roll) format please consider our flagship music notation program, Maestro Composer.

Here are just a few of the great features you will get with Maestro Notation:

Flexible Input Options
With nothing more than the computer keyboard musicians can speed through an entire composition by using Maestro Notation’s Quick Input feature or use a mouse along with a variety of other note entry methods such as step time and real time note entry with a MIDI keyboard. Drag and drop articulations, dynamics, tempo markings, and more directly into the score. Easily attach these markings to any note or measure with a single mouse click or with the press of a button on the keyboard. When you are happy with your changes you can listen to an accurate reproduction of the music complete with all articulations over your speakers or headphones.

Easy To Use Arranging Tools
Create your music in clean, crisp notation using flexible templates, multiple articulations, and dynamics to satisfy almost any composition’s requirements while having access to an unlimited number of staves and measures in each score. You can choose from dozens of instruments and staff configurations as well as use predefined templates for many different ensembles. Adding special score markings like guitar fingering diagrams and tablature is as easy as pointing and clicking with the mouse.

Flexible Design and Layout Tools
With Maestro Notation you get access to the most powerful layout and page design tools on the market. All of the tools needed are visible in neatly organized pallets at the bottom of the screen so there is no need to go searching through menus to find what you need! Easy to use contextual right click options make it easy to edit various parts of the music without fumbling through menus. Quickly customize the beaming of barred notes (no beams, beam all, beam by time signature, or custom beaming style) while our design tools also allow you to place graphical images directly into the score, move those images around, and customize the look of the entire page to appear exactly the way you want it to. If needed, you can even use Maestro Notation’s ‘Copy as Picture’ feature to copy portions of the score and paste those images into other programs like MS Word and Photoshop.

Multiple Output Options
Once your composition is complete you can easily export or save the completed score as MusicXML, Karaoke, PDF, or as a graphic file (TIFF, BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, WMF) at resolutions of up to 1200 dpi. You can even publish ”live” scores to the Internet to share with publishers, students, and colleagues. Scores published to the Internet using Maestro Notation along with the free Maestro Online utility can be viewed in almost any web browser as well as transposed into other keys, printed to an attached printer, or played back over the computer’s speakers. You can quickly export files to MIDI to import into popular sequencing and sampling programs or use our handy part extraction tools which allow you to have different layouts for the full score as well as for each member of the ensemble.

A Detailed and User Friendly Help System
Our handy traditional help system also features a very intuitive contextual help system that follows your actions and provides suggestions on what to do next. A series of helpful online video tutorials and training videos are also available, and for the rare question that cannot be answered within the help system we also offer detailed user manuals, web based forums, and email support options.