Pizzicato

Program description

Pizzicato is a music notation and composition software based on the score and MIDI. Are you a beginner ? Pizzicato includes a free music course. Are you a professional ? Pizzicato offers you a lot of tools and lets you to create yours.

Just as you use a word processor to write your mail, you can use Pizzicato to write your notes, your music on paper with a professional quality. At home.

Before going further: remove any idea related to music being difficult or composition being impossible to learn without 10 years of study, because
if you follow it step by step, the Pizzicato music course will show you exactly the opposite!

Pizzicato Light is suited to learn music and/or make your first steps in computer assisted music
Pizzicato Beginner and Professional are suited to write, print, compose and listen to your music scores.

You decide, Pizzicato draws!

Features

- Documentation and training : progressive lessons on computer basics, music course suited to people with no musical background at all, practical training to play the music keyboard
- Notes encoding :recorder window with metronome and tempo value, the added or modified notes are played as an immediate feedback, up to 8 voices per staff, copy/paste measures, triplets and tuplets, custom layout of notes inside a measure, work and view the score using a graphic zoom (Pizzicato Beginner and Professional), grace notes and various note heads (Professional)
- Structure of the score : page numbers, 8 (Pizzicato Light)/16 (Beginner)/unlimited (Professional) number of instruments per system, unlimited size of the score/custom page layout/measure numbers (Beginner and Professional), printing in all sizes (zoom for printer)/orchestral score optimization/reduced staff size and multi-document/multi-score (Professional)
- Clefs, keys signatures and time signatures : treble clef and Bass clef/keys signatures from 7b to 7#, time signature selection,
other clefs (C, percussion...)/arbitrary key signatures, different key signature for each staff (transposing instruments) or composite time signatures (3+4 /4, 6+2 /8...)/flexibility to display or hide the time and key signatures/creating free measures, cut measures (Pizzicato Professional)
- Chords, text, lyrics : chord symbols/transcription of chords into notes/up to 8 lines of lyrics(each syllable is automatically aligned under the notes), lyrics fast encoding window (Pizzicato Beginner and professional), chord analysis and chord searching on a melody/chord progression fast encoding window (Professional)
- MIDI effects and handling - Performance of the score : MIDI Sequencer/GM (General MIDI) synthesizer handling/export MIDI files, Import MIDI files (Pizzicato Beginner and Pro), 1 or 4 (Professional) MIDI input(s)/output(s), realistic performance of symbols (nuances, tempo, accents, special effects...)/possibility to create your own graphic and MIDI symbols/ 95 drivers covering most synthesizers of the market, with all sound banks (Professional)
- Others : tool palettes with a large selection of graphic symbols, opy pictures of measures to your text processor (Beginner and Professional), tools for composition assistance/ 20 accompaniment styles/ parts extraction from a conductor score (Professional)