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 provides you with a lot of tools and allows 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!

Here are some key features of "Pizzicato":

· Documentation and training : practical training to play the music keyboard
· Notes encoding : work and view the score using a graphic zoom, grace notes and various note heads
· Structure of the score : unlimited number of instruments per system, orchestral score optimization, reduced staff size
· Clefs, keys signatures and time signatures : all clefs(percussion...), arbitrary key signatures, hide the time and key signatures, creating free measures
· Chords, text, lyrics : lyrics fast encoding window, chord analysis and chord searching on a melody,
· MIDI effects : MIDI Sequencer/GM, synthesizer handling, export/import MIDI files, 4 MIDI inputs/outputs, realistic performance of symbols, possibility to create your own graphic and MIDI symbols, 95 drivers covering most synthesizers of the market, with all sound banks
· Others : tool palettes with a large selection of graphic symbols, copy pictures of measures to your text processor, tools for composition assistance, 20 accompaniment styles, parts extraction from a conductor score, etc.

Limitations:

· 30 days trial period.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· A modular software synthesizer is now included in Pizzicato. With it, you can create synthesized sounds, read samples and manipulate the sound material. You can create a sound from scratch or use the given examples.
· You can now directly import SoundFont sample files. Many such sounds can be found free of charge and free of rights by the thousands on the Internet. You can assign them to the staves of your score and use them in your composition. The final sound quality produced by Pizzicato becomes independent of the sound card and its synthesizer.
· Pizzicato includes a quality sound library to listen to your music scores. It is the Papelmedia library ( http://www.papelmedia.de/english/index.htm ), which is now a standard part of Pizzicato.
· You can create an audio WAV file from your score directly with Pizzicato, without the need to go through the complexities of sound cards and their sometimes bad quality synthesizers. The final audio file includes directly the high quality sounds from...