Comparison of scorewriters
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| Name | Developer(s) | Latest stable release | License | Supported formats | Cost (USD United States dollar The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies.... ) |
WYSIWYG WYSIWYG WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product... Editor |
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| Crescendo | NCH Software NCH Software NCH Software is a software development company founded in 1993 in Canberra, Australia. The Denver office was started in April 2008 due to the large U.S. customer base... |
.97 | Proprietary | mxml | Windows | ||||
| Denemo Denemo Denemo is a free software graphical interface for music notation, mainly to GNU LilyPond, a program for engraving musical scores. Denemo has been under development since 1999. Using GTK+ 2.0, it works on Linux and Microsoft Windows.... |
Jeremiah Benham, Nils Gey, Richard Shann | 0.9.0 | GPL | denemo, xml, mxml | midi | pdf, ly, png | WYSIWYM WYSIWYM WYSIWYM is an acronym for What You See Is What You Mean, and refers to a paradigm for document editing... with real Notes |
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| Frescobaldi Frescobaldi (software) Frescobaldi is a computer program for creating and editing music notation. It is free software for the KDE Linux environment and is available under the GNU General Public License... |
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| GNU LilyPond GNU LilyPond GNU LilyPond is a computer program for music engraving. One of LilyPond's major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand.... |
Han-Wen Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen | 2.12.3 | GPL | ly | midi | pdf, ps, png | Cross-platform | ||
| Impro-Visor Impro-Visor Impro-Visor is an educational tool for creating and playing a lead sheet, with a particular orientation toward representing jazz solos.- Improvisation Advisor :... |
Bob Keller | 4.11 | GPL | ls | midi | ls | Linux, Mac, Windows | ||
| MuseScore MuseScore MuseScore is free and open source music notation software for Microsoft Windows, Mac and Linux. MuseScore is a WYSIWYG editor, complete with support for score playback and import–export of MusicXML and standard MIDI files... |
Werner Schweer | 1.1 | GPL v2 | mscz, mscx, xml, mxl, md, bww, ove, mgu, sgu, cap, kar | midi, wav, flac, ogg | pdf, png, ps, svg, ly | Linux, Mac, Windows | ||
| MusiXTeX MusiXTeX MusiXTeX is a suite of open source music engraving macros and fonts that allow music typesetting in TeX.-History:Macros for typesetting music in TeX first appeared in 1987 and were limited to one-staff systems.... |
Daniel Taupin, Ross Mitchell, Andreas Egler | 1.15 | GPL | dvi, ps, pdf | Linux, Mac, Windows | ||||
| Canorus | Reinhard Katzmann, Matevž Jekovec, Georg Rudolph | 0.7.R1002 | GPL | CanorusML, MusicXML | midi | pdf,ly | Linux | ||
| NoteEdit NoteEdit NoteEdit is a defunct music scorewriter for Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems.NoteEdit is written in C++, uses the Qt toolkit, and is integrated with KDE. Released under the GNU General Public License, NoteEdit is free software.... |
Jörg Anders | 2.8.1 | GPL | midi | Linux | ||||
| Rosegarden Rosegarden Rosegarden is a free software digital audio workstation program developed for Linux with ALSA and QT4. It acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool... |
Chris Cannam, Richard Bown, Guillaume Laurent | 10.02 | GPL | Linux | |||||
| TuxGuitar TuxGuitar TuxGuitar is a free, open source tablature editor, which includes basic features such as tablature editing, score editing, triplet support and the ability to import and export Guitar Pro gp3, gp4, and gp5 files. In addition, TuxGuitar can function as a basic MIDI editor using the tablature or staff... |
Julian Gabriel Casadesus | 1.2 | LGPL | tg, ly, xml | midi | Cross-platform | |||
| Power Tab Editor Power Tab Editor Power Tab Editor is a free tablature authoring tool created by Brad Larsen for Windows. It is used to create guitar, bass and ukulele tablature scores, among many others. The current version uses the *.ptb file format.... |
Brad Larsen | 1.0.0.175 | Proprietary | Windows | |||||
| Capella | Capella-software | 6.0 | Proprietary | cap, mxl | midi | bmp, jpeg, tiff, png, tga, pcx | Windows | ||
| Encore Encore (software) Encore is a scorewriter program for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh, originally created in the 1990s by the US company Passport. Presently Encore is distributed and developed by GVOX.MusicTime Deluxe is the 'essentials' version of Encore.- Ease of use :... |
GVOX GVOX Gvox is a music-software company best known for notation software. During its long and turbulent history, it developed and acquired ground-breaking products. Typically, these programs are designed by musicians for musicians.- History:... |
5.0.2 | Proprietary | enc, mus, mto, rhp, mxl | midi, mff, mts | Mac, Windows | |||
| Finale | MakeMusic | 2011 | Proprietary | mus, xml | midi, wav, mp3, aiff | jpeg, png, tiff, eps | Mac, Windows | ||
| Guitar Pro Guitar Pro Guitar Pro is a multitrack editor of guitar and bass tablature and musical scores, possessing a built-in MIDI-editor, a plotter of chords, a player, a metronome and other tools for guitarists and musicians... |
Arobas Music | 6.0 | Proprietary | gpx, gp3, gp4, gp5, gtp, ascii, mxl | midi, wav | png, pdf | Linux, Mac, Windows | ||
| Igor Engraver Igor Engraver Igor Engraver is a music notation program, published by the Swedish company NoteHeads, and was produced for the Macintosh and Windows operating systems... |
NoteHeads | 1.7 | Proprietary | Mac, Windows | |||||
| Mozart | David Webber | 11 | Proprietary | mz, xml MusicXML MusicXML is an open, XML-based music notation file format.It was developed by Recordare LLC, deriving several key concepts from existing academic formats . It is designed for the interchange of scores, particularly between different scorewriters.Version 1.0 was released in January 2004... |
midi | bmp, emf, gif, jpg, pbm, png | Windows | ||
| Mus2 Mus2 Mus2 is a music application for the notation of microtonal works and, specifically, Turkish maqam music. Unlike most other scorewriters, Mus2 allows the user to work in almost any tuning system with customizable accidentals and play back the score with accurate intonation... |
Utku Uzmen (Data-Soft Ltd.) | 1.1 | Proprietary | mus2 | AIFF, MIDI, Wave | BMP, JPEG, PDF, PNG, SVG | Mac, Windows | ||
| MusEdit Musedit MusEdit is a scorewriter program for Microsoft Windows, developed by Doug Rogers / Yowza software and first launched in 1997. The current version was released in April 2008.- Features :... |
Doug Rogers, Yowza Software | 4.0.2 | Proprietary | Windows | |||||
| MusiCAD MusiCAD MusiCAD is a scorewriter program originally designed for folk music featuring irregular meter . It can automatically generate accompaniment voices from chord symbols... |
Musys Software | 3.1 | Proprietary | ascii | midi | Windows | |||
| Notion Notion (software) NOTION is a computer software program for music composition and performance created by NOTION Music, a company located in Greensboro, North Carolina. Created for use on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS, NOTION's sample library for playback was recorded at Abbey Road by the London Symphony Orchestra... |
NOTION Music | 3.0 | Proprietary | mxl, xml | midi, wav | Mac, Windows | |||
| NoteWorthy Composer NoteWorthy Composer NoteWorthy Composer is a scorewriter application made by .NoteWorthy Composer is a graphical score editor for Microsoft Windows computers , and is also reported to work on PCs under Linux with Wine. Versions 1 of NWC was released in October 1994, and Version 2 in September 2008... |
NoteWorthy Software | 2.1 | Proprietary | nwc | midi | Windows | |||
| Overture Overture (software) Overture is a music scorewriter program for Windows and Macintosh platforms, written by Don Williams, the author of the popular Encore scorewriter program. Visually, the Overture interface bears much resemblance to the Encore interface.... |
Geniesoft | 4.1.0 | Proprietary | ove | midi | Mac, Windows | |||
| Sibelius | Sibelius Software | 7.0 | Proprietary | sib, xml | midi | Mac, Windows, RISC OS RISC OS RISC OS is a computer operating system originally developed by Acorn Computers Ltd in Cambridge, England for their range of desktop computers, based on their own ARM architecture. First released in 1987, under the name Arthur, the subsequent iteration was renamed as in 1988... |
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| SmartScore Pro SmartScore SmartScore is a music OCR and scorewriter program, developed, published and distributed by Musitek Corporation based in Ojai, California, . As of March 2010, there are over 35,000 registered users of Musitek software worldwide.... |
Musitek Corporation | 10.2.6 | Proprietary | mxl | midi | Mac, Windows | |||
| Name | Developer(s) | Latest stable release | License | Supported formats | Cost (USD United States dollar The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies.... ) |
WYSIWYG WYSIWYG WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product... Editor |
Operating System Support | ||
| Score support | Sound support | Print support | |||||||
See also
- List of MIDI editors and sequencers
- List of guitar tablature software