NoteAbilityPro 2.319 review
DownloadNoteAbility Pro is a professional music notation package for the Macintosh OS-X operating system.
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NoteAbility Pro is a professional music notation package for the Macintosh OS-X operating system.
Developed by Dr. Keith Hamel at the University of British Columbia, it is easily the most sophisticated music notation software available on any platform. NoteAbility combines both musical intelligence and graphical flexibility in a direct and intuitive graphical user interface.
Notate anything from simple melodies to complex avant garde orchestral music, play the score on your MIDI synthesizer or using Quicktime Musical Instruments and print a publishable copy of your score on any OS-X compatible printer.
If you have been frustrated by the awkwardness and inflexibility of other notation programs, or by the time it takes to learn them, then you definitely should have a look at NoteAbility Pro.
Features:
Complete set of standard and extended music images (including graphical versions of most images that can be placed anywhere on the page).
A wide variety of entry methods including mouse, on-screen keyboard, MIDI step time, MIDI real time and QuickScrawl (gesture recognition).
No limits on score size, image size, number of staves, rhythmic complexity, chord complexity, beaming, tuplet groupings, etc.
On-screen inspector for modifying the attributes of images and altering the layout of your score.
Selection options include shift-selection and selection across multiple pages for efficient editing of your score.
Drag and drop TIFF or PDF graphics from a library of custom images.
Extensive import and export options.
Automatic part extraction.
Playback through MIDI and/or QuickTime.
Complete on-line help (HTML and PDF).
Unlimited number of pages per document
Unlimited page size (width and height)
User-specified margins
Up to 40 systems per page
Up to 40 staves per system
Up to 16 measures per system (expandable after setup)
Standard clefs (treble, alto, tenor, bass, soprano, treble-tenor, octave-bass, percussion)
Variable number of lines in staff (1 - 6)
Staff type (number of lines) may change at any location
Staff segments may be hidden at any location
Standard key signatures
All time signatures from 1/1 to 32/32 plus complex time signatures (eg. 1/4 + 3/8)
Standard and custom braces on each system (including nested braces)
Standard & custom barlines on each system
Staff labels (right or left justified in any font & font size)
Automatic addition of pages as needed
Document display from 25% to 1%
Adjustable page size
Limitations:
Registration screen at startup.
What's New:
Feathered Beams are now possible in NAPro. Feathered beams are beams which imply a rhythmic accelerando or ritardando within a beamed group. The interface for feathered beams is a new tab view in the Beam, Ties, Tremolo pane of the Music Images Panel and is named "Beam X". This interface allows you to add a feathered beam to an existing beam group. To create feathered beams, select the note at the beginning of the beam segment you want to alter, then choose the feather type and direction from the 6 radio buttons, then click on the Create Feathered Beams button. If you want to create more complex beaming groups, you may need to specify the beam segments using the Beams pane in the same pane. The example below shows 2 different beam structures and the possible results of adding feathered beams
It is now possible to add Begin Repeat barlines at the beginning of systems using the menu item "Add / Remove Begin Repeat" which is located in the Modify/Barlines menu and in the miniature menu located at the top-right corner of the Barline/Braces pane of the Music Images panel. The Begin Repeat barlines replicate the barline structure of the system and are located before the first beat of the measure. Normally, this feature is only needed when you want to add a repeat sign at the beginning of a system -- for other situations you can set the barline type of the previous measure to be a Begin Repeat barline type. The example below shows the beginning of a score without and with the Repeat Begin Barlines.
The Custom Setup panel now allows you to indicate staff labels for the first page of the score and abbreviated staff labels for all subsequent systems. There is also a setting to inset the left margin on the first page (to accommodate the longer staff labels), a check box to indicate whether or not you want to use abbreviated labels, and buttons which enable you to copy between the two lists of staff labels. =
Templates for scores are now available using a pull-down menu on the Document Setup panel. A large number of templates (in different categories) have been created and are stored in the /Library/Application Support/NoteAbilityTemplates folder. You can save your own templates into this location (using the Save Template button) and organize your own templates into folders.
Requirements:
any Macintosh computer capable of running the OS-X operating system. This includes all Macs with a G3, G4, or better processor.
Macintosh OS-X (version 10.2.0 or higher) installed on your hard drive or on a hard drive partition.
at least 128 MBytes of RAM
at least 100 Mbytes of free disk space.
any Mac OS-X compatible printer (using USB, Appletalk or on a network)
any Mac OS-X compatible USB Midi interface (optional).
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