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Compare Music
Notation Software |
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Features |
Maestro 7 |
Maestro 6 |
Classic 6 |
School 6 |
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Enter notes with the help of mouse
and keyboard |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Enter notes with the help of virtual
piano |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Enter notes with the help of virtual
PC keyboard |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Enter notes with the help of virtual
guitar deck |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Chord arrangement |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Connection to all items of the score,
comments, links and other design items |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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The ability to cancel the operation
(Undo/Redo) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Drag&Drop support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Staff placement setup |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Note Duration, Symbol
size, Staff size control |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Measure and raw alignment setup to fit
the page (for the entire composition and separate system) note margin setup. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Align staves
in entire composition and separate pages |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Hide empty
staves |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Composition
scaling |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Score
print with preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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MIDI format read and record |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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MusicXML format read and record |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Autosave setup |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Settings for music information input |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Note names and key signature display
setup |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Dynamic and music effect settings |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Metronome |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Insert/overwrite
mode |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Gray inactive items mode (to mark
active voice) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Note heads with note names
display mode |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Transposition |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Volume, balance and effects control
for every track (score or instrument) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Input
support of several sections in one composition with the own selection of
scores |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Auto playback of velocity according to
dynamic symbols input |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Auto
calculation of effects (Arpeggio, Gruppetto, Vorschlag, Trillare) playback by
staff symbols. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Right and left
input and text display in the score |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Design items “Line”, “Rectangle”,
“Ellipse”, “Arc” “Segment” |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Design setup |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Work with the entire composition and
with its separate parts, the same for printing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Record from external MIDI device setup |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Drum input and playback |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Staff display in the form of
tablature |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Real time music record from external
MIDI device. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Image export to graphic formats |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Text alignment control (the text can
be placed at any angle) |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Manual velocity calculation according
to dynamic symbols input. |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Manual calculation of effects playback
(Arpeggio, Gruppetto, Vorschlag, Trillare) by staff symbols. |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Playback editor to change note
position and duration directly for playback |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Save chords templates for further use
in the program or external file |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Extensible list of music terms |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Enter chords with the help of virtual
guitar row. |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Select note display styles |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Save score image in PDF format |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Voice Note
editor |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Drum map tuning |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Guitar frames |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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User symbol templates with the ability
to edit the list |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Additional MIDI events editor |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Guitar templates with the ability to
edit the list |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Key
signature templates with the ability to edit the list |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Music instruments templates with the
ability to edit the list |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Interval input
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Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Symbols “Open hat” “Hand
direction", "Percussion”, “Barre”, “Palm”, “Fingers”, “Strings”,
“Blues”. |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Microtone |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Part copy of image score |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Transpose templates with the ability
to edit the list |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Dynamic,
effects, guitar frames and tablature tuning |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Chord names calculation by the notes input to the score |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Beaming note styles setup for any
measure |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Measure alignment setup for any staff |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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One voice in two staves |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Extra
music fonts plug in |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Additional devices for music
output setup |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Composition templates design |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Publication in Web |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Lyric editor |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Sound fonts sf2 usage |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
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Jazz
Swing |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
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Customizable notes layout |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
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Drum notes
enter from the Drum map list |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
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Transpose on key changing |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
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