Play Music

the easiest music composition software available.

Includes over 30 templates and sample files.

Digital manual included

No Music Theory Knowledge Needed.

EASY TO USE INTERFACE

• Easy and friendly visual interface;
• Immediate access through palettes to hundreds of symbols;
• 10 steps Zoom in and out for score control;
• Transport Commands on Toolbar;
• Graphic Mixer window with settings for Program Change, Voice, MIDI Channel, Solo, Rec, Active Voice Monitor and Port;
• 10 documents operable at the same time;
• Windows/Macintosh standard shortcuts for standard program operations (open, close, save, etc.);
• Dozens of proprietary shortcuts for almost all other program operations;
• Numeric shortcuts for note value selection;
• 1 level of Undo function available for all commands.

Over 128 sounds to choose from.

INPUT OPTIONS:

• Mouse Note Input
  (Palette or keypad value selection);
• MIDI Keyboard Input (Real-time entry);
• MIDI Keyboard Input (Step-time entry);
• Standard MIDI files Import;

Print out or e-mail your original composition and share it with everyone. And if they own Play Music, you can create a composition together!

• Beginners and Professionals
• Educators
• Music Directors
• Musicians
• Band Conductors
• Composers
• Playwrites
• Music Students
• Church Groups
• Recording Artists
• Choirs
• Music Enthusiasts
• Home Schoolers

Notation
Technologies

• Margins of pages definable for each page;
• 24 staves per system;
• Single, Piano, Percussion and Guitar Tab staff to combine in all orchestral formations;
• Document templates for the most common chamber music and orchestra settings;
• 8 available voices per staff
• Guitar tablature;
• Centering function of staves and systems, automatic or manual;
• Direct editing, removing, and inserting of any symbol with the mouse on the score;
• 10 Zoom steps;
• Graphic Mixer window with settings for Program Change,
  Voice, MIDI Channel, Solo, Rec, Active Voice Monitor and Port;
• MIDI output to any external Soundcard and MIDI interface
  (Windows);
• MIDI output with internal QuickTime synthesizer
  (Macintosh);
• Printing with all Printers, including Postscript and QuickDraw support, up to 1512 Dpi;
• Insertion of multiple lyrics with custom settings of fonts, sizes and styles;

• Insertion of Page-Dependent or Staff Dependent texts;
• 6 types of bar lines (single, double, repeat left and right, end of piece, dotted, absent);
• 4 types of connections between staves (simple line, brace, single bracket, brace + single bracket);
• The ability of inserting key signatures (major and minor) in any staff and with automatic note transposition settings;
• The ability of dragging the accidentals; Cross-System dragging for all symbols (Crescendos and diminuendos, Octave, Pedal, Dynamic, Slurs, etc.);
• Control Points for fine positioning and dimensioning of Slurs, Barlines, Staff, Tuplets and Ties;
• The ability of inserting nested Tuplets
  (e.g. a triplet with a quintuplet incorporated);
• Automatic or manual spacing of notes; Auto beaming feature, with Auto Beaming Options;
• Customizable MIDI performance of grace notes
  (cut into preceding or following note, percentage of the cut note etc.);
• Diatonic and chromatic transposition of notes, with all major, minor, augmented and diminished intervals;
• Automatic value change;
• Automatic application of articulations.

Macintosh

Minimum

• System 7 or higher
• 68040 processor or higher
• 8 MB RAM
• CD-ROM drive
• 13" monitor

Recommended

• Power PC processor
• 16 MB RAM
• 15/17" monitor

Windows

Minimum

• Windows 95/98 or NT
• Pentium processor
• 16 MB RAM
• Sound Blaster compatible audio card
• CD-ROM drive
• 13" Monitor
• 800 x 600 resolution

Recommended

• 32 MB RAM
• 17" monitor
• 1024 x 768 resolution