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• Pizzicato: Can You Write In Music? — Pizzicato is music writing software. «Writing» here means literally what it says: Pizzicato allows writing any music down, note by note, into staff and then playing the music you have written. It sounds simple, but Pizzicato is really multi-purpose, multi-possibility software. First, it is useful for studying the common principles: it allows writing specific notes, also by music keyboard (or a virtual one), creating simple…
• Virtual Music Composer 3.0 PRO, A Source For Inspiration — Regardless of how «intellectual» you think your computer is, you can’t disagree that today’s software programmers have many smart ideas, useful for the most of us. In the area of music writing, conservative musicians tend to see the computer as a smart keyboard (sometimes way too smart); modern musicians tend to see it as a cutting table for samples and effects. Almost nobody tries to use the…