PrintMusic 2004

by MakeMusic!

Product Features

• Music notation software for creating, hearing, and printing sheet music
• Free music scanning and SmartMusic instrument sounds
• Write songs up to 24 staves; create scores and print out parts
• Create lead sheets with lyrics, chord symbols, and guitar fretboards
• Easy to print, e-mail, or save as SmartMusic Accompaniment

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00029XAUG
• Item model number: PHR04
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 20, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,834 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #24 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Music Creation & Sequencing
  • #58 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Notation & Composition
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

PrintMusic! music notation software is powerful enough for professionals, yet affordable enough for everyone.

• Write songs up to 24 staves
• Perfect for beginners
• Create lead sheets with lyrics, chord symbols, and guitar fretboards
• Create scores and print out parts
• Scan sheet music for transposing or rearranging

Easy to get started: the Setup Wizard helps you select instruments/voices, key/time signatures, pick-up measures, and more, then sets up your score automatically.

Easy to put your notes on the page: find the way that's easiest for you.

• Play your MIDI keyboard and watch the exclusive HyperScribe feature notate as you play.
• Scan your music directly into PrintMusic! with the included free SmartScore Lite 3.0 technology.
• "Click" your notes into place while you hear them with Simple Note Entry.
• Accurately enter notes when you play your acoustic instrument into a microphone using our exclusive MicNotator.
• "Click" in notes from your computer or MIDI keyboard with Speedy Note Entry.

Easy to hear your music: just click the "play" button and hear your music with all the feeling, phrasing, and nuance you intended.

Easy to print, e-mail, or save as a SmartMusic Accompaniment: you can even print in color or post your score on the Internet.

Product Description

The music notastion software that lets you hear & print great sheet music! / For Windows & Macintosh

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

52 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't live up to its description, December 2, 2004

By 

Reader - See all my reviews

This review is from: PrintMusic 2004 (CD-ROM)

The manufacturer's description of this software reprinted on amazon's website and on the software box states that one of its key features is that you can "Scan sheet music for transposing or rearranging." I bought the software based in large part on this representation. I realized there was a potential problem when I found that the manual that comes with the program has nothing on scanning. I then followed the "help" suggestions contained on the disk to scan a page of a perfectly legible printed part in 6/8 meter. I ended up with a part in 4/4 that added rests and dotted notes to make up the difference in the time signature. The scanning software also changed the key signature arbitrarily at various points, left out whole measures and changed others. When I tried to convert the scan into 6/8, it added even more wrong data. I tried calling the "free" telephone support, which is a long distance call. They weren't able to help over the phone, and offered to try to work with the file by email. Ultimately they told me that only their professional software would properly convert a scan of this music. I told them that this appears to be a serious bug -- how can you represent that your software scans music, when it turns every 6/8 part into a 4/4 part and you end up having to edit virtually every measure? I haven't gotten any response.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Product for "click" entry!, December 17, 2004

By 

Jericho (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: PrintMusic 2004 (CD-ROM)

For the price you pay, you really get an outstanding program. Upon getting it, I dove straight into the most complicated stuff I could possibly think of composing, and it assisted me through it all beautifully and simply. (I had no need for the scanning or MIDI features, so I have no comment on those - the "click" entry is that of which I speak.) Once you devote a little time and figure out how it works, you'll have no problem with it. (A book over a hundred pages in length accompanies the program). This product is perfect for any non-professional composer who is looking for a sound program whose price isn't outrageous.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Human Playback Glitchy At Times, February 4, 2005

By 

Randall R. Scott (St. Louis, Missouri) - See all my reviews

This review is from: PrintMusic 2004 (CD-ROM)

For the price, the product is very good; however, the main reason I bought it was due to its Human Playback feature, which for the most part works very well but occasionally "wobbles" or makes "static"-like noises. The HP.dll file was updated in the Finale 2005 product, but this update-file is not compatible with PrintMusic! 2004. I'm still awaiting word from customer support regarding any possible HP.dll updates for PrintMusic! 2004.