Customer Reviews

Notation Technologies Play Music PC

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This is a great program and is well worth the money. I've written many original compositions with this software with no problems. I use the program to write and print my arraignments at church and it's more than paid for itself. Anyone who has the need for an easy to use and stable notation program should buy this program!
Happy Musician.

This is an easy to use program, but watch out for the bugs. The most serious problem is that if you save a score as a MIDI file, all the repeat & end signs that you may have put in the score disappear. There is another peculiar problem with the program: if you cut & paste notes, chords or dynamic signs too often, they either stop playing or keep playing at places on the score where you removed them from. The "manual" tells you to keep clicking on a little brush symbol to redraw the score, but that doesn't always solve the problem. One annoying feature of the program is that every time you play your score, the note palette closes. So, if you want to add a few notes, listen to the score & then add a few more notes, you have to keep opening the note palette. After a while this becomes tedious.

I suggest you spend your money on something better.

Frustrated Musician

Compose, play and print your own sheet music easily. Perfect for entry-level musicians.

I really like this program. I am going to keep writing and printing my songs to be a real composer someday. I play my keyboard with this program and its like a recording studio. Thanks for all of the FUN.

The program looks good, is easy to add notation and setup score once you know what you're doing. The most serious warning I have is you can lose A LOT of time and effort with this program. The "redraw" painter button (or F5) are absolutely not help to fixing the repeated crashes I've experience with this program. After putting in just 20 measures of a new score, measure 5 developed some sort of bug that makes the entire program crashes if you attempt to make "ANY" change to the measure. There are no instructions as to how to fix a corruption in an individual measure and attempting to erase the measure in no good because, once again, anything you do will crash the program.

I'm not even certain I want to start over, and I had such great hopes for this program when I started; my advice is to seek out a more reliably stable program!

I haven't been able to use it because the manual is garbage. I contacted them, with no reply. It is a waste of money if you can't figure out how to use it!

Poor documentation. Clumsy to use on some of the finer points of music notation. I've lost file after file during the middle of notating music due to buggy programming corrupting the file while trying to fix musical mistakes. I guess you get what you pay for. I'm going elsewhere and will pay for a more sophisticated program this time.

If you're using a guitar, I'd recommend guitar pro. Anything else, this is the program for writing songs. It only plays in piano tone, which can be somewhat limiting, but it gives you a good idea of what something sounds like. A great idea, actually.

Granted, I didn't pay a lot for this software, but I have found it very, very time-consuming to use. It is next to impossible to undo a mistake. In fact, if you make a mistake, you often have to simply delete your entire work and start over. Very poor software documentation as well. Wish it was better...but, I'm going back to just using blank staff paper!

I have been really having allot of fun with Play Music. I hope to get a keyboard to use with this for christamas.