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- From: denio@seismo.CSS.GOV (Dennis O'Neill)
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- Subject: Music Notation Programs - a list in answer to a FAQ
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- Date: 16 Apr 1994 12:08:21 GMT
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- Summary: This is a list of music notation applications on various computers.
- It contains names, availabilities, and (where known) prices of music
- notation programs. It does not contain subjective evaluations of
- any of the programs.
- Keywords: music, notation
- Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu rec.music.compose:6156 comp.music:12959 rec.music.makers:11915 comp.answers:4925 rec.answers:4924 news.answers:18125
-
- Archive-name: music/notation-pgms
- Last-modified: 1994 February 1
-
- Posting frequency: monthly
-
-
- (Apologies for this being so late, I've been away)
- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | List of known music notation programs |
- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A few background questions, some with answers
- Summary table: a table of notation programs and the computers they run on
- Individual entries: information about each program
- List of contributors: people who have contributed to this list
- Revision history
-
- The currency of this list depends upon its readers. Please send updates
- or corrections to denio@s3reston.scubed.com.
-
-
-
- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | Introduction |
- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- Posters often ask about music notation programs. For their information,
- I've put together the following list of notation programs. Please note
- that this is only a list; evaluation is left to others. Since I don't
- have the hardware (or the time, or the expertise) to evaluate them all
- fairly and completely, I choose not to publish evaluations of any of them.
-
- This list is subject to amendation. Without doubt there are errors and
- omissions. If the reader has any additions or corrections, please send
- them to me (denio@s3reston.scubed.com).
-
- Electronic Musician had a review article ("Modern Manuscripts: EM Guide
- to Notation Software", by George Litterst, August 1993) on music notation
- programs; I've contacted EM for permission to extract info from their
- article to include in this list, but have not yet received it. As of
- the date of this posting, all information in this list was discovered
- either by my own research or via email from other interested parties; I
- have not yet looked at the EM article.
-
- Alan Belkin has published a review of several Mac notation programs
- (Finale, Nightingale, Encore, Lime, and Composer's Mosaic) in the
- Spring 1994 issue of Computer Music Journal. His review includes
- a feature table and discussion of the question of standard notation
- file format.
-
- Many of the application names, operating system names, font names, and
- so on that appear in this list are trademarks belonging to their
- respective owners.
-
-
-
- In re: prices
- Prices are in USA dollars and phone numbers are for the USA, unless
- otherwise indicated. All prices shown are list prices; street prices
- may be very different from list prices.
-
-
-
- In re: demos
- Some commercial manufacturers make demos available. Some of them charge
- for the demos. While demos are sometimes available on the Internet,
- those demos are often of old versions. Your best bet is to contact the
- manufacturer directly for demos of applications in which you are
- interested.
-
-
-
- Soapbox: if you use shareware, register it.
-
-
-
- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | Other relevant FAQs |
- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- Chris Schumann (whizkid@oingomth.uwc.edu) maintains a list of music
- software street prices that includes notation software prices for the
- USA. It's available via "gopher oingomth.uwc.edu" in the Electronic
- Music Software Price Guide. The list is not available via anonymous
- ftp as far as I can tell. The list gets posted to rec.music.makers,
- rec.music.makers.marketplace, rec.music.compose, and comp.music
- newsgroups. (17 Feb 1994)
-
- Elaine Charlson (elainec@annis.uk.sun.com) posts a list similar to
- Mr./Ms. Schumann's, but for the UK. Ms. Charlson posts her list to
- rec.music.makers.synth and comp.music. (1 March 1994)
-
-
-
- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | A few background questions, some with answers |
- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- *QUESTION* Since there seems to be no standard file format for music
- notation files, what mechanism exists to transfer music from one
- application to another (e.g., from Finale to Encore)? Some have
- suggested MIDI files, but I haven't tried that yet. Any suggestions or
- experience?
-
- Answer so far: most commercial notation programs can export and import
- standard MIDI files, so this path can be used for partial communication
- between programs. It seems that MIDI has no provision for dynamics
- or lyrics, however, so those would be lost in translation.
-
- Hugh Field-Richards (hsfr@dra.hmg.gb) reported the following to me:
- "Although it is not a complete answer you might care to take note of
- some work that I have been doing for some years past. This is is the
- text notation language, Cadenza. This is a proposed language for
- describing music in pure text form and could be used as a standard
- interchange language with ease. The US journal 'Computer Music
- Journal' were recently kind enough to publish my article on Cadenza
- in their Winter 1993 journal pp60ff. ..."
- He notes the existance of a commercial product called Cadenza that is not
- associated with the notation description language of the same name.
-
-
-
-
- *QUESTION* Are files built by an application on one environment portable
- to that same application on another environment? E.g., if one creates
- a Finale file on the Mac, can a Finale user on MS-Windows read the file?
-
-
-
- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | Summary table |
- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- N.B.: Most software is sold at prices discounted from list prices.
- To be fair to everyone, I've only shown list prices. Some commercial
- software manufacturers offer substantial discounts to academic
- customers. Check with your favorite software store, or see the FAQs
- by Elaine Charlson and Chris Schumann, cited above, for actual prices.
-
- A A M M M N O U X P
- m t a S S e S N P
- i a c D W X / I C
- List g r O i t 2 X
- Application Name Price a i S n
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- abc2mtex free | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- ACCU Music Sys $20s | | | | * | | | * | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Ballade | | | * | | * | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- CMN free | | | * | | | * | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Composer's Mosaic $595 | | | * | | | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Composer's Workbench $50s | | | | * | | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Copyist Professional $325 | * | * | | | ? | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Cubase Score | | * | * | | * | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Dlx. Music Const. Set $80 | | | ? | | | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Encore $595 | | | * | | * | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- EZ-Score Plus ~$300 | | * | | | | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Finale $749 | | | * | | * | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Finale Allegro $249 | | | * | | * | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- GTS Music System $50s | | | | * | | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Lime $295 | | | * | | | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- MasterScore | | * | | | | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Melody Master $23s | | | | * | | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Musicator $299 | | | | | * | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Music Engraver | | | * | | | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- MusicPrinter Plus $495 | | | | * | | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Musicshop $149 | | | * | | | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- MusicTeX free | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- MusicTime $249 | | | * | | * | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- MuTeX free | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Muzika free | | | | | * | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Nightingale $495 | | | * | | | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Notator Logic $399 | | * | * | | * | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- NoteAbility $499 | | | | | | * | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Note Processor $500+ | | | | * | p | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Notewriter $295 | | | * | | | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Orchest | | * | | | | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Personal Composer | | | | | * | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- PowerTracks Pro $29 | | | | * | * | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Professional Composer $395 | | | ? | | | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- QuickScore Deluxe $80 | | | | * | * | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Score ~$1000 | | | | | | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Score Perfect | | * | | | | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- SongWright $119 | | | | | * | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- WinSong Composer $80 | | | | | * | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
-
- s = shareware
- * = available now
- p = promised
- ? = might be available, info provider was not sure
-
- Miscellaneous environments:
- Acorn Archimedes: Sibelius 6/7
- SGI: CMN
-
-
-
- Products to scan sheet music:
-
- A A M M M N O U X
- m t a S S e S N
- i a c D W X / I
- List g r O i t 2 X
- Application Name Price a i S n
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- Midiscan $379 | | | | | * | | | | |
- -----------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
-
-
-
- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | Individual entries |
- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- Structure of individual entries:
-
- Name: name of the application
- Platforms: what the app runs on
- Prerequisites: minimum requirements, if known
- Price: list price
- Manufacturer: person or company that produces the app
- Demo: where to get a demo
- Review: where to find a review of this application
- To acquire: where to get the app
- Info source: where I learned about it
- Entry updated: date of last update of this entry
-
- An asterisk by the application name means that I recovered the application
- or its demo from the cited Internet location. An "m" by the application
- name means that I received the demo from the manufacturer.
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: * abc2mtex
- Platforms: Any system supporting MusicTeX and TeX
- Prerequisites: TeX and MusicTeX
- Price: free
- Manufacturer: Chris Walshaw <C.Walshaw@gre.ac.uk>
- Demo: none (it's free - get the whole package)
- Review:
- To acquire: celtic.stanford.edu:/pub/tunes/abc2mtex
- ftp.maths.tcd.ie:/pub/TeX/abc2mtex
- ftp.uni-koeln.de:/tex/misc/abc2mtex
- or email manufacturer
- Info source: manufacturer
- Entry updated: 13 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: * ACCU Music System version 3.7
- Platforms: MS-DOS, OS/2
- Prerequisites: any 80x86, 384kb RAM, MS-DOS 3.3 or higher
- Price: shareware: $20 plus $3 shipping (USA) or $6 (other countries)
- Manufacturer: Kevin Fischer (kfischer@seas.ucla.edu)
- Demo: none (shareware)
- To acquire: MSDOS version at oak.oakland.edu:pub/msdos/music/ac37musd.zip
- OS/2 version at ftp.cdrom.com:pub/os2/2_x/mmedia/ac35muso.zip
- Info source: info files included with application
- Entry updated: 21 February 1994
-
- Note: The author has announced (14 Jan 1994) an OS/2 version.
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Ballade
- Platforms: Mac, MSWindows
- Prerequisites:
- List price:
- Manufacturer: DynaWare USA, Inc.
- 950 Tower Lane, Suite 1150
- Foster City, Ca. 94404
- 415-349-5700, 415-349-5879 (fax)
- Demo: available from manufacturer
- Review:
- To acquire:
- Info source: ad in Electronic Musician, December 1993, p. 94
- Entry updated: 1 February 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: * CMN (Common Music Notation)
- Platforms: NeXT, Mac, SGI. (Eventually will be ported to 486)
- Prerequisites: Common Lisp; CLOS (pcl); PostScript; Sonata or Petrucci font
- List price: Free.
- Manufacturer: Bill Schottstaedt (bil@ccrma.stanford.edu).
- Demo: not available
- Review:
- To acquire: anonymous ftp at ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu:pub/Lisp/cmn.tar.Z
- Info source: personal communication from author.
- Entry updated: 13 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Composer's Mosaic
- Platforms: Mac
- Prerequisites:
- Price: $595
- Manufacturer: Mark of the Unicorn
- 1280 Massachusetts Ave.
- Cambridge, MA 02138
- 617-576-2760
- Demo:
- Review: Alan Belkin, "", Computer Music Journal, Spring 1994
- To acquire:
- Info source: Bill Park (as976@cleveland.freenet.edu)
- David Herberg (herberg_david@tandem.com)
- Entry updated: 24 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: * Composer's WorkBench
- Platforms: MS-DOS
- Prerequisites: 80286 or better, graphics adapter, MS-DOS 3.3 or better,
- Roland MPU-401 or compatible MIDI card, MIDI synth.
- Price: $50 plus shipping (shareware)
- Manufacturer: Dennis McNamara
- Demo: none (shareware)
- Review:
- To acquire: oak.oakland.edu:pub/msdos/music/cwb135.zip
- Info source: info files included with application
- Entry updated: 13 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Copyist (basic, Professional, and DTP version available)
- Platforms: Amiga, Atari, possibly PC
- Prerequisites:
- Price: $325.00
- Manufacturer: Dr. T
- Demo:
- Review:
- To acquire:
- Info source: Jonathan E. Quist (jeq@lachman.com)
- Entry updated: 7 December 1993
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Cubase Score
- Platforms: Atari, Mac, MS-Windows
- Prerequisites:
- Price:
- Manufacturer: Steinberg
- 17700 Raymer St., Suite 1001
- Northridge, Ca. 91325
- 818-993-4091, 818-701-7452 (fax)
- Demo: not available
- Review:
- To acquire:
- Info source: David Borden (borden@netcom.com),
- Joan Boorstein (jboor@cs.umb.edu),
- Han Suelmann (suelmann@th.rug.nl),
- Steve Bergstedt (berg@areaplg2.corp.mot.com)
- Henry Howey (mus_heh@shsu.edu)
- Entry updated: 7 December 1993
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Deluxe Music Construction Set
- Platforms: Mac
- Prerequisites:
- Price: ~$80
- Manufacturer: Mark of the Unicorn
- 1280 Massachusetts Ave.
- Cambridge, MA 02138
- 617-576-2760
- Demo:
- Review:
- To acquire:
- Info source: David Herberg (herberg_david@tandem.com)
- Entry updated: 24 January 1994
-
- Note: info source was not sure that this app is still available.
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: m* Encore
- Platforms: Mac, MS-Windows
- Prerequisites:
- Price: $595
- Manufacturer: Passport Designs, Inc.
- 100 Stone Pine Road,
- Half Moon Bay, Ca 94019
- 415-726-0280
- Email:
- AOL: Passport
- AppleLink: Passport
- Compuserve: 71333,1433
- Internet (via Morph On-Line): Passport_Designs@morph.com
- Demo: Current demo is available from manufacturer.
- An out-of-date Windows demo (version 2.6, 1992) may be
- available in
- ftp.cica.indiana.edu:ftp/pub/pc/win3/sounds/encore.zip
- I suggest getting the current demo from the manufacturer.
- A Mac demo may be available from
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:
- /systems/mac/umich.edu/sound/midi/encoredemo2.05.cpt.hqx
- Review: Alan Belkin, "", Computer Music Journal, Spring 1994
- To acquire: software stores, music stores
- Info source: manufacturer
- Robert M. Golub, M.D. (golub@nwu.edu)
- Entry updated: 14 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: EZ-Score Plus
- Platforms: Atari ST/TT/Falcon
- Prerequisites:
- Price: ~$300
- Manufacturer: Hybrid Arts originally, currently Barefoot Software
- somewhere in the LA area
- Demo:
- Review:
- To acquire:
- Info source: Stephen Wint (swint@mksim3.dseg.ti.com)
- Entry updated: 7 December 1993
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: m Finale
- Platforms: Mac, MS-Windows
- Prerequisites:
- Price: $749
- Manufacturer: Coda Music Technology
- 800-843-2066, 612-937-9611
- Demo: said not to be available; video available from manufacturer
- Review: Alan Belkin, "", Computer Music Journal, Spring 1994
- To acquire: software stores, music stores
- Info source: manufacturer
- Steve Plemmons (plemmons@mth.msu.edu)
- Mark Basinski (basinski@biosci.arizona.edu)
- Entry updated: 1 February 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Finale Allegro
- Platforms: Mac, MS-Windows
- Prerequisites:
- Price: $249
- Manufacturer: Coda Music Technology
- 800-843-2066, 612-937-9611
- Demo: from manufacturer
- Review:
- To acquire: software stores, music stores
- Info source: ad in Electronic Musician
- Mark Basinski (basinski@biosci.arizona.edu)
- Entry updated: 1 February 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: * GTS Music System
- Platforms: MS-DOS
- Prerequisites: SVGA, SoundBlaster, mouse
- Price: $50 (shareware)
- Manufacturer: Kim Young Jae
- Demo: none (shareware)
- Review:
- To acquire: oak.oakland.edu:pub/msdos/gts_music/*
- Info source: info files included with application
- Entry updated: 13 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: * Lime
- Platforms: Mac
- Prerequisites: 2MB RAM, PS printer, StuffIt
- Price: $295
- Manufacturer: Lippold Haken and Dorothea Blostein
- Demo: unicorn.cerl.uiuc.edu:/pub/lime
- Review: Alan Belkin, "", Computer Music Journal, Spring 1994
- To acquire: Electronic Courseware Systems
- 1210 Lancaster Drive
- Champaign, Il. 61821
- 800-832-4965, 217-359-7099; questions, comments 217-355-4500
- Info source: info files included with demo, call to vendor
- Entry updated: 13 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: MasterScore
- Platforms: Atari
- Prerequisites:
- Price:
- Manufacturer: Steinberg
- Postfach 261833
- 20508 Hamburg
- Germany
- Demo:
- Review:
- To acquire:
- Info source: Gerd Castan (g.castan@physik.uni-stuttgart.de)
- Entry updated: 26 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Midiscan
- Platforms: MS-Windows
- Prerequisites:
- Price: $379
- Manufacturer: Musitek
- 410 Bryant Circle, Suite K
- Ojai, Ca. 93023
- 800-676-8055, 805-646-8099 (fax)
- Demo:
- Review:
- To acquire:
- Info source: Ad in Electronic Musician, December 1993, p. 109.
- Entry updated: 1 February 1994
-
- Notes: scans sheet music into Type I Midi files. Ad claims 98%
- accuracy.
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: * Melody Master
- Platforms: MS-DOS
- Prerequisites: 440 KB to install.
- Price: $19 plus $4 shipping, $49 plus $4 shipping for commercial users
- (shareware)
- Manufacturer: Alexei A. Efros, Jr.
- Demo: none
- Review:
- To acquire: oak.oakland.edu:pub/msdos/music/melody21.zip
- Info source: info included with application
- Entry updated: 14 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Musicator
- Platforms: MS-Windows
- Prerequisites:
- Price: $149
- Manufacturer: Musicator
- P.B. Box 410039
- San Francisco, CA 04141
- 916-756-9807
- Demo: $5 from manufacturer
- Review:
- To acquire: computer and music stores
- Info source: ad in Electronic Musician
- Entry updated: 24 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Music Engraver
- Platforms: Mac
- Prerequisites:
- Price:
- Manufacturer:
- Demo:
- Review:
- To acquire:
- Info source: Dr. Hugh S. Field-Richards (hsfr@dra.hmg.gb)
- Entry updated: 4 February 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: * MusicPrinter Plus
- Platforms: MS-DOS
- Prerequisites:
- Price: $495 (academic discounts available)
- Manufacturer: Temporal Acuity Products, Inc.
- Bld. #1, Suite 200
- 300 120th Ave. NE
- Bellevue, Washington 98005
- 800-426-2673, 206-462-1007
- Demo: A demo may be on celtic.stanford.edu:/pub/tunes/Music.Printer
- or call manufacturer
- Review:
- To acquire: software stores, music stores, or manufacturer
- Info source: info provided with demo
- Entry updated: 13 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Musicshop
- Platforms: Mac
- Prerequisites:
- Price: $149
- Manufacturer: Opcode Systems, Inc.
- 3950 Fabian Way
- Palo Alto, CA 94303
- 415-856-3333
- Demo:
- Review:
- To acquire:
- Info source: article in Electronic Musician, Jan 1994
- Entry updated: 24 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: * MusicTeX
- Platforms: Any system supporting TeX
- Prerequisites: TeX
- Price: free
- Manufacturer: Daniel Taupin
- Demo: none
- Review:
- To acquire: ftp.gmd.de:/music/musictex, various files
- celtic.stanford.edu:/pub/tunes/Music.TeX
- Info source: Dale Gold (dgold@basso.actrix.gen.nz)
- Entry updated: 14 January 1994
-
- Note: Base site is said to be rsovax.lps.u-psud.fr, but, though
- I was able to get onto the site, all I managed to get
- was lots of error messages - the commands apparently are
- different from those on a typical UNIX ftp site.
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: m* MusicTime
- Platforms: Mac, MS-Windows
- Prerequisites:
- Price: $249
- Manufacturer: Passport Designs, Inc.
- 100 Stone Pine Road,
- Half Moon Bay, Ca 94019
- 415-726-0280
- Demo: Current demo is available from manufacturer.
- An out-of-date demo (version 1.2, 1992) may be available in
- ftp.cica.indiana.edu:ftp/pub/pc/win3/sounds/musictim.zip;
- I suggest getting the current demo from the manufacturer.
- Review:
- To acquire: software stores, music stores
- Info source: manufacturer
- Entry updated: 14 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: * MuTeX
- Platforms: Any system supporting TeX
- Prerequisites: TeX
- Price: free
- Manufacturer: Andrea Steinbach and Angelika Schofer
- Demo: none
- Review:
- To acquire: oak.oakland.edu:pub/msdos/tex/mutex.zip
- Info source: Dale Gold (dgold@basso.actrix.gen.nz)
- Entry updated: 13 January 1994
-
- Note: Just to confuse things, there is a communications
- application called mutex102 that has nothing to do
- with MuTeX.
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: * Muzika 2
- Platforms: MS-Windows
- Prerequisites: 80386 or better, soundcard, MS-Win 3.1, 1 MB RAM, 1 MB on disk
- Price: free
- Manufacturer: Eran Klonover and Eitan Medina
- Demo: none
- Review:
- To acquire: ftp.cica.indiana.edu:ftp/pub/pc/win3/sounds/muzika2.zip
- Info source: info files included with app
- Entry updated: 13 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Nightingale
- Platforms: Mac
- Prerequisites: System 6.0.5 or better, maybe MacII or better, maybe 4 MB
- List Price: $495
- Manufacturer: Temporal Acuity Products
- 300 120th Ave. NE Bldg 1
- Bellevue, WA 98005
- 800/426-2673 206/462-1007
- Demo: Free demo disk available on request.
- Review: Alan Belkin, "", Computer Music Journal, Spring 1994
- To acquire: software stores, music stores, or manufacturer
- Info source: Archer Sully (archer@elysium.esd.sgi.com)
- Entry updated: 7 December 1993
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Notator Logic
- Platforms: Atari, Mac, MS-Win
- Prerequisites:
- Price: $399
- Manufacturer: Emagic, dist. in USA by Ensoniq
- Demo:
- Review:
- To acquire:
- Info source: Steve Bergstedt (berg@areaplg2.corp.mot.com)
- Entry updated: 7 December 1993
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: NoteAbility
- Platforms: NeXTStep for Intel, Motorola
- Prerequisites: NeXTStep 3.0 or higher, Sonata or Composer font
- Price: $499, educational discounts available
- Manufacturer: Keith Hamel
- Ciusa (Creative Imagineering America)
- 3208 W. Lake St., Suite 133
- Minneapolis, Mn 55416
- 612-822-1604, 612-922-4426 (fax)
- ciusa@cup.portal.com
- Demo: $10 (5 disks) available from Ciusa
- Review:
- To acquire: Order from Ciusa
- Info source: Gerard Schwarz (ciusa@cup.portal.com)
- Henry Flurry (henryf@imagine.com)
- Entry updated: 7 December 1993
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: The Note Processor
- Platforms: MS-DOS (Windows version to be available soon)
- Prerequisites:
- Price: $500 plus $150 for postscript option
- Manufacturer: Thoughtprocessors
- Demo: from manufacturer (jnoxon is putting on ftp.cica.indiana.edu )
- Review:
- To Acquire: from manufacturer
- Info source: PJ Noxon (jnoxon@indiana.edu)
- Entry updated: 7 December 1993
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Notewriter
- Platforms: Mac
- Prerequisites: Mac Plus or better
- Price: $295, $20 System 7 upgrade for registered users
- Manufacturer: Hardcore Music
- Demo: none
- Review:
- To Acquire: Keith.Hamel.ircam.fr (until July 1994)
- Info source: Bob Prichard (bob@unixg.ubc.ca)
- Entry updated: 4 March 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Orchest
- Platforms: Atari
- Prerequisites:
- Price: "Light" version: DM 59.-
- Manufacturer: Prof. Herbert Walz
- Anton-Koeck-Str. 8a
- 82049 Pullach
- Germany
- Demo: contact manufacturer
- Review:
- To acquire:
- Info source: Gerd Castan (g.castan@physik.uni-stuttgart.de)
- Entry updated: 26 January 1994
-
- Note: C source for MIDI handling is also available.
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Personal Composer
- Platforms: MS-Windows
- Prerequisites:
- Price:
- Manufacturer: Personal Composer (?)
- 3213 W. Wheeler St., Suite 140
- Seattle, WA 98199
- 800-446-8088, 206-524-5447
- Demo:
- Review:
- To acquire: manufacturer
- Info source: ad in Electronic Musician
- Entry updated: 24 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: PowerTracks Pro
- Platforms: MS-Windows, MS-DOS
- Prerequisites: 2 MB RAM, soundcard or MIDI
- Price: $29
- Manufacturer: PG Music, Inc.
- 266 Elmwood Avenue, Suite 111
- Buffalo, NY 14222
- 800-268-6272, 905-528-2368
- Demo:
- Review:
- To acquire: manufacturer
- Info source: ad in Electronic Musician
- Entry updated: 24 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Professional Composer
- Platforms: Mac
- Prerequisites:
- Price: ~$395
- Manufacturer: Mark of the Unicorn
- 1280 Massachusetts Ave.
- Cambridge, MA 02138
- 617-576-2760
- Demo:
- Review:
- To acquire:
- Info source: David Herberg (herberg_david@tandem.com)
- Entry updated: 24 January 1994
-
- Note: info source was not sure that this app is still available.
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: QuickScore Deluxe
- Platforms: MS-DOS, MS-Windows
- Prerequisites:
- Price: $79.95
- Manufacturer: Dr. T's Music Software
- 123 Crescent Road
- Needham, MA 02194
- 800-989-6434, 617-455-1454
- Demo:
- Review:
- To acquire: Manufacturer, software stores, music stores
- Info source: ad in Electronic Musician
- Entry updated: 24 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Sibelius 6/7
- Platforms: Acorn Archimedes
- Prerequisites:
- Price:
- Manufacturer: Sibelius Software
- 4 Bailey Mews
- Auckland Rd.,
- Cambridge CB5 8DR United Kingdom
- Telephone (UK access code, then) 0223 302765
- Demo:
- Review:
- To acquire: manufacturer?
- Info source: Richard Furse (richardfurse@muse.demon.co.uk)
- Entry updated: 7 December 1993
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Score
- Platforms: PC, NeXT under SoftPC
- Prerequisites:
- Price: about $1000
- Manufacturer: San Andreas Press (Leland Smith)
- P.O. Box 60247
- Palo Alto, Ca. 94306
- 415-856-9394
- Demo:
- Review:
- To acquire: manufacturer
- Info source: ad in Acoustic Guitar magazine, Jan 1994
- Bill Schottstaedt (bil@ccrma.stanford.edu)
- Entry updated: 14 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: Score Perfect
- Platforms: Atari
- Prerequisites:
- Price:
- Manufacturer: Klaus Kleinbrahm
- Demo:
- Review:
- To acquire: Soft Arts
- Postfach 12 77 62
- 10589 Berlin
- Germany
- Telephone: (int'l access, then) +49 30 6843737
- Info source: Gerd Castan (g.castan@physik.uni-stuttgart.de)
- Entry updated: 26 January 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: SongWright
- Platforms: MS-Windows
- Prerequisites:
- Price: $119
- Manufacturer: SongWright Software
- 7 Loudoun St., S.E.
- Leesburg, Va. 22075
- 703-777-7232 800-877-8070
- Demo: 30-day money-back guarantee
- Review:
- To acquire: contact manufacturer
- Info source: Ad in Electronic Musician, December 1993
- Monica Cellio (monica_cellio@transarc.com)
- Entry updated: 1 February 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- Name: WinSong Composer
- Platforms: MS-Windows
- Prerequisites: 80286, 1MB RAM, DOS 3.1, Windows 3.1, HD, mouse, graphics
- Price: $79.95
- Manufacturer: Softronics
- 5085 List Dr.
- Colorado Springs, Co. 80919
- 800-225-8590, 719-593-9540, 719-548-1878 (fax)
- Demo:
- Review:
- To acquire:
- Info source: Review in Electronic Musician, December 1993
- Entry updated: 1 February 1994
-
- ===============================================================================
-
-
-
- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | List of contributors |
- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- Thanks to the following, all of whom helped make this list better:
- Mark Basinski,
- Alan Belkin,
- Steve Bergstedt,
- Joan Boorstein,
- Dave Borden,
- Gerd Castan,
- Monica Cellio,
- Alan Edwards,
- Dr. Hugh S. Field-Richards,
- Henry Flurry,
- Richard Furse,
- Dale Gold,
- Robert M. Golub, M.D.,
- David Herberg,
- Henry Howey,
- Gerard Manning,
- Carl Moore,
- PJ Noxon,
- Bill Park,
- Bob Pritchard,
- Jonathan E. Quist,
- Bill Schottstaedt,
- Gerard Schwarz,
- Dave Segal,
- Han Suelmann,
- Chris
- Walshaw,
- Dale Wiese,
- and Stephen Wint
-
-
-
-
- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | History |
- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- March 1994:
- o added "review" entry
- o added section on Cadenza from Hugh Field-Richards
-
- February 1994:
- o approved for inclusion in news.answers
-
- January 1994:
- o corrections
- o reformatted summary table
- o recovered all apps and demos available via Internet, checked info
- o added "Entry updated" field
- o trying to format to be acceptable for news.answers
-
- December 7, 1993: corrected and expanded
- o added several applications
- o corrected phone number for Finale mfr
- o added Atari column
- o changed "simtel" sites to "oak.oakland.edu"
-
- December 2, 1993: original list
-
- --
- Dennis O'Neill denio@seismo.css.gov 703-476-5197
- S-Cubed Div. Maxwell Labs 11800 Sunrise Valley Dr. #1212 Reston, Va. 22091 USA
- Opinions expressed herein are my own and do not necessarily reflect
- the opinions of my employer.
-