Don Parrish-Bell
Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:36:04 -0800
Any chance you or a representative will be at Winter NAMM in Anaheim this year?
Don
You might want to look at my Music Publisher 5 (for Windows).
http://www.muspub.com
It does most of what you list and never argues with you. It is basically a DTP system for music in the sense that it puts notation on the page and if it's wrong or bad notation then it's your problem. It will not reformat without you explicitly telling it to. Basically it's a replacement for paper and pencil but of course a lot more :-)
Lacking from the above list of requirements:
a) no midi input (yet) - but it has midi output.
b) postscript output: no, but it can produce bmp or pcx graphics files or (of course) print to any windows printer.
c) abc import/export is limited basically to the old version 1 "standard", with some extensions in v2. Notably missing are lyrics and separate voices. (Of course the *program* handles those but the export does not)
d) No file conversions, but conversion is simplest performed by scanning-in a printout of the other music using an extra scanning module ("MP Scan 2").
Price is 115 pounds or $170US. MP Scan 2 is 75 pounds or $112.50
The evaluation copy does not expire, but it simply prints across the output "this is an evaluation copy printout".
-- Bernard Hill Braeburn Software Author of Music Publisher system Music Software written by musicians for musicians http://www.braeburn.co.uk Selkirk, Scotland
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