Music Publisher is a professional quality music notation program system for all 32-bit Windows platforms. Focussed entirely on the printed page it is above all a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get visual system. The philosophy of Music Publisher is that it is simply a replacement for pencil and paper. If you want a particular effect on your score which "breaks" the rules of music then Music Publisher will not argue! Above all it produces the notation you want to see and does not impose its own rules. But of course, if you request it then it will help with advice and operations such as Neatening and various Tidying tools.
But if you regard yourself as more of a musician than a computer person, then don't be afraid that Music Publisher is going to be hard going because there is a outstanding amount of assistance within the program. And in any case once registered you are entitled to unlimited support both with the software itself and of course with getting it installed and running. You can get help by email, phone or mail.
Music Publisher Standard Edition is our music notation program that allows you to write music, print it, edit, play and transpose it and produce midi files. But there are many other operations from extracting parts from master scores to producing musical insertions for your Word Processor or Desk Top Publishing program.
Music Publisher Scanning Edition has the same features as the Standard Edition but also has the capability to take input from your scanner rather than typing in the music. Unlike most music program scanning packages it is seamlessly integrated into the Music Publisher system and does not need you to run other software. Just put some printed music on your scanner and you can capture the notation straight into the package.

Entry of notes is directly from the computer keyboard. Notes are placed by their name (eg key A for note A) and the attributes added as you type - e.g. press the full stop (period) key for a dotted note. In addition the musical systems (the staves linked together) can be created exactly as you want to see them, and this construction can be varied from system to system within your score. The features include:
* Treble, Bass, Alto and Tenor clefs (in 2 sizes each).
* Entry of notes is very fast. Includes grace notes, beaming, staccato, marcato marks, dotting, tuplets, tying, slurring, note length, cross-headed notes, acciaccatura (etc), rests and more.
* Many supplied Templates and the facility to add your own without limit.
* Variable stave size - from about 0.15" to 2" (4mm to 50mm), giving up to about 30 staves per A4 or Letter sized page using a small stave size. The only limit is how many you can squeeze on the page!
* Full range of system construction options - no limit to the staves per system.
* Completely flexible and variable stave spacing for different types of musical layout.
* Full set of barline styles.
* Various note head shapes.
* Cue-sized (small) staves available.
* Single-line staves (for percussion etc).
* The only limit is 10,000 staves in the whole work. But heck, I think that should be enough: if it's not then I'll increase it on request!

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $149.00, you can free download and get a free trial.