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NoteAbility Pro 2.373


NoteAbility Pro Professional music notation package for the Mac OS X operating system

System Requirememts
Mac OS X 10.2 or later
Download Details
Company Keith Hamel
Version 2.373
Post Date May 10, 2009
License Demo
File Size 46.9 MB
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NoteAbility Pro 2.373


Professional music notation package for the Mac OS X operating system
NoteAbility Pro is a professional music notation package for the Macintosh OS-X operating system.

Developed by Dr. Keith Hamel at the University of British Columbia, it is easily the most sophisticated music notation software available on any platform. NoteAbility combines both musical intelligence and graphical flexibility in a direct and intuitive graphical user interface.

Notate anything from simple melodies to complex avant garde orchestral music, play the score on your MIDI synthesizer or using Quicktime Musical Instruments and print a publishable copy of your score on any OS-X compatible printer.

If you have been frustrated by the awkwardness and inflexibility of other notation programs, or by the time it takes to learn them, then you definitely should have a look at NoteAbility Pro.


Main features of NoteAbility Pro:

  • Complete set of standard and extended music images (including graphical versions of most images that can be placed anywhere on the page).
  • A wide variety of entry methods including mouse, on-screen keyboard, MIDI step time, MIDI real time and QuickScrawl (gesture recognition).
  • No limits on score size, image size, number of staves, rhythmic complexity, chord complexity, beaming, tuplet groupings, etc.
  • On-screen inspector for modifying the attributes of images and altering the layout of your score.
  • Selection options include shift-selection and selection across multiple pages for efficient editing of your score.
  • Drag and drop TIFF or PDF graphics from a library of custom images.
  • Extensive import and export options.
  • Automatic part extraction.
  • Playback through MIDI and/or QuickTime.
  • Complete on-line help (HTML and PDF).
  • Unlimited number of pages per document
  • Unlimited page size (width and height)
  • User-specified margins
  • Up to 40 systems per page
  • Up to 40 staves per system
  • Up to 16 measures per system (expandable after setup)
  • Standard clefs (treble, alto, tenor, bass, soprano, treble-tenor, octave-bass, percussion)
  • Variable number of lines in staff (1 - 6)
  • Staff type (number of lines) may change at any location
  • Staff segments may be hidden at any location
  • Standard key signatures
  • All time signatures from 1/1 to 32/32 plus complex time signatures (eg. 1/4 3/8)
  • Standard and custom braces on each system (including nested braces)
  • Standard & custom barlines on each system
  • Staff labels (right or left justified in any font & font size)
  • Automatic addition of pages as needed
  • Document display from 25% to 1000%
  • Adjustable page size


    Requirements of NoteAbility Pro:

  • Any Macintosh computer capable of running the OS-X operating system. This includes all Macs with a G3, G4, or better processor.
  • At least 128 MBytes of RAM.
  • At least 100 Mbytes of free disk space.
  • Any Mac OS X compatible printer (using USB, Appletalk or on a network).
  • Any Mac OS X compatible USB Midi interface (optional).


    Limitations of NoteAbility Pro:

  • Registration screen at startup.
  • While operating in demo mode saving file sin all formats is disabled, copying in graphics formats (PDF, TIFF, etc.) is disabled, and printing is restricted to the first page of the document.

    What's New in This Release:

  • Bank changes are now supported during playback.
  • To enter a bank change within a track (staff) use the command b# (eg. b3.).
  • When the staff is played back a bank change message will be sent to the synthesizer.
  • Bank changes are used by several Audio Unit synthesizers for switching between playing techniques on an instrument (eg. switching between arco and pizzicato).
  • As with patch changes, you can disable or enable printing of the bank change markers with a setting in the Other pane of the Preference panel.