Crescendo Music Notation is a comprehensive and intuitive music notation editor developed by NCH Software, designed to facilitate the creation, editing, and printing of musical compositions and arrangements.
What it Does
Crescendo Music Notation is a powerful tool that allows musicians, composers, and music educators to create, save, and print musical scores with ease. It supports a wide range of musical elements, including notes, rests, key signatures, time signatures, and various musical symbols. This software is versatile, catering to both beginners and seasoned professionals by providing a user-friendly interface and advanced features.Key Features
Note and Rest Entry
- Users can enter notes and rests quickly, ranging from whole notes to sixty-fourth notes, using a simple and fast note entry system.
- The graphical note menu allows for easy modification of notes.
Auto-Formatting and Layout
- The software features an intelligent and fast auto-format function that formats notes on the entire score instantly, ensuring proper alignment and spacing.
- It also offers easy and automatic page and system layout, making the process of creating scores efficient.
Musical Symbols and Notations
- Crescendo supports a complete set of key signatures and time signatures, which can be assigned to any measure in a score. Time signatures can be represented with symbols or arbitrary numbers, with multiple changes permitted throughout the score.
- It includes treble, bass, alto, and tenor clefs, as well as automatic beam grouping for notes.
Chords and Tuplets
- Users can easily create complex chords by adding multiple notes of the same duration to the same position on the staff.
- The software also allows for the creation of tuplets with arbitrary time ratios, such as duplets, triplets, quadruplets, and more.
Dynamic Marks and Repeat Symbols
- Crescendo enables the creation, movement, and alignment of dynamic marks, hairpin (Crescendo and Decrescendo) marks, octave lines, pedal lines, and chord marks.
- It supports the creation of repeat symbols like Segno and Coda, and allows for the assignment of sharp, flat, and natural symbols to notes.
Instrument Support and MIDI
- The software supports multiple instruments and staves, allowing users to create scores for ensembles.
- It integrates with VSTi instruments such as violin or piano for high-quality MIDI playback and supports MIDI input and output, enabling the transcription of MIDI files into musical scores and vice versa.
Additional Features
- Crescendo includes features for creating percussion notation using drum kits and templates.
- Users can add text for titles or dynamics, copy, cut, and paste measures, and brace staves together for ensemble scores.
- The software also features an integrated music dictionary and built-in templates, making it beginner-friendly while still offering advanced functionalities.
Output and Sharing
- Users can print their musical scores directly from the software.
- Crescendo allows for the export of music as MIDI files and other audio formats, facilitating the distribution of compositions through various digital platforms.