Black Hole Multimedia Software

Noteability Icon NoteAbility
The Foremost Music Notation Software Available for Serious Musicians

NoteAbility is a professional music notation package for NeXTStep computers. 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 through your DSP board and print a publishable copy of your score on your PostScript laser printer. If you have been frustrated by the awkwardness and inflexibility of other notation programs then you definitely should have a look at NoteAbility.

A few of the features of NoteAbility are:

- 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 and EPS graphics from a library of custom images
- extensive import and export options
- automatic part extraction
- playback through MIDI and/or DSP
- complete on-line help

Price: $495
(NoteAbility requires the Sonata music font from Adobe Systems Inc. for screen display and printing. Those who do not already own this font can purchase it for an additional $50.)

Platforms:
Yes -

Intel

OpenStep Committed

Developer:
Opus 1 Music, Inc.

Comments and questions: email bhi1@ix.netcom.com