Bring your songs to life with the fast, easy way to create and print professional-quality sheet music.
Experiment with melodies: Click notes onto the staff and hear the pitches – drag them up and down to find the pitches you want. Play a MIDI keyboard and see the music appear instantly. Import and export MIDI files. Add lyrics with multiple verses
Explore different arrangements: Experiment with more than 128 professional instruments. Select automatic drum grooves for different styles. Type a chord name to hear how it sounds and see its guitar fretboard. Add automatic harmonies. Transpose to any key. Try any tempo.
Experience your songs: Print great-looking sheet music. Hear your songs with a professional software synthesizer – no hardware required! Use Human Playback™ to make songs sound like they’re performed by live musicians. Save as MP3 files and create audio CDs. E-mail band members, friends and fans.
Share the music: Print a professional-looking score, along with your name and song title. Add chord symbols and fretboard diagrams. Create up to six lyric verses. Transpose to any key. Add dynamics, slurs, articulations and more. Generate guitar and bass tablature automatically. Create drum grooves with notation automatically.
Highlights - Note entry with your mouse, computer keyboard or any MIDI device
- Input and play back via a MIDI device and interface
- Import/export MIDI files
- QuickStart Videos show you how to use SongWriter
- Launch Window and Setup Wizard guide you through any project
- Instruments are automatically transposed
- Transposed instruments appear as written or in concert pitch
- Slash notation
- Automatic drum grooves
- Automatic 2- and 3-voice harmonization
- Articulations (including staccatos and accents)
- Smart Shapes (including crescendos and slurs)
- Chord symbols and guitar fretboard diagrams
- Guitar and/or bass tablature
- Control the number of measures on each system
- Change clef or key/time signatures
- Up to eight staves of music
- Up to six verses of lyrics
- Repeats are easily entered and play back correctly
- Automatic music spacing
- Human Playback™ adds the nuance of live musicians
- Automatic swing playback
- Over 128 professional sounds included
- Saves audio files, including MP3, to burn audio CDs
- Beautiful, engraver-quality printed pages