Because computer keyboards don't make a good fit with music the keys have special editing functions which take time to learn. Fortunately you're aided by seven excellent tutorials taking you from initial installation to the professional music notation features. Along the way you'll learn various speed entry techniques. For example, PrintMusic can even import a standard MIDI file and export to sequencing programs. The final result is a fast and flexible system for creating and editing professional quality sheet music--a must for any composer. --Steve Patient

Beware   July 27, 2008

PrintMusic - Value for Money!   April 21, 2004

As a musician and parent I'm thrilled with this. It deserves 5 stars and more. It's a brilliant piece of software for the money. As a cat owner and shopper however . . . !


Highly unusable...   March 7, 2004
  27 out of 37 found this review helpful

I am very surprised at the positive reviews this product has gathered. I have found it very hard to use, inflexible and frustrating. Here are a few things to bear in mind:
1) Entering music from a MIDI instrument
If you are hoping to be able to play in music using a keyboard and have it transcribed, forget it. This software transcribes very poorly (about 10 years ago I used to use Notator running on a old Atari ST, and it was much more accurate). It cannot even, for example, cope with entering chords where the notes move anything other than homophonically (ie all parts move at the same time). Nor is it able to cope with legato playing - you have to play in a very stilted way to get anywhere close to what you are expecting.
2) Editing notes
You have to remember very obtuse combinations of keyboard and mouse clicks to do stuff. For example, to select a note, you have to hold down control on the keybaord before selecting it. Why? I just want to click on stuff and move it around...
3) Usability
Speaking both as both a musician and software designer, this really is very poor. Simply actions take a lot of clicks, there are modal dialogs which should be floating pallets, additional menus appear in the menu bar making them move around when you select certain buttons, basic features such as using the mouse scroll wheel to scroll up and down and context sensitive menus simply aren't implemented and so on and so on.

Avoid this software. It is not worth the money.


A Touch Of Music   November 14, 2003
  13 out of 14 found this review helpful

A touch of music is in my view a perfect title for this musical tool which at the touch of a keyboard or mouse opens up the world of music to people like me, who until now were unable to read or write music with any degree of accuracy.
Since obtaining Printmusic earlier this year after joining a male voice choir, I have (with the aid of print music) managed to learn with some confidence, the words and music to something like sixty different pieces of music simply by building up the pieces note by note. This is a painstaking way of achieving complete pieces of music but very rewarding, particularly when your skill with the programme develops and you are able to use the mass mover tool to speed up the entry of repeated sections of music, to hear beutiful harmonies develop under your finger tips gives a pleasure which is difficult to explain. The one thing that I think is required to improve this Musical Miracle, is a simple and easy way to scan sheet music, this is the only area where I have been unsuccseful.


Fantastic   May 27, 2003
  13 out of 17 found this review helpful

I bought this on a limb? I did not really have the money but I thought it could help, and it did that, and more. I am a young composer and this one product has taught me more than another four or five other products put together would. I use it as an idea gatherer, but it can be used for so so much more. I am pleased I spent the money on it; I probably have not made a wiser purchase since.