Percussion Notation – Improved in SongWriter 2010
Whether you’re an expert user customizing percussion scores, or not sure where a bass drum goes on the staff, SongWriter gets your percussion notation to look and sound perfect in no time.

New in SongWriter 2010

Easy to Enter & Automatic Playback

• Simply drag the cursor over the staff and on-screen feedback indicates whether you’re about to enter a snare, bass drum, or other percussion instrument – and displays the appropriate notehead.
• Dragging notes up and down the staff scrolls smoothly through all available instruments.
• Automatic playback configuration – your snare will playback with a snare sound – and so forth – without any manual intervention.
• Seamlessly copy music back and forth between percussion and standard notation staves.

Repeats
Adding repeats is easy and they automatically playback. Select the measures that will appear in the first ending. Select "Create first and second ending." You're done.

SongWriter automatically does the rest of the work for you:

• All numbers and brackets are automatically entered and lined up.
• Repeat numbers are automatically followed by periods.
• Backward Repeat Bars or Repeat Endings can be defined to find their targets automatically.

You can specify whether repeat text and brackets appear in all staves or just the top staff.

Create Codas
SongWriter automatically creates space, text, and symbols as well as controls playback.

Tuplets
Default positioning looks great, even when the tuplet begins with rests, and tuplets automatically reposition when notes are raised or lowered on the staff.

Tuplet brackets avoid rests and staff lines. Brackets follow the angle of the stems when on stem side and follow the angle of notes when on the note side.

It’s automatic!