Dynamics and Tempo Markings

In PrintMusic, expressions include dynamics, tempo markings, rehearsal marks, technique text like arco and pizzicato, and expressive text. Selection, entry and placement of expressions or articulation markings is quick and intuitive. Once in your score, they are easily moved.

Drag and drop expressions

Simply drag text items anywhere. Clear visual feedback instantly shows you what each selected expression is attached to, which changes dynamically as you drag . Drag expressions and rest assured they’ll always change playback too.

Drag-apply expressions to multiple staves at once.

And PrintMusic continues to apply the same collision avoidance rules so you don’t have to think about it.

Lyrics – Improved in PrintMusic 2011

Lyrics are easy to enter and instantly appear exactly as they’ll print out. PrintMusic offers unlimited verses, automatic verse numbering, and more time-saving enhancements.

Automatic Lyric Placement – Improved in PrintMusic 2011

Lyrics space themselves and the notes they’re attached to automatically so that you can have engraver-level quality without manual editing.

We’ve removed additional space at the beginning of measures:

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Punctuation, at the beginning or end of a lyric, can now be ignored for better alignment and centering of different verses.

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The first note of a melismatic passage no longer receives unnecessary space.

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Automatic Verse Numbering – New in PrintMusic 2011

Also in PrintMusic

• Special Characters – New in PrintMusic 2011 – If you don't recall the associated keystroke for a needed umlaut, grave accent or other diacritical character, you can now simply select those items by sight.
• Word extensions automatically draw to the next rest and also wrap to the next staff system. If the music expands or contracts, the extensions stretch or shrink to fit.
• Smart Hyphens – PrintMusic offers automatic hyphen placement with precision results even in tight spacing. Plus Lyric hyphens automatically wrap to the next staff system.

Percussion Notation

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

Easy to Enter

• 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.
• Seamlessly copy music back and forth between percussion and standard notation staves.

Automatic Playback

• Automatic playback configuration – your snare will playback with a snare sound – and so forth – without any manual intervention.
• Easily re-map your percussion playback without changing your score. Change playback from one instrument library to another – or to an external midi device.

Chords

Enter chord symbols by typing in their names, playing them with a MIDI keyboard, or by alternating between these two entry methods – all without visiting a menu. Simple, intuitive keystrokes make it easy to move to the next beat or measure as well as delete or edit existing chords.

• Change or delete notes without changing your chords.
• Attach chords to measures – whether or not they contain notes or rests – and have the chords appear and playback exactly how you wish.
• On-screen feedback lets you instantly see what beat or measure each chord is attached to even if you manually reposition your chords.
• Enter chords before entering notes.
• Easily create chord-only charts.
• Intuitive QWERTY and MIDI keystrokes let you move the cursor to the first beat of adjacent measures (plus it’s easy to move to adjacent beats) and vertically stack chords.
• Chords attached to whole rests or notes automatically appear at the beginning of a measure.

Chord symbols in PrintMusic featuring the Broadway Copyist hand-written font.

Slurs

Slurs automatically snap to avoid collisions – even after transpositions that cause stems to flip.

We’ve also fine-tuned slurs to ensure that edits made at high view percentages always produce the same results when viewed at 100% and when printed – and that on-screen appearance is consistently representative of high-resolution output so there are no surprises at the printer.

Repeats and Codas

Repeats are easy to add and edit and they automatically play back. Select the measures that will appear in the first ending. Select “Create first and second ending.” You’re done.

PrintMusic automatically does the rest of the work for you:

• All numbers and brackets are 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 on all staves or just the top staff.

Create Codas

PrintMusic 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!