QuickScore Elite Level II 2008

CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

Computers can make writing and playing music vastly easier, but software doesn't always hit the right note. QuickScore Elite is designed to help songwriters and composers put their creations on paper, using mouse clicks and keystrokes to create musical scores. Like other programs of its kind, it can be a fast way to develop musical ideas and hear the computer play them back for you--but this one isn't intuitive enough to make us want to give up a pen and paper. Several sample compositions and templates help a new user get started, but once inside a piece of music, it gets tricky. Note duration is set from the number pad, but the plus and minus buttons don't change a note's length. Notes are placed on the paper with a right-click, but a left-click is needed to navigate to a different place, no matter how far away you've moved the mouse cursor. Inserting notes in the middle of a bar in a complete piece automatically adds rests, even if a note was desired. The resulting frustration kept us from being able to recommend this software wholeheartedly.

Publisher's description

From Sion Software :

QuickScore Elite Level II is comprehensive, integrated music composition and notation software - incorporating scoring, arranging, MIDI and audio sequencing and recording. Use it to create publication-quality scores, musical content for the desktop and world wide Web, audio CDs, MP3s, and soundtracks for film, video, and games. Start faster right off the top with one of QuickScore's score templates. You've got piano, piano and solo instrument, organ, choir, band, orchestra.

Edit your music using your choice of score, piano roll, controller, event list, audio or song editors, all included and all fully integrated. Once you understand one editor, you automatically understand the others. QuickAudio, a digital audio file editor, is included. VST instruments, audio and MIDI effects are supported. Print on any Windows-supported printer. Version 2008 includes unspecified updates.

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