All the tools you need to compose your own music

Professional Pizzicato

Your Ultimate Music Laboratory

For Windows & Mac OS X

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Everything you need to write your own music, from a soloist to a full orchestra.

Never before seen - Intuitive composition tools make music composition available to everyone.

Music composition is not only notation - Discover audio editing, sound creation, virtual synthesizers and a high quality sound library.

MIDI sequencing and effects.

An extensive and easy to follow tutorial helps you mastering every aspect of Pizzicato.

All the tools you need in one software package, for your convenience.

A breakthrough in music software - Nothing else compares to Pizzicato.

Pizzicato may be used as a stand-alone software or as a companion tool to any other music software.

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Pizzicato provides all the tools needed for drum notation.

Note heads, staves with 1 to 16 lines, the percussion clef and MIDI mapping of instruments are combined to create nice looking drum parts.

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Entering Music

Page Layout

Playback Of The Score

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Just like you create a letter with a word processor, Pizzicato gives you the tools to write, print and hear your music, whether for the soloist, the band, the choir or the full symphonic orchestra.

You can also play or sing, at any tempo, while listening to the score, to practice or improve your rhythm.

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Whether you are a beginner or professional musician, Pizzicato offers you an easy and user-friendly approach to creating music with a computer.

The music course and software tutorials do not require any music or computer knowledge. They are surprisingly simple to read and apply.

Pizzicato offers free and unlimited technical support through the Internet or email for any question you may have while installing or using Pizzicato.

The technical support is provided by the editor of the software. This guarantees clear, efficient and customized answers within 24 hours during working days.

There is also a users forum, a frequently asked questions or FAQ, as well as tutorial videos available 24/7.

? You can enter the music with combination's of mouse clicks, tool palettes, keystrokes, the virtual piano keyboard, the guitar fret board window, or directly through a MIDI keyboard, step by step or in real time.

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While entering or editing the notes, you can hear them.

You can play the full score or any part of it, starting at any measure. You can even play a section in a loop and still continue to edit the score while Pizzicato is playing it.

You can watch the notes colored as they are played.

The playback takes into account the tempo, accents, nuances, and special effects.

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The music notation is automatically spaced correctly. You can then zoom in and adjust any aspect of the music notation at any time.

You can add accidentals, tuplets, chords as well as many other standard or custom symbols and hear their influence on the playback of the notes.

You can copy/paste/transpose measures. You can use and manipulate up to 8

voices per measure.

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This view is designed to provide you with the most advanced editing tools of Pizzicato, all in one window, for your convenience.

You can edit the music notation directly, edit the notes graphically as on a piano roll, you can draw effect curves to create a customized crescendo and have access to most controllers and tools.

You can synchronize audio tracks, select virtual instruments and edit the chord progression and associated scales.

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Adjust the page layout, customize the number of measures for each staff or more generally, layout the music as you want it to look on the page.

Add page and measure numbers, brackets, instrument names, bars and repeats.

You can even optimize orchestral scores by automatically hiding empty staves.

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You can select the staves to display and for each one you can choose the editor(s) you need (notation, graphic, effects,...).

A set of 10 memories can be used to store different configurations and switch between them as you work on different parts of your composition.

? The clef, time and key signatures may be specified or changed anywhere in the score.

? You can add chord symbols, up to 8 lines of lyrics as well as free text blocks.

Music Notation

? You can write guitar tablature or TAB, chord diagrams and even use an on screen guitar fret board to enter the notes.

Other Notation Features

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Using this entry mode, you can select the rhythmic value of a note just by moving the mouse to the right for longer duration or to the left for shorter duration.

You can encode simple music with only the mouse. There is no need to select tools on a palette or to use the keyboard.

A similar mode is used to enter the notes of an existing chord progression, on one or more staves. A simple but powerful note entry mode to translate chord symbols into real notes.

Fast Entry Of Notes andChords

Audio Tracks

High Quality Sound Library

Create Your Own Sounds

File Formats

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You can add one or more audio tracks and synchronize them with the score.

You can record audio tracks to add an acoustic instrument, voices or sound effects.

With the audio editor window, you can directly edit audio tracks. Operations like copy, paste, mix, echo, fade in & out, insert, remove, time inversion, spectral analysis and synthesis, and many others are available to edit the sound itself.

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Pizzicato includes a licensed version of TMthe Papelmedia Sound Library, with 1.2

GB of audio samples for a realistic sound rendering of your music.

You can assign these sounds to any staff or measure of your composition.

You can also import samples from the Internet as SoundFont files. You can modify them and use them in your music composition.

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You can create a standard MIDI file from any Pizzicato score and import MIDI files from the Internet or from any other music software and edit or print the score.

You can also import and export MusicXML files to exchange music scores with other music software.

Pizzicato offers you many tools not available anywhere else. Using these file formats to exchange information, you can use Pizzicato as a companion tool to many other music programs.

You can export a page or a few measures to a graphic file (BMP) and use this image in a word processor or graphic software.

You can create an audio WAV file from any Pizzicato score, using the full quality of the integrated library or imported SoundFont samples. You can create an audio file for the full composition and also a separate audio file for each instrument.

You can use these audio files to create a CD with your music compositions.

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With Pizzicato, you can also express your creativity and imagination by creating new sounds to play your music.

You can construct new sounds with a modular synthesizer, by assembling building blocks.

Drag and drop the sounds directly into the score and hear the resulting playback.

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The Musical Desktop

Melody

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Pizzicato offers you a musical desktop on which you can easily and efficiently organize a music composition.

Drag your preferred instruments directly into the score, including percussion instruments.

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One of the intuitive composition principles is to drag and drop scores made out of one or several measures to construct a full composition.

Each score may contain melodies, chords, accompaniments, instruments or effects, any of which can be combined.

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Combine, play and edit these music building blocks and create the first structure of your musical composition.

The result may be edited or customized in the score notation editor or in the graphic note editor.

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By playing an instrument or singing, you can find a melody that may become the starting point of your composition.

The Pizzicato libraries provide you with numerous note sequences and rhythm sequences that you can try and combine.

The possible combination's are countless and will give you raw melodic material which you can adapt.

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Composing music consists of finding an idea and structuring this idea into a full music composition.

Pizzicato gives you a series of tools to find an idea and to develop this idea. It DOES NOT compose for you! You are the composer.

These tools help you explore musical possibilities with unmatched ease.

At every step of a music composition, you must make choices that will finally produce a unique composition.

With Pizzicato, you make these choices with various practical tools that help you to sort out the possibilities by listening.

Your choice is made according to your personal taste and to the atmosphere or the feelings you want your music to express.

These tools form an intuitive composition environment.

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The Score Arranger

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This function will adapt a musical structure to match the harmony (chord progression) of your music.

By designing a simple structure of one measure, Pizzicato will adapt it to the harmony of your composition.

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The arranger works directly on the score. You can switch between the original and arranged versions.

When you find a melody, you can do a chord analysis and add prepared structures like a string quartet or add secondary voices with rhythmic preferences. Pizzicato will arrange the score to match the chords.

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? It becomes easy to design a melody on a chord accompaniment, because the note colors help you to select the best notes. You can test and try many possibilities by moving the notes or changing the chords and seeing the note colors being adapted.

? Starting with an existing melodic idea, you can work out several variations, based on simple rules that you can control, again multiplying the possible choices.

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With an existing chord progression, you can intuitively design a melody.

Pizzicato can display the score so that the notes being part of the current chord are displayed , the notes of the associated scale are displayed and the other notes are displayed

With this system, are the strongest notes for building the melody,

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You can intuitively draw the shape of a melody on the staff and Pizzicato will transform it into a melody that matches that shape and the existing chords and scales.

Similarly, you can click to cut or lengthen the note durations and structure the rhythm of the melodic line.

? Listen to your composition while selecting chords and hear your music being adapted to fit the chords you select.

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Use the many individual instrumental measures found in the Pizzicato music libraries. Combine them in a few clicks into your composition and hear the resulting accompaniment, including drums.

Pizzicato also provides prepared styles and variations that you can drag in the score and combine into your composition.

You can also import style files from the Internet, with the Yamaha style format (.sty extension) or extract a style from a MIDI file and use it in your composition.

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Pizzicato has thousands of prepared chord progressions that you can use and adapt according to your personal taste.

Navigate inside several hundreds of available to you in the

Pizzicato music libraries and create chord progressions intuitively.

Harmonic spaces consist of chords that can be sequenced harmoniously.

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that can match that melody. As there are often many possibilities, a

multiple choice is suggested for each chord, and you can select the one you prefer by listening.

to find the possible chords

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