SongWriter from Make is software designed specifically for songwriters and is a fast, easy way to create and print professional-quality sheet music.
The software allows the songwriter to import and export MIDI files, enter music with using a mouse, computer keyboard or MIDI device and to create music with up to eight staves.
Professional looking scores can be printed and a built-in synthesizer allows the user to preview their creations and save the audio as MP3 files for CD creation.
Melodies
Clicking notes onto the staff generates an audio pitch and dragging them up and down allows the songwriter to select the required pitches
Playing from a MIDI keyboard makes the music appear instantly on the computer monitor
MIDI files can be imported and exported and lyrics added with multiple verses
Arrangements
Type a chord name to hear how it sounds and see its guitar fretboard
Arrangements can be transposed to any key and any tempo can be tried out
Adds automatic harmonies
Songs
Songs can be auditioned with the included software synthesizer - no hardware required other than a sound card for output
"Human Playback" can be used to make songs sound like they're performed by live musicians
Print professional looking sheet music
Songs can be saved as MP3 files
General
Add chord symbols and fretboard diagrams
Create up to six lyric verses
Add dynamics, slurs, articulations and more
Generates guitar and bass tablature automatically
Creates drum grooves with notation automatically