mcmusiceditor.com - the best free music notation software

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What is MC Musiceditor?
MC Musiceditor is a free music notation programm (Windows). It has been developed with only one purpose: to make life of musicians easier when making scores. This results in a userfriendly editor which makes professional scores without requiring specific knowledge (other than musical basics)! In short: MC Musiceditor is the easiest way to write, refine, hear and print professional scores.

MC Musiceditor uses a modification of the ABC-language which was invented by Chris Walshaw. The ABC language is simple to use and can create music scores from basic melodies to a complex symphony score. And as Guido Gonzato (abcplus.sourceforge.net) already stated, it may surpasse other good notation languages like GNU Lilypond or MusiXTeX. Our modification of the ABC-language makes it, in our opinion, all easier (why? Part 1 - Part 2).

Current release
Release: 6.0.6 (03 September 2010)

Why should you use MC Musiceditor?

It is very easy to use
It has a very fast note-entry: you can make a score very quick (well, at least as fast as typing a text in your texteditor)
The scriptbased editor enables you to manipulate data with a great ease
It has an external previewer, that refreshes itself constantly. So you see what you have composed!
The sheet music (PDF) is of a high quality (Example: Magnificat (2004) of Reinier Maliepaard)
The software is donateware, so free to use and free of charge. But users are encouraged to make a small monetary donation (about 1,50 euro): click here

Basic features

Note entry by mouse clicks, keyboard short cuts or just typing
Chord entry by mouse clicks
Export to PDF
Export to Midi
Previewer
Pitch manipulations (transpose, pitch converter)
Format functions (score, midi)
File functions (rename, merge)

Development
The main developer of MC Musiceditor is Reinier Maliepaard, psychologist, software engineer, musician and teacher at the ArtEZ Conservatorium Netherlands (music theory and music history). MC Musiceditor is based on a modification of the ABC-language of Chris Walshaw. I want to thank

Chris Walshaw (ABC language)
Michael Methfessel (abc2ps)/Jef Moine (abcm2ps, included in installation package, moinejf.free.fr)
Aladdin Enterprises (gswin32c)
James Allwright/Seymour Shlien (abc2midi, abc2abc included in installation package)
Krzysztof Kowalczyk (SumtraPDF, included in installation package, http://blog.kowalczyk.info)
Hans-Peter Wickern (plugins, www.hpwsoft.de)
NeoSoft Corporation (RAD, www.neosoftware.com)
Axialis Software (icons, www.axialis.com)

for their great contributions. Without them MC Musiceditor couldn't have been built.

I like to thank all users for their mostly useful insights and suggestions! However, I like to mention my students from the ArtEZ-Conservatorium, Netherlands in particular, thank you for your unconditional support in this project!