This innovative software tool allows you to create musical compositions using your computer. Once your composition is ready, you can save or print it, according to your needs. The program is especially useful for music-related professionals such as composers, teachers or students. It provides you will all the necessary tools to create complex music scores as well.
With a simple user interface, this tool is an intuitive and easy-to-use utility for both musicians and music students. Whenever you decide to create a new score, the program will offer you a blank staff which includes a default clef, key signature, and time notation, which you can change according to your particular needs. Besides, the program offers you a palette with all the notes and rests to add them to your composition. To achieve this, you need to select the desired symbol and position it into the staff, in the appropriate place. Some of the available notes are whole/semibreve, half/minim, quarter/crotchet and eighth/quaver. Moreover, this palette can be turned to show symbols for dynamics, which you can also add to your musical composition. Mezzo-forte, forte, fortissimo, and fortississimo are good examples of those dynamics symbols.
Crescendo Music Notation Editor does not stop there – it allows you to perform many additional actions. For example, you can configure the page size and orientation and the stave size for printing, you can play back your composition and listen to it, or insert texts as title or lyrics for your score. You can also export your composition as a MIDI file. more
Excellent simple program to create accurate MIDI renditions of MP3 audio files.
It allows you to practice, learn and improve playing your musical instrument.
Comments (6)
I am writing this letter not as a mere dissatisfied user, but as someone who is absolutely livid at the sheer incompetence, instability, and outright user-hostility embedded in your product. Crescendo purports to be a music notation software—what a laughable misnomer. A more accurate description would be a glorified notepad masquerading as a professional tool, riddled with bugs, unintuitive interfaces, and limitations so absurd they seem designed to insult one's intelligence.
Where do I begin? Crashes are frequent—sometimes without warning, sometimes conveniently just after hours of unsaved work. The undo feature is so unreliable it's practically a gamble. The playback function stutters, distorts rhythms, and occasionally ignores articulations altogether, as if the software has the gall to rewrite music theory on a whim. And let’s not even discuss the grotesquely amateurish MIDI output—it sounds like a drunk robot attempting Chopin.
The layout system is a nightmare. Measures float unpredictably across systems, dynamics overlap with notes, and slurs attach themselves to the wrong pitches with the elegance of a toddler scribbling with crayons. I have spent more time correcting your software’s messes than actually composing, which defeats the entire purpose of digital notation.
Furthermore, your support documentation is laughably shallow, and your customer service feels like shouting into a void. I cannot fathom how a product this broken is marketed to composers and musicians as a serious tool.
I expected Crescendo to facilitate creativity, not throttle it with frustration. It is an insult to those of us who value precision, musicality, and our time. I am uninstalling this atrocity and will make it my personal crusade to ensure no fellow musician wastes their energy on it.
Sincerely, Your unsatisfied user.
You can't write more than one part in one staff. That's really annoying. If you improve that, the program would be perfect.