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Feels like Finale
Simple Entry and Speedy Entry, the Main Tool Palette, Page View and Scroll View: years of habits still work.
Music notation editor
Write, hear and print your music.
Maestro is a music notation editor designed for people coming from Finale: enter notes quickly with the keyboard or MIDI, listen, and print score and parts.
beta 0.9.9Free, with no limitations!For Mac and Windows
Opens and saves
- Finale .musx
- MusicXML
- MIDI
- M4A and WAV
What it does
Everything you need to go from an idea to a printed score.
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Opens your files
Finale scores (.musx), MusicXML and MIDI become Maestro documents, ready to edit.
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Hear it as you write
Playback with General MIDI sounds, mixer, swing and metronome; export to M4A or WAV, including backing tracks without your part.
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Score and parts
Automatic layout, parts with cue notes, guitar and bass tablature, print-ready PDFs.
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Made for gigging
Setlists as a single PDF or audio, tuner, tap tempo and a visual metronome.
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Helps you arrange
Analyze chords, harmonize a melody for a horn section, check instrument ranges.
Up close
See Maestro at work.
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Every part, ready to print
From score to parts in one click: each instrument has its own layout, with multimeasure rests, rehearsal marks, dynamics and cue notes.
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Maestro writes the chord symbols
Analyze Chords reads the notes of the whole band and writes chord symbols above the melody: a starting point to arrange, reharmonize or improvise.
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Start in a minute
Pick a template (jazz combo, big band, string quartet, SATB choir and more), change the instruments as you like and start writing.
MIDI keyboard
You play, it becomes a score.
Plug in a MIDI keyboard: write note by note with Speedy Entry, or record as you play and Maestro transcribes it, even with both hands.
Where music happens
Play, write, listen back.
On the sofa, on the living room rug or in the rehearsal room: write the idea down as soon as it comes, with your computer keyboard, and hear it right away.
- Windows: toolbar like the Mac's, next to the top palette, customizable with a right-click
- Windows: the status bar shows the active layer, the visible page and a zoom slider
- Windows: more polished settings, with icons on the panes, volume sliders, color swatches and tooltips
- Windows: pinch to zoom on the touchpad and touch screen, around the point between the fingers, and two-finger sideways scrolling
- Fixed on Windows: disabled checkboxes are easy to read in the dark appearance
Ready to write?
Maestro is free, for Mac and Windows. Download it and open your first score in a minute.
