Product Comparisons
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General
Feature |
Overture |
Score Writer |
Overview |
Flexible, Comprehensive and Easy, Overture is great for more demanding composers, arrangers, music educators, and students—those who want the flexibility to create more complex orchestral, band, choral, lead sheet, and tablature scores, and do it quickly. |
Simple and Straightforward, Score Writer is appropriate for people new to notation and composition, and whose needs are relatively simple and straight forward. It covers lead sheet work to small ensemble scores easily. |
Setup Wizard |
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Number of Templates |
Over 40 |
Over 20 |
Number of Tracks |
128 |
16 |
Number of Voices per Track |
8 |
4 |
Import/Export MIDI Files |
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Import/Export MusicXML Files |
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Import/Export Graphic Images |
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Built in Hand Written Fonts |
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Support 3rd Party Music Fonts |
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Customization of Libraries |
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Simultaneously extract multiple parts to disk. |
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Entering & Editing
Feature |
Overture |
Score Writer |
Enter Notes with Computer Keyboard |
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Enter Notes in Step Time |
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Enter Notes in Real Time |
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Number of Tool Palettes |
12 |
9 |
Cross staff beaming |
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Cross bar beaming |
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Feathered beaming |
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Composer tools |
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Explode track |
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Automatic Guitar tablature |
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Customizable tablature with complete set of professional tablature performance markings |
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Choral “shape” notes |
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Slash notes (rhythmic notation) |
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Drum notation (control over which note heads display on which lines) |
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Multiple sets of customizable drum notation styles stored in libraries |
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On Score MIDI Editing |
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Track List View |
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Graphic View for MIDI Editing |
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Text & Markings
Features |
Overture |
Score Writer |
Lyric Verses |
8 |
4 |
Guitar Frames |
Basic and custom |
Basic |
Chord Symbols |
Basic and custom |
Basic |
Rehearsal Marks |
Basic and custom |
Basic |
Staff Group Names |
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Compound Time Signatures |
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Hollywood Lines |
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SMPTE Time Code |
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Score Layout
Features |
Overture |
Score Writer |
Linear View |
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Scale Score Size |
20% to 150% |
Small, Medium, and Large |
Custom Engraving Settings |
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Ossia Staves |
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Hide Individual Staves |
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Page and System Breaks |
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Split and Combine Systems |
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Codas, Segnos, etc. |
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Playback & Record
Features |
Overture |
Score Writer |
VST/AU Support |
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Record Filter |
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Video Playback |
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Export to Audio |
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Custom Per Track Dynamic Values |
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Transport |
Start, Stop, Start from Beginning, Record, Loop |
Start, Stop, Start from Beginning, Record |
Record Options |
Split Point and Auto Transcribe Automatically add Staccato and Tenuto markings |
Split Point and Auto Transcribe |
Play Style |
As recorded, as written, in swing |
As recorded, as written, in swing |