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Versions of Pizzicato [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] We thank you for buying Pizzicato and we wish you welcome in
its new musical universe. Pizzicato 3.6 is oriented around eleven versions. Pizzicato
Professional contains every function you can find in this manual.
The other 10 versions contain only a specific set of these
functions, oriented around a more specific use of Pizzicato. Here
is a short description of each version. It is a basic version making it possible to learn music,
make exercises, write small scores (1 or 2 pages) and use
basic MIDI and audio recording features. You may also start
to learn music composition and the musical keyboard. It is basically a general score editor, up to 16 staves
(instruments). It comprises more functionalities than
Pizzicato Light, like the fast encoding of lyrics and chords,
MIDI functions, the global editing view,.... It also contains
the music course. Contains a multitude of additional functions and
possibilities, compared to the Beginner version. Among
others, it contains a whole set of innovative and intuitive
tools to help compose your own music. It opens the door of
music composition to everyone, even with little or no music
knowledge. The tools and options of this version give you a
very powerful score editor as well as many tools to refine
the interpretation of a score in MIDI, as well as many tools
to practise music composition. This is the full featured music notation version. It
contains all the tools of Pizzicato Professional oriented
toward music notation. This low cost version, as well as the next one, are
designed specifically around music composition. Contains many
tools to help the beginner to start composing his own music. Contains all the advanced intuitive composition tools of
Pizzicato Professional. You can export your composition as a
MIDI file, a musicXML file or audio file, to be used by any
other music notation or sequencer program. This low cost version is designed specifically for music
notation of drums and percussion instruments. Print and hear
your drums and percussion scores. This low cost version is designed specifically for music
notation of guitar. Print and hear your guitar scores,
including tablatures and guitar chords diagrams. This low cost version is designed specifically for music
notation for the choir. Print and hear your choir sheet
music, including lyrics. This low cost version is designed specifically for music
notation for the keyboard. Print and hear your keyboard sheet
music, including cross-staff beaming and many advanced
keyboard notation features. This low cost version is designed specifically for music
notation for one staff. Print and hear your solo sheet music,
including lyrics and chords. Fits any solo instrument written
on one staff. These versions are used under license, when you buy one of
these versions of Pizzicato. These versions also exist in
evaluation and shareware and they may be used free of charge.
Here are their limitations, compared to the licensed versions. Free version of Pizzicato Light, during one month,
starting with the installation of the program on a computer.
This version has all the features of Pizzicato Light. It
nevertheless prints the scores with a Pizzicato mosaic
background. This version follows the guide lines of Shareware
software and implies that if the user wants to continue using
it after the first month, he must buy the user license. With
this version, you may save audio files that are not longer
than one minute. It does not contain the sound library. When you install Pizzicato on your computer, whether from a
DVD or after downloading it from the Internet, all versions are
installed at the same time. In other words, these multiple
versions are in fact the same software. All free version may be
used. You can switch from on version to the other through the Program
version / Updates... item of the Options
menu or directly through the Working mode menu of the Options
menu. This can help you to try out any of the version. You may buy
multiple licenses (for instance, Pizzicato Guitar and Pizzicato
Drums) and by registering these two licenses, you will then be
able to work with these two licensed versions, as well as with
the other 9 free evaluation versions. By installing the evaluation version, you can use it also as a
reader for Pizzicato documents. If someone sends you a Pizzicato
file, you can download the evaluation version for free and if you
do not modify the document, you can print it, export to MIDI,
audio or musicXML. The user manual of Pizzicato [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] The instruction manual is designed as a progressive approach
of music, computers and Pizzicato. It is divided into a series of
lessons each one treating a particular subject. Most of these
lessons are made of a succession of practical steps that you are
asked to perform with Pizzicato. The attention is laid on a
balance between practice and theory. Each lesson covers music, computer or the use of Pizzicato.
The tables of content contain the references of each lesson.
These divisions of the manual enable you to easily adapt your
reading to your knowledge level. The professional musician will
skip the music lessons and the well-informed in computer will
skip the pages related to the computer. In a general way, the lessons follow a progressive order. If
you want to have a total control of Pizzicato, we advise you to
study them in the exact sequence. If you are initially only
interested by certain subjects of Pizzicato (music learning,
score editor, Midi sequencer, composing or accompaniment), you
can skip the lessons specific to the other fields. The
introduction of a lesson shows each time the subjects covered and
helps you estimate if the lesson is interesting for you or not. You will also find a glossary that includes most of the words
relating to music, computer or Pizzicato. Use it each time you
don't fully understand the meaning of a word. Continuing to study
the course without understanding the words can only create
problems. Therefore, use the glossary abundantly! In the text of
the lessons, the new introduced words are directly related to the
glossary by a link. When dragging the mouse over it, the cursor
becomes a hand. Click it and you get access to the definition of
the word in the glossary. According to the Pizzicato version you bought, a paper manual
contains the main lessons required to learn to used the program.
The screen documentation nevertheless includes all the lessons
for each version. According to the consulted manual, you only
access the lessons concerning the version you have. Many lessons
are common to all versions and some indicate differences between
versions. You will find for instance, a list of the Pizzicato
versions relevant to each main division of a lesson. Goals of Pizzicato [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] The design and creation of Pizzicato began in 1992. With
Pizzicato, our goal is to create a software to approach music and
computer without any preliminary knowledge of these subjects,
while offering a maximum number of musical features to the
professional. The future releases of Pizzicato will continue in
that direction. In order to be informed on the evolution of Pizzicato and to
be able to access our technical support, we kindly request you to
register yourself as an official user of Pizzicato. You can do so
by returning the registration card included in your software
package or directly register on our Web site. For any question regarding Pizzicato, you can contact our
international technical support: Arpege - Music or consult us on the Internet. Our site is: www.arpegemusic.com
Our E-mail address is support@arpegemusic.com
Announce your license number to the support staff. If your
question concerns an installation problem or is related to the
use of the program, please be in front of your computer while
calling. We will help you as best as we can. The best way is an
e-mail with full description of the problem. We usually answer
within 24 hours in working days. Do not hesitate to report to us in writing all the
improvements and new functionalities you can think of. We will
take your remarks into account for the development of future
releases of Pizzicato. Our goal is to transform Pizzicato into
your ideal work platform for computer-assisted music. To this
end, your point of view is important to us. All this being said, you are now ready to get to the heart of
the matter: music on your computer. We wish you much pleasure in
your discovery of the musical and software universe of Pizzicato! Dominique Vandenneucker Designer of Pizzicato
29, rue de l'Enseignement
4800 VERVIERS
Belgium
Tel ++32 87-55.23.60
Fax ++32 87-26.80.10