Every family
Around 60 instruments, 10 families.
Each ships ready to use, with the correct clef, transposition, and staff count. Add a part and start writing.
Keyboards
Piano, harpsichord, celesta, organ, accordion, on a two-staff grand staff.
Strings
Bowings, harmonics, open strings, snap pizzicato, thumb position.
Fretted and plucked
Guitar, bass, ukulele, mandolin, banjo, with tablature.
Woodwinds
Piccolo through bassoon and the saxophone family, correctly transposing.
Brass
Trumpets, horn in F, trombones, euphonium, tuba, proper transpositions.
Voices
Soprano, alto, tenor, and bass, with full lyric support.
Pitched percussion
Glockenspiel to timpani, tubular bells, steel drums.
Unpitched percussion
Drum kit and individual voices, per-instrument notehead shapes.
Electronic
Synthesizer voices for modern scores.
Folk and world
Traditional voices from beyond the orchestra.
I.
The grand staff
Keyboard, harp, and mallet parts on a proper two-staff grand staff, with cross-staff beaming, all 3 sustain pedals, and harp pedal diagrams. An on-screen piano enters pitches by ear and lights the sounding notes during playback.
II.
Tablature
6-line guitar tablature, and staves sized to any string count, with engraver-drawn fret numbers. Hammer-ons, pull-offs, taps, and bends, standard tunings for every fretted instrument, and a dual-staff layout pairing notation over tab.
III.
Voice and harmony
Lyrics with multiple verses, hyphenation, elisions, and extender lines. Chord symbols with optional fretboard diagrams, and figured bass with stacked figures and accidentals.