I had my wife look at this one as she is a music teacher and uses Finale Notepad and Finale Songwriter daily preparing arrangements, compositions and transcriptions. She took a look at their website descriptions and thinks their $19.95 price is fair for this Note 7 version but it is nowhere near the professional quality of Finale. Their website claims toptenreview first place gold award but it looks like they got a third place bronze award. Which is certainly very good but no cigar as advertised and the review was for their $99 Mastero 7 version not the Note 7 version offered today. She thinks this would be great software for the hobbyist but not the best choice for more serious professional musicians and believes that it would have been much better had they offered their Mastero 7 version to GAOTD. Her comments are based only on a review of the website descriptions/screenshots and toptenreview comments as she does not want me to download this GAOTD for her. Just thought I would pass her comments along. Thanks GOTD and DG Software.

aswegohomestead  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+58)

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The free alternative - MuseScore (http://musescore.org/) runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS, has more friendly input interface and it's an opensource!

dimon  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+47)

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It would be nice if this site still used its Publisher link as a link to previous offerings by the same software publisher, when applicable. It can be helpful to see comments from prior postings as these sometimes tell of any issues with the software.

Here's a link to the last time this software was offered:
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/magicscore-note-7/

The version offered today is 7.285 (previous 7.084.

For those looking for a key, there is no key. Once you install the software, close it, and run the Activation. When you open the software and click About, you will see that it is Licensed to Giveawayoftheday. If you had the previous version, you may not need to run Activate as was my case.

Justine  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+28)

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Loaded,ran setup and then activated with no problems on Win 7 32 bit. Many samples are included in the Magicscore directory. Works with the existing sound card and speakers. I then connected my MIDI keyboard, Magicscore detected it. I selected one of the included samples and it worked. Then I selected one my MIDI files and it loaded and displayed the score and played it on my MIDI keyboard. It also reads from your MIDI keyboard to the Magicscore software. I have only used it for a short time this morning but it looks like the real deal. If you want to listen to MIDI's, write music or modify your existing MIDI files download this giveaway and give it a try. FYI I have dual monitors and the program opens in my left monitor (number 2) for some reason, my right monitor is number one, not a big deal. The homepage has more information about the software. Looks like a winner. Thanks GOTD and DG Software.

Regards,
Rich

Rich M  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+27)

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The decription above doesn't tell much.

The Homepage doesn't tell about functions of "MagicScore Note" or differences to other variants. They tell it costs $19.95 compared to the best variant MagicScore Maestro 7.x for $79.95. It seams to be a very restricted special version for GOTD-users sort of appetizer.

As prizes for MagicScore Score(MIDI) To WAV Converter (2.01 MB) and MagicScore Virtual Piano (4.4 MB) perhaps they are free to use.

Sorry, no time left at this hour!

Robert from Germany  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+24)

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