Melody Assistant - ABC Player

Melody Assistant is a shareware program for writing and composing music, with a friendly interface and many powerful features Melody Assistant is an application dedicated to music writing, printing and rendering.

Easy to use, Melody Assistant offers a user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities.

Now used by a very active community of thousands of people, it has become a favored tool for creating music.

Here are some key features of "Melody Assistant":
Complete score editor, with unlimited number of staves
Tablature calculation for miscellaneous string instruments
Embedded softsynth : does not need any hardware other than a sound card.
Digital Fx processors
Midi, Kar, MOD, S3M... import
Digital tracks (possible to import WAV, AIFF, MP3, OGG...)
Export in miscellaneous digital file formats (WAV, AIFF, MP3, OGG...)
Gregorian notation
Lute tablatures
Chord diagram library for various instruments
Enables to build custom instruments from digital recordings
Used concurrently with Virtual Singer (available separately), Karaoke and multi-voices lyrics are actually sung.
A freeware plug-in (Myriad plug-in) will enable visitors of your Web site to view, transpose, play or print your scores
Several hours of free video tutorials will make your first steps easier.
The exhaustive list of Melody Assistant capabilities is too large to be described here in a few lines.
Do not be mistaken by the unbelievably low price of this program: it is an extremely complete tool, the result of more than ten years of development.
A wide range of music symbols will enable to edit scores of great quality, including tablatures and Gregorian notation.
Score input can be performed through the mouse, computer keyboard or an external MIDI keyboard.
Melody Assistant comes with its own embedded software synthesizer (SoftSynth), which provides high quality output on basic sound cards, even without any external MIDI device, and includes hundreds of different instruments.
Melody Assistant can load and save in many formats (MIDI, WAV, AIFF, MP3, OGG, TAB, ABC...).