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MC Musiceditor has been developed with only one purpose: to make life of musicians easier when making scores. This results in a userfriendly editor which makes professional scores without requiring specific knowledge (other than musical basics)!

In other words, MC Musiceditor offers users highly intuitive ways for writing, refining, hearing or prining professional scores.

MC Musiceditor is free/open source (GPLv2 or above) music notation software (Windows/Linux under Wine). It is developed by Reinier Maliepaard, psychologist, software engineer, musician and teacher at the ArtEZ Conservatorium Netherlands, music theory and music history. Why? To make life of musicians easier when making scores. This resulted in a userfriendly editor which makes professional scores without requiring specific knowledge (other than musical basics)! In short: MC Musiceditor is the easiest way to write, refine, hear and print professional scores.

MC Musiceditor uses a modification of the ABC-language which was invented by Chris Walshaw. The ABC language is simple to use and can create music scores from basic melodies to a complex symphony score. Our modification of the ABC-language makes it, in our opinion, all easier (why? Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3). For the convenience of ABC-users, MC Musiceditor 6.0.9 and later is a hybrid version: you can use the MC Musiceditor for MCM-code (default) and ABC-code! The trigger is L:mcm_default. If found, the code will be interpreted as MCM. If L: value doesn't equal to 'mcm_default', the code will be interpreted as ABC.

Basic features:

Note entry by mouse clicks, keyboard short cuts or just typing
Chord entry by mouse clicks
Export to PDF
Export to Midi
Previewer
Pitch manipulations (transpose, pitch converter)
Format functions (score, midi)
File functions (rename, merge)