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Perfect Notation
With capella you can instantly create complete scores ...
No other notation program will take you by the hand and gently guide you towards your first own score in the manner in which capella does it. There is no need to be fully computer literate - you just follow your musical imagination and capella does the rest. Within no time you will have completed your first score sheet.
capella is everywhere
In the country of Beethoven, Bach and Reger, capella has become the de facto standard for notation editors amongst musicians from all walks of life.
Impressive range of features
For a detailed list see below.
Unique concept
While beginners will immediately be able to record their creative ideas, professionals will continue to enjoy the immense depth of features and possibilities.
Professional print results
... as good as they came from traditional notation craftsmen.
Affordability
capella's value for money is unsurpassed.
Notation solutions for professionals and hobbyists
Five easy ways to enter notes [More...].
PC Keyboard — quick and easy
Use your PC keyboard like a typewriter, i.e. the C key on the keyboard is used to notate the note C. You can listen to the notes as they are entered. In combination with another key you can change note value, octave and accidental.
Real-time and step-entry notation using your Midi keyboard
While you play on your Midi keyboard, capella creates the score. You can enter in real-time or step-entry mode. With real-time entry you play a polyphonic piece in the correct rhythm. The quantizing capability of capella will iron out minor irregularities. One more mouse click and your recording is confirmed: Your ideas have been set as a score.
Mouse notation
Simply place the notes onto the staff using the mouse.
MousePiano
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Simply click on the MousePiano's keys to enter notes. Here too, notes are entered lightning fast using the built-in note entry aids ("zebra-crossing mode", shortcut key).
File import
capella imports type 0 and 1 Midi files. Also, it imports MusicXML files as created by Sibelius, Finale and others. They contain the entire score design.
Notation fonts and styles
capella offers you six different notation fonts from renaissance music to jazz. You can also save your own new fonts or variations and "crossbreeds" taken from existing fonts in separate styles. Style templates can be individually allocated to your scores.
Given that capella lets you present notes without stems and/or without heads, those who like experimenting, will find almost no limits to the possibilities available in defining individual notations.
Move the mouse over the clefs.
Listening and playback
capella supports the unique capella-tune technology, putting you in complete control of capella's tonal palette. Ornaments like trills, dynamic gradations, support for capella Vienna orchestra, echo effects and playback according to swing or Waltz rhythms are all reflected during playback.
Read more about capella-tune.
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Adding graphics to the score
Graphic objects are selected from pre-defined pallets using the mouse. Experts can define their own individual pallets from the symbols available in capella's character set.
Welcome to the graphics gallery!
A graphics gallery can be created for and attached to each score. The gallery stores your regularly used graphic objects. capella comes complete with several interesting galleries that contain special notations, guitar frets and much more.
Versatile graphic objects
All graphic objects can be scaled, stretched and compressed and can be placed in front or behind the notes. This way watermarks covering the entire page can be placed underneath the score.
capella file format is the standard
Because more than 300,000 registered users are already working with capella, capella's file format has become the standard as far as notation programs are concerned. Indeed, you will find thousands of free scores in private collections across the Internet.
Import & Export (I)
capella uses its own CapXML format and imports and exports MusicXML files. This feature facilitates import of score sheets from Finale® or Sibelius® while maintaining their layout as far as it complies with MusicXML specifications.
Import & Export (II)
capella can read standard Midi files (format 0 and 1) and write format 1. This means that the entire Midi world is available as both source and target for all your score printing and music publishing needs.
Import & Export (III): Graphics
You can insert any graphic object or image that has been created using other Windows applications into your capella score via the copy-and-paste function. Conversely, you can export the capella score (also in color) using any of the common graphic file formats.
Import & Export (IV): Web-Publishing
As far as your capella scores are concerned, the Internet is only a few mouse clicks away. capella's web site export does not require you to have any knowledge of coding web sites. Click the icon on the toolbar and within no time you have a completely formatted web page displaying your score and with an embedded player. Visitors to your web site can therefore listen to your work however large it might be. Automatically embedded links allow the visitor to flip through all pages of a large score.
Don't buy a pig in a poke!
Form your own impression: Download the current demo version here and test the software to your heart's content. This demo version has no time limit and is only restricted in a few functions (e.g. file save).
Facts: capella - an overview [show list of main features...]
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| List of main features | ||
| Comfortable score wizard | ||
| Number of notes or chords per stave: unlimited | ||
| Number of lines per stave (usually: 5) | 5 | 1-11 |
| Number of polyphonic voices per stave | 3 | 6 |
| Number of staves per system | 12 | 999 |
| Number of systems per score: unlimited | ||
| Small and large staves in the same score/system | ||
| Free toolbar positioning, symbols also appear in menus | ||
| Multiple split score windows. Page layout view (fully editable) in all magnifications | ||
| Powerful zoom function. An unlimited number of pages can be displayed next to each other | ||
| Slur, beam, tie and brace smoothing function | ||
| Numerous keyboard short cuts for almost all menu and dialog instructions; this makes work efficient and ergonomic for all including visually impaired users. | ||
| Split-second movement across large scores using the navigation center | ||
| Undo and redo function, using list with clear instruction descriptions. Number of undo and redo steps: | 1 | 999 |
| Note values: Breve note to 1/128 | ||
| MusicXML import (i.e. import files from/to Finale® or Sibelius®) | ||
| Midi import (Format Midi 0 and 1), Midi Export (Format Midi 1) | ||
| MusicXML export: capella files can be used by Finale® and Sibelius® users | ||
| Search function for finding melodies in the score | ||
| Search for rhythms independent of melody | ||
| Integrated programming language (Python) to create additional features as plug ins | ||
| Easy to use ready-made plug ins, downloadable free from this web site | ||
| Future-proof data interface on XML basis | ||
| Capturing notes | ||
| Note entry via PC keyboard | ||
| Keyboard enter-and-listen function (listen to notes as you type them) | ||
| Midi real-time entry and Midi step entry | ||
| Notes entered directly into the score using the mouse | ||
| Mouse piano (size adjustable and fully customizable) | ||
| Support for entering and playing back percussion instruments using sound mapping | ||
| Note entry using piano roll with metronome and comfortable quantizing option | ||
| Transposition | ||
| Transpose the entire score with one mouse click | ||
| Transpose with or without key change: chromatic, true to interval and enharmonic transposition; diatonic shifting | ||
| Transposing: Individual parts of the score with automatic key signature function; all transposing functions with or without key change | ||
| Transposition of individual or multiple staves across the entire score (the other staves remain untouched) | ||
| Transposing instruments reflected during playback | ||
| Playback | ||
| All sound cards, 128 voices, each voice can be selected | ||
| Playback recognizes all performance marks (trills, upper mordents, mordents or turns) | ||
| Standard pitch a' can be tuned | ||
| Automatic scrolling during playback; can be deactivated | ||
| Playback with any historic tuning, also pure adaptive tuning (Hermode tuning) | ||
| Tuned for perfect collaboration with capella Vienna orchestra | ||
| Playback reflects repeat signs: dal segno, al coda, etc. | ||
| Playback reflects user's own playback instructions: pizzikato, col legno, stopped, etc. | ||
| VST host: Support of VST samplers | ||
| Tempo change option within the score at any note; smooth transitions, tempo recording with slide control | ||
| Score editing | ||
| Automatic beaming and beam slope function | ||
| Individually adjustable beam slope and stem length | ||
| Sub-group beams | ||
| Notation in adjacent staves, beams stretch across staves | ||
| Automatic chord symbols (with analysis of chord) | ||
| Automatic Lead-Sheet generation | ||
| Split system at any point in the score | ||
| Automatic wrap around (score division with optimized or selected number of bars per system) | ||
| Clefs, time signature, key signature, bar lines etc. changeable at any point in the score, including single staves in the current system | ||
| Course of bar lines freely adjustable including bar lines in the gap between staves | ||
| Automatic part extraction | ||
| Irregular division (duplet, triplet … up to 15-tuplet) | ||
| Diverse range of note heads, stems and heads without stems | ||
| Forced accidentals (incl. in brackets), suppress accidentals | ||
| Appoggiatura and cue notes | ||
| Tremolo bars in note stems | ||
| Edit individual note heads in chord (accidental, head shape, mute during playback etc). | ||
| Automatic bar lines, fixed bar lines, individual-design bar lines | ||
| Staccato, Tenuto, Staccatissimo, hard/soft attack, normal/strong accent, etc. | ||
| Definition of own articulation signs | ||
| Cue notes, grace notes, place holders | ||
| Multiple bar rests in various styles (traditional rest, etc.) | ||
| Split multi-voiced staves into separate staves within same system | ||
| Guitar tablature | ||
| Automatic horizontal spacing of notes can be overridden, e.g. for proportional spacing | ||
| Basso continuo function | ||
| Rest management: merge rests, fill staves with rests | ||
| Score synthesis: Combine several individual voices into one score | ||
| Convert chord letters to chord notes and vice versa | ||
| Sequence of staves in system can be changed at any time; ripple effect throughout the entire score | ||
| Abbreviations, tremolo bars and many more special functions available at a click of the mouse | ||
| Memo function: Blocks of notes (sections from the score) can be saved as separate file | ||
| Position two systems side by side: perfect for coda notation and cramped spaces | ||
| Text, symbols, graphics | ||
| Text import from other Windows applications | ||
| Graphic import function from other Windows applications | ||
| Text objects in RTF format with unrestricted character and paragraph formatting feature | ||
| 120 musical symbols available to insert directly from symbol pallets | ||
| Graphic grouping feature | ||
| Free positioning of graphics, including in front or behind notes; sequence selection of overlapping graphics | ||
| Fret Wizard for guitar, banjo etc. | ||
| Symbols can be transposed as you like (chord descriptions, frets, figures etc.) | ||
| Graphic objects: line, ellipse, polygon, repeat box, triplet bracket, sloping wavy line etc. | ||
| Wide ranging design options including dotted slurs | ||
| Administration of personalized graphic symbols using the gallery | ||
| Graphics export: Windows meta file (part of monitor display): Success depends on how far the target application supports this format | ||
| Graphics export: Part of monitor display, current system or entire page; supported by almost all Windows applications: also includes pre-printing stage for all platforms (Mac etc.); supports web publishing | ||
| HTML-Export: One-click procedure to create web-document; select from different styles, include embedded player | ||
| Layout and printing | ||
| System brackets (curly brace and/or straight brackets), barlines across staves within system | ||
| System justification for each system separately including for the entire score | ||
| Footers, headers, page numbering | ||
| Unrestricted formatting feature for footers, headers, automatic page numbering, watermark (including graphics) | ||
| Vertical page adjustment | ||
| Comprehensive color options for all objects in the score (very useful for teaching purposes) | ||
| Choice of note fonts and note styles (software includes: six note fonts from renaissance to jazz, can be expanded) | ||
| Set print size as you like | ||
| Automatic bar numbering with dynamic refresh | ||
| Bar numbering in variable steps, e.g. numbers at every 5th bar | ||
| Printout on any printer supported by Windows and in all paper sizes and formats (letter, legal, A1 - 5, landscape, etc.) | ||
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