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Drum Score Editor is free software for drum scores in the pipe band world. Runs on macOS, Windows and Linux – happy scoring!

Your free introduction to music notation software. With Finale Notepad, you can create orchestrations of up to eight staves. You can add notes by clicking them into the staff or importing MIDI or MusicXML files. Once your music is in NotePad, you can hear it play back, see it on the printed page, and share it with other NotePad users and users of other Finale family music notation software. Feb 09, 2021 Version: 3.2.2.22888. A few months ago, I was searching for a free score editor to advise a friend singer on pc, with the aim of sending her my work so that she could edit her part. MuseScore was the first result and it appeared reasonably good for that purpose.

Microsoft Windows

Download & Installation for Windows

• N.B. Tested on Windows 8 and 10, 64 bit only
• Click on the button below to download the installer
• Please uninstall any existing version before installing this version, 2.9
• Run the downloaded installer
• Once installed Drum Score Editor will open
• Optional: Feel free to tidy up and delete the installer from your downloads folder

Apple macOS

Download & Installation for macOS

• N.B. Tested on macOS Catalina with all the new security hardening
• Click on the button below to download the installer
• The downloaded disk image will open
• As per usual for macOS software installs, drag the Drum Score Editor icon on to the Applications icon
• Optional: Feel free to tidy up and delete the installer from your downloads folder

Linux

Download & Installation for Linux

• N.B. Tested on Ubuntu 16 LTS, with Gnome and Cinammon desktops
• Click on the button below to download the installer
• It’s a deb file, you’re a Linux person
• And because you’re a Linux person you know what to do to install it
• Optional: Feel free to tidy up and delete the installer from your downloads folder

About Drum Score Editor

Drum Score Editor is free software for drum scores in the pipe band world and is available on Apple macOS, Microsoft Windows and Linux. There is no charge to download and use the community edition of this software, it’s distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

There is a paid license available which unlocks advanced features that will save even more time writing and maintaining beautiful scores for a drum corps. More details about this are available in the Licensing section below, however the free version is very capable and many people regard this still as the most rapid way to work with drum scores. They haven’t seen how rapid they would be with the advanced features!

Importantly Drum Score Editor is actively maintained and updated, with new features and any bugfixes forthcoming as needed, with an active community of users whose feedback helps drive forward in the quest to have the best tools available to us drummers.

It’s Still Free

There’s a whole bunch of legal stuff as per the license above, but really this is just to say it’s free and no-one is allowed to sell you it, nor can you sell it on. You can’t use it to make money either unless we agree that in advance as you’ll probably want better support than the best efforts there is with this, given it’s free!

Support, Questions

If something’s not working how it should, or just isn’t clear to you, am happy to help anyone out, either via facebook or at alan@whiteware.org – any suggestions for improvement always welcome!

Drum Score Editor Licenses

Free Music Score Software For Mac

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Free Music Score Software For Mac Windows 10

Community & Studio Editions

The Community Edition of Drum Score Editor is free to download and free to use, there are no charges or fees of any sort.
Please feel free to buy me a beer any time we’re in the same beer tent though 😉

The Studio Edition costs £30 and adds features to help make an author edit scores more quickly and is enabled through adding a license key to the Community Edition. These license keys can be purchased through this website or getting in touch with alan@whiteware.org

Important Drum Score Editor is not a profit making venture, sale of licenses helps cover costs of hosting this website and other items needed to produce and distribute software safely.

Community Edition Features

• What you see is what you get, it prints what you see on the screen
• Select and action interface, i.e. select some notes and choose an action, e.g. make them an irregular group, or add embellishments etc
• Generate a new blank score based on tune type (march, strathspey) and time signature
• Fully flexible placement and size of text areas and music areas on the page, customise as you need, even multiple scores on one page
• Apply different point sizes to text and music to scale to fit as needed
• Fast editing through keystroke actions, no need to keep reaching for the mouse once up to speed on these
• Handles irregular groups and rests
• Crescendo and diminuendo
• Rolls, stroke rolls, across staff lines, roll to nowhere for end of score situations
• Unison as either a bracket above the notes or a highlighter pen or both, option to include any embellishment in the unison, or just the tap in a roll
• Different colour highlighter pens for those who use colour to show light and shade
• When entering notes, cursor smart spaces to where the next note should be in regular groups
• Open file format, humans can read it if they’re interested in importing Drum Score files into other software (one day I’ll make it MusicXML compliant)
• Integrated with the desktop, click on files to load in Drum Score Editor, easy access to recently used files from the File menu
• Supports the EUSPBA standard tenor symbols

Studio Edition Features

• Font-tastic beautiful music and text – a music font as used by the big professional music notation software is enabled, as well as any text font on your system with stunning results
• Produce mp4 movies of your score with a visual indication of tempo as the beat notes are indicated, with optional click track, and the ability for you to record your audio track so your corps can see and hear the music exactly how you want it expressed
• Rudiment Libraries – often used phrases and rudiments can be dragged and dropped onto any number of libraries, which can be organised as you like, e.g. a 2/4 library, a strathspey phrase library
• Bar content guidance, warns you if there too few or too many notes in a bar
• Automatic joining of tails of notes (beaming), includes ensuring only a single line used on primary subdivisions within a beat
• Export as JPEG, PDF, PNG or SVG file for use as graphic images, e.g. embed in a document
• Clone whole staff line – it’s a workflow that automates copying a staff line and it’s contents and inserts it. All possible without the workflow, but just more keystrokes
• Manage whole parts of music, adding 2nd times or expanding to no repeats – and back again. This is a real time saver when you realise the music varies and you need to vary the score between piano and forte passes
• New score preferences are saved between launches of the software so if you always want your new scores generated with pink highlight for unison, this will happen
• Workspace preferences are saved, window size etc
• Block selection – without this you can select runs of notes, but if you wanted to say select bars 3 and 4 and 7 and 8 of a 2/4 which has 4 bars per line because you want to copy and paste the middles and endings, this is your friend
• Vertically align notes – you can do this by hand without this tool, but this is so much easier
• Squeeze / expand runs of notes – you’ve entered your masterful selection of singles and decided you need more space on the page or indeed that you have space to spread them out more – this will proportionately allow you to spread them out or push them closer together
• Beautify your score – with a single keystroke (or menu click) you can have the notes in your score be moved to where they should be, given their value and the time signature of the piece
• There’s loads more features and options enabled, head over to the documentation to go through the detail or contact me – always happy to chat about Drum Score Editor!

forScore MacAvailable Now

The Mac is where it all began; it’s the computer we love and use every day to make forScore. It enables us to pursue our passions, gives us the language we use to express our creativity, and sets the standard for the power of incredible hardware and software working together.

When Apple announced their initiative to make it easier for developers to bring their iPad apps to the Mac, we were honored to see forScore’s icon on stage alongside dozens of other apps that could be amazing on macOS, but it wasn’t news to us—we always thought a Mac version of forScore was inevitable, it was just a matter of figuring out how.

Now that vision is a reality, and the result is an incredible new experience that’s familiar and complete. Introducing forScore for Mac.

Tailored for Mac

From the menu bar to the touch bar, forScore is incredible on the Mac. Its powerful new split view layout lets you work like never before. It’s blazingly fast, easy to use, and feels right at home on Apple’s latest OS thanks to the work we already spent implementing day-one support for features like Drag and Drop and Contextual Menus in years past. Those building blocks led us here, and it really paid off.

Familiar & Flexible

No matter how you use it, forScore gracefully adapts to practically any window size and aspect ratio thanks to its flexible display modes and layout options. Go full screen and use two-up mode to see two pages with greater clarity than ever before, or tile your windows to play from a single page of music while you use another app on the other half of your screen.

Extended & Enhanced

Use drag and drop to import or export files. Put together next week’s setlist and sync it to all of your other devices with iCloud. Open a new window to work with multiple files at once.* In annotation mode, use the sidebar to easily access layers, stamps, or shapes at any time. It’s everything you know and love about forScore, but bigger and better than ever.

A Whole New Platform

forScore for Mac isn’t a separate app, it’s a universal purchase: buy once to install and run on all supported platforms. From the smallest iPhone to the expansive iMac and beyond, forScore scales beautifully and makes the most of each form factor.

Our mission has always been to make the best sheet music reader we can and to tear down barriers between musicians and their music. forScore continues that mission on the Mac by bringing a great sheet music reading experience to the workstations musicians and audio engineers use every day to make incredible music.

forScore is available now for macOS, iPadOS, and iOS, a free update from all previous versions. Get it today on the App Store, and be sure to check out our news page and follow us on Twitter for the latest news and announcements.

*Some features described above, including multi-window support, are coming soon with forScore 13 for macOS 11.3 or later. This free major update will be released as soon Apple allows us to do so, alongside the release of macOS 12.