Forte Offers Free Music Notation Software to Celebrate its 500,000th Download
Forte is a music notation software developed with quickness and ease of use in mind. The Hamburg, Germany-based developers are celebrating their 500,000th download this week by giving away their Forte Basic software ($24 MSRP) for FREE.
The feature packed software is ideal for educational purposes or for quick inspiration. Their extended software line introduces many other features. For now, here are more details on Forte Basic. Follow the developer’s link above for more information on Forte Home, Forte Premium, and more:
You may not be new to creating music, but is composing with music notation software new to you? Forte BASIC makes it easy for you to explore the world of digital music notation software and compose with confidence!
This entry-level edition of the Forte product family is perfect for students and songwriters delving into digital composition. It’s also a great product for teachers helping students learn to write musical notations or the musician who wants to chart out the songs you’ve written by ear or with basic chords.
All Forte products are designed by musicians for musicians, and we know that you don’t want to waste time with tutorials when you could be creating music instead. You won’t have to go through any long training programs to become a master at writing your own scores with music notation software. We designed the Forte interface so that you could learn the system easily, quickly, and intuitively; you’ll pick up on how to use Forte BASIC in mere minutes.
Forte 6 Basic includes everything you need for simple music scoring tasks, such as:
- Drum notation
- Tablature for guitar and bass
- Easy input for notes, accents, chords, clefs, and ornamentation
- A metronome function to check your timing in each score
- Seamless control for both multi-functional and single functional use.
Additional benefits of Forte BASIC
- 4 staves
- 2 voices
- 2 lyric verses pro stave
- (5/4, 6/8, 12/8 only)
- optimized Soundfont
- Optional FORTE Player
- Save as WAVE
- Import files
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