User:Cachsten/sandbox

PriMus ("Printed Music") is a proprietary music notation software created by Columbus Soft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X (CrossOver), released in 2007 (Germany).

PriMus includes engraving and playback functionality. Its features cover all common tasks of modern western musical notation. Columbus Soft offers six differently priced versions of PriMus. The flagship ist PriMus Publisher, other versions are subsets of the main program's features. The gratis PriMus Free allows rudimentary notation and editing.

As opposed to other (WYSIWYG-) scorewriters, the unique selling proposition is its capability of hosting multiple pieces just as text paragraphs and graphical elements in a single document. The different music pieces are taken into account by the software and its file format, they can imply thus differing metadata or even style settings (e.g. rastrum size, spacing, margins, etc.). In so doing it is getting more handy to format musical work sheets, song sheets or music publications with several movements (e.g. opera, sinfonia, etc.) so that in many cases there is no need to use DTP software like InDesign to finish a score edition for printing. This is why Columbus Soft claims to bridge the gap between desktop publishing and music notation.

Functionality
editing in the sheet. edit where you see it. contexte menues more ...

no tool-oriented workflow. to main modes. one for input, one for formating.

anything is always active.

Capabilities
PriMus supports note entry via mouse, computer keyboard, or MIDI keyboard step by step or in real time.

Desktop Publishing

flexible design and formating possibilities.

all score elements can be positioned or adjusted by dragging.

using MIDI as controlling instance -> midi port as hosting device for other sound libs.

the following list is an overview of some

basic features
 * percussion
 * guitar tabs -> PriMus can notate and play most styles including guitar tabulature.
 * adjustable layout automatations and (at some points) collision detection
 * all kinds of musical symbols and accidentals

outstanding features
 * feathered beams
 * cross staff beams

import
PriMus imports MIDI, MusicXML, Emil, Score Perfect, Capella and Guitar Pro.

export
It exports MIDI, MusicXML, Emil, graphics and web page.

History
Christof Schardt is a PHD-graduated software developer located in Darmstadt (Germany).

In the 1990s, Schardt was one of the lead programmers of Score Perfect Professional (SPP) — an once popular notation software in central Europe, written in BASIC. When discontinuing his comittment to SPP in 2001, he decided to develop a new scoring application from scratch.

The first version of PriMus appeared in the fall of 2007, lite versions in 2009 to follow. In 2010, an update 1.1 with several new features and the initial Mac version have been released. With PriMus Free, a gratis version of the scorewriter has been published in 2011.

Unlike other competetive products, the founder and originator Christof Schardt is CEO and lead programmer up to the present (2014).

The first major release, PriMus 2.0 is announced for ... 2014.

Versions
As in 2014, there are currently six different versions available of PriMus:


 * PriMus Publisher – Scorewriting and Desktop Publishing, layout of text paragraphs, graphics and several music pieces in one document.
 * PriMus Professional – As a classical Scorewriter, only one music piece per document, but within this music peace unlimited engraving functions (early PriMus Classic).
 * PriMus Standard – Standard edition with all frequently used functions (early PriMus SE), up to 16 staffs.
 * PriMus Basic – Lite edition, limited to 4 staffs.
 * PriMus Free – Simple Version for first time users.
 * PriMus Reader – Reading, playing and printing musical scores.

Other information
PriMus runs on Linux via WineHQ.

TO DO

 * Analyse other articles
 * find reliable sources
 * find articles
 * create software history
 * find criteria for delete article