Your scores.
Exactly as they were printed.
Notavela opens score files from the popular notation programs – and carries over as much of their design as it can: page size, margins, system layout, spacing, titles and text.
Old files. New life.
Many music collections are locked in the formats of programs that no longer exist or no longer run. Notavela reads them directly – no detour through a second program.
Open common formats
From MusicXML to the native file formats of widely used notation programs – including files from older program versions.
Your design stays intact
Page size, margins, breaks, the position of systems and staves, titles and page text are carried over, as far as the file contains them.
Down to the details
Lyrics with every verse, chord symbols, articulation, dynamics, notehead shapes and text formatting all come along.
The page, just as it was.
Notavela doesn’t simply re-engrave the music – it follows the original: wherever the file defines how the page looked, Notavela sticks to it.
- Paper and marginsA4, Letter or a custom size – with the original’s margins.
- Systems in their placeThe same measures per system, the same systems per page, the same distances between staves.
- Titles and page textTitle, composer, headers, footers and page numbers – with their font, size and alignment.
- Staff sizeThe original’s staff size, even where individual systems are scaled down.
Measured
Median deviation for a ten-page orchestral score compared with the PDF printed by the original program. Note spacing within measures is calculated by Notavela itself.
More than a file opener
Notavela is a complete music notation program – for choirs, congregations, orchestras and anyone who works with a lot of sheet music.
Music library
Search large collections – by title, instrumentation, key, parts and verses.
Translation and transliteration
Instrument names, titles and text in your readers’ language – with transliteration of Cyrillic names.
Harmonic analysis
Roman numerals, cadences and playable chord suggestions for guitar and piano.
Songbooks
Combine many songs into one book – with a table of contents, in A4, A5 or a custom size.
Playback
Hear what’s on the page – with the sound libraries on your Mac.
German, English, Russian
The interface speaks your language.
Notavela is coming soon.
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