Choir practice was tough Sunday because we were all trying to sing parts off of a handwritten song -- we started and stopped everyone asking is that a natural or a flat, which is my part, etc. It was so frustrating for the piano player and the choir, I thought there has to be a better way.

Fortunately, I found Music Publisher just by Googling for music writing software. Within minutes I was able to convert hand written music notes in four parts into a professional looking song that is super easy to read. I cannot wait until choir practice next week to show everyone how easy it will be to sing the song now.

I really love the software. For me, it was almost as easy to use Music Publisher as it is to type a letter in Microsoft Word. I love the intuitive user interface. Great programming skills you and your team have! --Lee

I've worked on Music Publisher for about 12 hours now and already I can do things that I never figured out how to do on my old software.

I'm really excited about burning my Finale manuals. I've spent so many YEARS cursing at that program!

"Music Publisher [Ed. Note: starting with version 5] is an absolutely wonderful piece of software. ... Music Publisher is designed to make composing, editing and scanning much easier on you and it does all that and more."

"Assuming you're not intentionally using the old rhetorical trick of constraining the response set to get the answer you want, I vote for Music Publisher [Ed. Note: starting with version 5, or MP5]. It has everything except part extraction, which is rumored to be forthcoming. It's only $170 and is completely free-form; you don't have to devise tricks to defeat the beat count, etc. The company is small enough so that you get almost instantaneous feedback on bugs and enhancements, with a turnaround time of days, not months, on fixes (it seems bug-free right now, anyway). New features are aggressively added based on user feedback. It comes with a comprehensive user manual, for the few who actually read them, as well as online help and a tutorial to get you jump started. It's jammed with features, and the good news is you can download a free trial version that has everything; it just won't play back entire scores or do a couple of other big operations. MP5 has a convenient American/British nomenclature option so you can deal with quarter notes or crotchets in the online documentation, as you wish. It has everything you'd expect in a high price spread, like full text editing support, cut and paste, a notation palette which seems to have everything but Gregorian chant (and I've heard that's coming, too), superb printing, transposition, easy entry of notes and accidentals, user-definable templates, word processor-style pagination options, playback in dozens of instruments, MIDI file save, prettifying functions, manually adjustable slurs, an optional scanning module, and -- for heavens sakes -- it even plays the bagpipes. What more could one ask for?"

"I tried several notation software packages from the Internet and yours is the easiest to learn and operate. I can score a song in less than 30 minutes (I write arrangements for a 9 piece big band)."

"This is a really nice program! I can edit and print out my home work songs from my fiddle class. I can play along with them and adjust the speed as I get better. It is a big help for learning to read the notes and also the timing of them. I am a beginner and I had no trouble learning to use MP5 and the Help section is easy to understand. Excellent program! Thank you."

"My wife just started using the Music Publisher software I purchased a month or so ago. I usually help her a good bit with new programs as she fumes at their design and training idiocies. I thought you'd appreciate knowing that all I had to do was turn her loose on your tutorial. She sailed through it and was able to be productive immediately - including figuring out with the help of the manual how to do a complex barred repeating-note pattern. We are both delighted with your design sense and clear writing."

"Thank you for such a wonderful program. I really enjoy working with it. The product is of the very highest quality, better than I ever imagined."

"The software is really easy to use. I think I am going to like it a lot. I am a church musician that flunked transposition in school and will be using it mostly for transposing hymns and hymn arrangements to lower keys. Thanks again."