Version 7.1 introduced Unicode compatibility UTF-8 is now the standard text encoding format. Live voice extraction is also available in the free Reader program in the limited version of the editor Capella start, such live voice extractions are not available for editing. Specific instruction of individual voices can be marked as 'only visible in extracted voice'.

On printing and exporting, only the voices being shown in the current view will be used. Version 7 brought live voice extraction: one can switch between the view on the full score for the whole orchestra and the view on a selection of the staves of one or a group of instruments. capella's captune module allows to select the output channels and to fine-tune the sounds. It includes engraving as well as MIDI import and export.Ĭapella can play back the score (the full score or an arbitrary selection of staves) via the computer's sound card, to MIDI devices or using VST modules.

It is intended for multi staff scores like choir music, or orchestral music.Ĭapella is a practically oriented application suited for amateur and professional musicians alike. A free capella reader can display, print and play a capella score.ĭata entry is possible via computer keyboard entirely, via mouse or in a combination with a MIDI keyboard. A capella start program is offered with several restrictions for a lower price. The current version is Capella Professional 8.0, which includes guitar chord notation ability, and guitar tab writing functions, in addition to the standard music notation tools. Originally available only in German, capella is now available in English (US and British), French, Dutch, Finnish, Polish (version 5.3) and Czech (capella 2008). The German Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch has been digitized using capella software. Digital sheet music in capella formats is available in various online music libraries, especially in German speaking areas. Capella claims to have 300,000 users for the music notation program and 120,000 for the OCR program. The program was initially created by Hartmut Ring, and is now maintained and developed by Bernd Jungmann.Ĭapella is one of the earliest computer programs for music notation and has a relatively moderate price compared with Finale or Sibelius, though up to version 7 it ran only on Windows. The publisher writes the name in lower case letters only. Capella requires to be activated after a trial period of 30 days. German, English, French, Dutch, Finnish, Polish, CzechĬapella is a musical notation program or scorewriter developed by the German company Capella Software AG (formerly WHC), running on Microsoft Windows or corresponding emulators in other operating systems, like Wine on Linux and others on Apple Macintosh.

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