Voyetra's Music Write 2000 Standard Edition is an easy yet powerful way to notate music and record by using MIDI. It offers you all of the tools for creating everything from professional-quality sheet music to full ensemble scores, without the need to read an encyclopedia-size manual. By using a mouse, you can enter notes at your own pace or record them in real time by using an optional MIDI keyboard. Music Write 2000 automatically notates what you enter. Set up your clefs, key signatures, and transpositions for each instrument. It's equally versatile for notating lyrics, melody, chord symbols, or drum parts. You can cut, copy, and paste music into your score, just like with a word processor. Record with an optional MIDI keyboard, and see your music instantly transcribed into notation. Print your score--complete with your name, song title, copyright information, and more--in any Windows font. Add chord names and guitar symbols. Use the loop function, which lets you enter and edit notes as you're looping, to hear different musical ideas quickly. Use the symbol palette to enter all notes and rests, clefs, chords, and lyrics. Add up to two lines of lyrics into your score. Music Write 2000 supports ties, triplets, orchestral symbols and markings, and much more. The package also includes the book "Introduction to Songwriting," which is a valuable guide to the creative process of writing, arranging, and producing your own songs and compositions.