Rhapsody 4 is the latest of the Rhapsody series of music notation applications for playing, recording and printing music. Music can be input manually by dragging notes onto staves or with the addition of a MIDI card and MIDI keyboard you can play a tune and Rhapsody will capture it and place the notes on the staves automatically.

The current version, 4.30, is now 32 bit neutral for use on the Iyonix and A9. See the prices section for details of how to get the latest version.

Just take a look at the features:

• Guitar chords
• Quick edit panel
• Wide range of symbols including, rehearsal letters, da capo, tremolo, grace notes, spread chords etc
• Hairpins and phrasing
• Outline font used for all display and printing
• Different note styles - cue parts, percussion etc
• Automatic bar checking
• Different individual stave sizes and types
• Sophisticated transcribe options
• Formatting of selected staves
• Save pages as Draw files
• Can load and save Midi files (type 0 or 1)
• Supports bank change messsages
• You can insert Midi commands in the score
• Requires 4Mb and preferable at least ARM 3

Since Rhapsody 4 uses Fonts and Draw object to display and print, you no longer need to buy the ScoreDraw application which used to be necessary with earlier versions of Rhapsody, if you wanted high quality output or Draw file export.

The Midi facilities are more sophisticated than the earlier versions. You are no longer limited to 128 Midi voices and you can add controller or other Midi information anywhere in the score.

An upgrade from the Clares' version (supplied on floppy disc) is available for just £29.
An upgrade from the earlier 26 bit APDL version (on CD) is available for just £12.50.

Note that the upgrade price does not include a printed manual and that there is no extra carriage charge for overseas orders. When upgrading you must return your original discs or CD with your order.

Demo version

A demo version of Rhapsody4 is available for download. At present this is suitablefor 26 bit machines only.
  Rhapsody4 Demo ver. 4.05 - (890K ArcFS archive)

Updates

There was a bug in version 4.09 of Rhapsody4 which meant that pressing RETURN when entering text into a score didn't work. This has now been fixed, and users who purhased Rhapsody4 from APDL, that is, the CD version, can download a free upgrade to version 4.20.

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