Music Software Tutorials

The tutorials are generally in PDF format, and because they contain quite a few images may take a while to open, we recommend that you right-click on the link and save the pdf file before opening. To view these files, you will require Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Tutorial 1: Customising The Adventus Piano Suite Premier Library (PDF File: 661KB may a few minutes to open) Did you know that you can easily add more piano pieces into Adventus Piano Suite Premier, and then use all the built-in features to learn them? This tutorial shows you how to scan sheet music using Finale PrintMusic, then import the results into Piano Suite and update the custom library. The step-by-step guide will also be useful if you want to import MIDI files into Piano Suite.

Tutorial 2: Creating Play-Along Accompaniment Files with Finale PrintMusic (PDF File: 106KB may take a short while to open) Having someone to play along with is great fun. Those play-along CD's are excellent, but do you struggle to keep up with them, or lose your place while you are playing. Finale PrintMusic can help solve these problems. Although many people buy it for its notation and composition capabilities it also makes a great accompaniment tool. Simply scan in your sheet music, or import a MIDI file, or use one of the other quick entry methods, and then you can use it to play along. You get to choose the tempo, you can hide the accompaniment part and just follow your line, so there is no danger of losing your place. This tutorial takes you step-by-step throught the process of importing the music, choosing instruments for playback, muting tracks, hiding staves etc.
Here are the two files which we created for this tutorial:
Rieding Concerto in B Minor Op 20 for Violin(Finale PrintMusic format)
Bach Minuet in G(Finale PrintMusic format)

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If you want to know more about setting up a home music studio on your computer, then there is a fantastic guide to computer music making written by Cakewalk- The Desktop Music Handbook - which covers MIDI in depth, and also features a great introductory guide to Digital Audio.

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