With NoteFlight, create your music scores online

If you are a musician, you should like this tool. Indeed, the site NoteFlight was designed to allow you to create (and listen to) your scores online while giving you the possibility to make them available to the user community or to share them with a smaller group who can then edit your compositions. This feature encourages collaboration between musicians and allows the exchange of musical ideas in real time.

The tool is available free of charge at the following address: noteflight.com and includes a more complete paid version, meeting the needs of the most demanding musicians.

NoteFlight, the online score editor for all your music

Present for a little while on the web, NoteFlight has taken advantage of its experience to enrich itself over the years with many quite powerful features. This makes it a very serious and very complete online score editor, capable of managing compositions ranging from simple melody to the most complex works.

This is why the site offers both a limited free version and a more comprehensive paid version.

The free version offers quite a few possibilities, especially if you only want to write scores occasionally or if you don't have an alternative on your computer.

In fact, this tool has an online editor that requires the creation of an account and which will allow you in particular to:

• create up to 10 partitions (this is by far the biggest constraint of the free version). You can however delete and then recreate them, you cannot have more than 10 in your personal space.
• listen to them with basic instruments divided into several families (bowed strings, plucked strings, wind instruments, brass, percussion and keyboards)
• print your scores
• access it from a mobile version
• export or import scores in Music XML or MIDI format

The strong point of the tool is that it was developed in HTML5, which allows it to be compatible with all your devices : computers, tablets and smartphones for use wherever you are (provided, of course, that your little fingers aren't too plump because it's a bit complicated on a smartphone).

NoteFlight is relatively intuitive to use (for someone with some knowledge of music theory), but the creators of the site still provide you with a complete user guide in French.

Finally, to make things easier for you, NoteFlight offers on his Youtube channel a whole series of videos to master the editing and composition tool. These tutorials will help you get the most out of the tool, whether you are a beginner or an experienced musician.

A premium version to go further

The tool is very well made, but if you want access its full version including an unlimited number of scores, access to more than 85 instruments to read your scores and a lot of other small features more or less important (including sharing scores with an individual or creating groups), you will have to pay $49/year (around €44) or $7.95/month (around €7)… It is also possible to pay $299 (around €272) to obtain a lifetime license for this online tool. This premium version also allows you to sell your scores on a marketplace offered by the site.

Sharing to individuals and creating groups can be very useful if you play in a band and want each member to edit their instrumental line.

In short, I invite you to discover this very good tool even if the free version risks leaving more than one hungry… for extensive use, you will definitely have to pay. Nevertheless, the possibilities offered by the paid version largely justify the investment for serious and passionate musicians.

In summary, NoteFlight is a practical and powerful solution for all musicians wishing to compose, share and collaborate on their scores online. Whether you are an amateur or a professional, you will find in this tool a valuable ally to develop your musical creativity.

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