MW Maestro
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General Customer Service
  • Downloadable program incomplete - download helper software
  • Downloadable Software - Duplicate On-line Orders of the same product
  • Downloadable Software - What do I do if my Computer Crashes?
  • Downloadable Software - What You Purchase
  • Downloading Trouble
  • End-User License Agreement
  • Error: "Contact Technical Support (ERR-MX)" - License / Copyright
  • Licensing for 2 or more computers?
  • LIMITED LIABILITY: (excerpt from End-User License Agreement)
  • On-Line Order - Confirmation Email not received
  • On-Line Order - Shopping Cart is Empty after entering all info
  • Product ID - Reinstalling, Updating etc.
  • Product ID / Serial Number - Registration
  • Product ID > Serial Number - Lost
  • REFUND / RETURN POLICY
  • Registration: How to Register our software - Step By Step
  • Technical Support
    • Overview / Description / Features / Specs
  • Comparison Table - Features
  • Components Description 1 - Score Editor
  • Components Description 2 - Piano Roll Editor
  • Components Description 3 - Controller Editor
  • Components Description 4 - Track Sheet
  • Components Description 5 - Track Mixer
  • Components Description 6 - MIDI Event List Editor
  • Components Description 7 - Song Editor
  • Components Description 8 - Comments
  • Demo limitations - Save & Print
  • Enter notes without pencil tool?
  • MIDI - More about MIDI
  • MIDI Tracks - how many are supported?
  • Multiple notes in real time
  • Music Write Series 1
  • Music Write Series 2
  • MW Maestro
  • Notation - To Maestro or To Rec Prod DLX?
  • PBL Format Support - (Old MW Plus format)
  • Quintuplets
  • Recording MIDI as Wave?
  • Retail Stores / Boxed Version?
  • Scan Sheet music & Transpose?
  • Split score of single track onto Treble & Bass clef
  • System Requirements
  • Upgrade - On Line Upgrade Purchase Difficulty
  • Upgrade from MW Starter Kit
  • Version
  • VSTi - DirectX - DXi 'virtual instruments' support
  • Win 2k / XP - Long file name support
  • Windows Legacy Discontinued platforms: Windows 98 and Windows Me support info
    • Installation
  • 64 bit compatibility?
  • Administrator Rights - Windows XP
  • Antivirus Software - Disable Before Installing and if you run into problems
  • Asian Languages - Cannot Unlock Demo version
  • Demo version comes up but I paid for it - Activate Demo To Full
  • Demo version Downloaded - Do I Download again to buy it on line?
  • Error: "Do you want to completely remove the selected Application"
  • Error: "Product ID is invalid"
  • MIDI Cable Connection Charts (Joystick & USB)
  • Registration - Demo version
  • Registration - Demo version using Foreign Languages
  • REINSTALLING - Unlock Demo to Full Features
  • Trial / Demo version - issues
  • Uninstalling a Windows program - How To
  • Windows Vista - Advanced Users only
  • Windows Vista - Music Write series registration issue w/ Vista
  • Windows Vista Quirks (some of them) - Audio Mixer - MIDI Not Available
    • Configure / Use
  • Bass Guitar Sound?
  • Bass Guitar Tablature?
  • Common Time 4/4 does not appear
  • Connect MIDI Keyboard to Computer - what do I need?
  • Cut Time?
  • Entering "Rit." or "Pedal Throughout" Notation - Free text?
  • Entering notes quickly - Maestro only
  • First / Second Endings
  • Guitar Tablature - quick start
  • How to enter dotted notes
  • How to Enter: Eighth-Quarter-Eighth figure
  • Instruments Tracks - how many?
  • Lines - second, third - how to enter
  • Lyrics
  • Manuals
  • MIDI - 101 - Setup for Internal Playback & External MIDI Keyboard Synth
  • MIDI - External MIDI Keyboard triggering?
  • MIDI - Joystick - do I need one connected for MIDI?
  • MIDI - Newbie Issue 1
  • MIDI - Newbie Issue 2 - 'MIDI Monitor' Testing Utility
  • MIDI - Newbie Issue 3 - Driver?
  • MIDI Cable connection - No MIDI In port on keyboard
  • MIDI files - Download / Scan?
  • MIDI interfaces - Standard vs. USB
  • MIDI interfaces - USB
  • MIDI keyboard - Do I need one?
  • MIDI samples from Yamaha Keyboard
  • MIDI Setup - External Device - Yamaha PSR 550
  • MIDI Setup - External MIDI Keyboard Joystick Connection
  • Notating Acoustic Instruments?
  • Notation change - not audible
  • Notation lines - Copy and paste?
  • Open MW files with Record Producer DLX?
  • Quantization
  • Quarter Notes change into Half Notes
  • Real Time display of Notation from Keyboard
  • Recording - Digital Audio
  • Repeat
  • Score Paper Mode
  • Slurs - can I play them?
  • Split Track
  • Staves per page, Measures per Line, Tracks - Comparison
  • Step mode and Real Time display of Notation from Keyboard
  • Symbols
  • Tempo - How to change
  • Time Signature - FAQ
  • Time Signature difficulty (Advanced)
  • Time Signatures - In Detail
  • Time Signatures - Introduction
  • Time Signatures - Odd Rhythms: 7/8, 9/8, 5/4 etc.
  • Treble Clef - One Octave Lower
  • Type 0 and Type 1 MIDI files
    • Troubleshooting
  • Bars number per staff
  • Deleting files
  • Erratic behavior
  • Error 1628 "Failed to complete script based install"
  • Error: "Cannot establish a MIDI.IN connection" USB Cable
  • Error: "Cannot find SHELL.DLL"
  • Error: "Cannot Open MIDI In" or "MIDI Input device not installed"
  • Error: "Confirm File Deletion" message (Download version only)
  • Error: "Do you want to completely remove the selected Application"
  • Error: "Incompatible version of the RPC Stub"
  • Error: "No MIDI input devices installed"
  • Error: "Stack Overflow or Square root of negative number" while printing
  • Error: "The specified device is in use, wait until it is free and try again"
  • Error: "unable to install InstallShield scripting runtime: 1607
  • Fonts - Garbled (Mozart Font: 'mozart.ttf' not installed)
  • Instruments Do Not Sound The Same - MIDI
  • Latency
  • MIDI - Delayed Sound "MS GS Wavetable SW Synth"
  • MIDI Input problem - No MIDI In
  • MIDI Latency
  • MIDI Output problem - No MIDI Out
  • MIDI Recording - Cannot Record
  • Modify, Repair or Remove
  • No Input from External Keyboard
  • No MIDI Sound
  • No playback of my music
  • No Sound
  • Notes entered with the mouse are not heard
  • Play - advance button does not move
  • Print FAQ
  • Print Preview Mode
  • Printing problems
  • Record and "Step Entry mode"
  • Save settings on exit - does not work
  • Saving in other format I lose some features
  • Sound Quality
  • Static/Popping/Crackling noises
  • Transcription in Real Time?
  • Troubleshooting - If All Else Fails!
  • Tutorial - mwsngtut.exe - No worky in Vista
  • USB to USB Keyboard - instead of Standard (Round 5-pin Din) MIDI In/Out connectors
  • Volume adjustment
  • Wave files distortion?
    • Power Tips
  • Accidentals - Writing Notes w/ Sharps or Flats
  • Accidentals 1 - another example
  • Add measures in the middle of Song
  • Banks of instrument sounds
  • Bar width - Adjusting
  • Bass > Treble clef - edit notes separately
  • Brackets (End Brackets)
  • Clef questions
  • Drum Notation
  • Drums - Display X
  • Dynamics
  • Entering a 'pickup' bar
  • Export score (Maestro only)
  • Exporting "Music Write" files to other programs
  • Exporting / Importing files to Music Write series
  • Fermata - Perform in playback?
  • Glissando - Creating a realistic Glissando
  • Grand staff (treble/bass clef) - How To?
  • Instruments - How To Change
  • Key change during the song - how to
  • Metronome - How to change the default instrument (sound)
  • MIDI - different Sounds on different Tracks
  • MIDI concepts
  • MIDI controllers?
  • MIDI To Guitar?
  • Multi-Bar rests
  • MWP - Using your old .PBL (MusicWritePlus) files
  • Notation - Creating a Drum Part
  • Notation - how to create complex figures - Mozart fonts
  • Notation - UK to American notation terminology
  • Notation refreshed while entering?
  • Note Duration - Customizing the way the note durations display
  • Note Duration - Extending how to
  • Note Duration - Tying an eighth note on to an extended note
  • Notes below middle C - how to?
  • Notes can be moved but not bar lines?
  • Notes revert to Quarter note values
  • Notes transferred to the other clef
  • Play all tracks?
  • Quick Tips
  • Recording MIDI files to Digital Audio for CD Burning
  • Recording MIDI files to Digital Audio for CD Burning 1
  • Removing letters - how to
  • Repeat Signs - Entering
  • Rests
  • Rests - How to Enter a Rest at the Beginning of a Bar
  • Rests Example: Eighth note followed by a Half note
  • Rests Example: Eighth note followed by a Quarter:
  • Rhythm Dialog? Advanced
  • Score quarter note etc. in 6/8 time - how to
  • Setting up separate Staves
  • Sharp or Flat in front of one note - Accidentals - how to?
  • Start song on the 3rd beat?
  • Syncopated Figures - Entering
  • Templates - how to create
  • The 'Make Legato' feature
  • Ties - Entering
  • Ties - how to display
  • Tips & Tricks - Examples: Entering & Erasing notes
  • Tips & Tricks - General Suggestions:
  • Tips & Tricks 1
  • Tips & Tricks 2
  • Tips & Tricks 3
  • Tips & Tricks 4
  • Tips & Tricks 5
  • Transposition - Chord symbols
  • Transposition - Description
  • Treble clef - Notating below middle "C"
  • Triplets - Bracket with the number 3
  • Triplets - Entering
  • Triplets - Entering Quarter Note Triplets in step-by-step detail
  • Tuplets - How to create
  • Voices per Track - more than 2?
  • Voices: Two different voices on the same beat
  • Wave Driver Reset Workaround
  • Width of measures - adjusting
    • 3rd Party
  • Soundcard Requirements: Does Voyetra recommend any sound card?
  • Unicode support?
  • Visual problems - Flickering, Grainy Picture etc.
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    Patches / Apps / Utilities
    		 Size Date Description
    midi_mon.zip 116198 1/7/1999 3rd Party Freeware Utility to test your Sound Card's MIDI functionality
    FAQ Text
    		 Size Date Description
    3189999.txt 319497 7/1/2008 FAQ sheet.
    drumnote.zip 2343 8/6/2001 This .mwk file may be used as a guide when converting drum sounds from Bass Clef notation to Drum Clef
    int2sngw.exe 2136878 8/7/2001 Intro to SongWriting Primer
    maestman.pdf 2576044 8/3/2001 MusicWrite Maestro product manual (PDF format)
    midihook.zip 1151282 8/8/2001 MPEG video showing how to connect your MIDI keyboard
    mozart.zip 2046 8/6/2001 Notation - how to create complex figures
    mozr_ttf.zip 34522 8/8/2001 Mozart.ttf font
    vistano2.txt 63 2/12/2007 VISTA SUPPORT: This program although it may function, it is not supported in Windows Vista. Some of the features may not be available in Vista.
    Demos / Tutorials
    		 Size Date Description
    _download.txt 159 1/1/1991 Our FTP Site is fully functional. If you have trouble Downloading, please disable any download accelerators or popup/cookie blockers. Also, do not double-click. Right-click and select: "Save Target As"
    mwsngtut.exe 1878160 12/6/2001 MW SongWriter Video Tutorial - Only for XP. Will not work in Vista
    sng_mae.exe 8790332 12/22/2006 MW Maestro program (DEMO) | The Demo is fully functional except for Saving & Printing | Vista not supported |