MusiCAD is an easy to use score editor; no steep learning curve, see tutorial;

Produce quality sheet music for any style;

Since MusiCAD is try-ware you can try for yourself if it will fill your needs without any cost;

Easy auto accompaniment (bass & chords) possible based on chord symbols;

Transposing;

Lots of accompaniment features (2nd voice, percussion, bass, piano part.);

No time-limitation for non-registered usage;

Lots of trills, grace-notes, dynamics, Da Capo's and repeats, all audible allowing for verification by ear;

Ties and slurs are not just just graphical objects fixed on a page but connected to notes giving great flexibility for final layout;

Scores may contain up to maximum 32 parts;

Complex compound meters possible;

Easy part extraction from scores;

Lots of part-manipulation tools available;

MIDI-file import / export available;

PDF export built in;

Use PC-keyboard as a MIDI-piano keyboard;

Drum kit notation and percussion notation (and playback);

4 levels of song lyrics near staffs;

Lyrics (including chord symbols) may be put at the end;

Text files containing chord symbols may be imported an transposed at will;

Easy to use visual help;

User interface language English, German and Dutch;

Very small (7bit-ASCII) files (approximately 3kB per A4-page);

Audible half sharps and flats;

General MIDI and General Standard MIDI-compatible (all the sounds your soundcard can play);

Polyphonic ABC-file import and export;

Detailed layout control options note-size, fonts colors, pictures etc.;

You don't need to take layout-decisions until just before printout;

User layout templates and score templates possible;

Extensively user configurable (user assignable buttons and keys. buttonbar, keyboard layout etc. );

Conditional line and page-breaks possible;

Lots of editing possibilities (mouse, various keyboard editing styles, MIDI-keyboard);

Easy undo function;

Entirely operable with keyboard-only and mouse-only;

The Green button comes to rescue if thing have gone astray...

Useable for windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP / Vista / Win7 / Win 8 / Linux-with-Wine;

Any PC that will run one of the above mentioned windows versions will most likely be capable of running MusiCAD.