capella has no practical limits to the length or complexity of score it can produce, but if you only produce scores with 4 staves or less we can provide a less costly version of capella, called capella start, which meets these reduced demands.
capella-start costs £54 (or £49 for the download only).
capella costs £195.
capella-start is suitable for a small ensemble arrangement, a four-part choir arrangement or uncomplicated piano works. Its limits are:
– 4 staves per line of music
– 2 voices per stave
– 100 bars score length.
– 4 staves per line of music
– 2 voices per stave
– 100 bars score length.
capella has no practical limit to the size of score you can write. In addition it has plugin and export features not available in capella start. All missing features that are available in capella7 are shown grayed out so that you know that they are availbale if you upgrade.
capella8 costs £195. If you buy capella-start and find that you would like the full program – which has every feature you could wish for – you can upgrade for the difference in price.
For a full comparison of capella and capella start see the table below:
Main Features |
capella-start 7.1 |
capella 8 |
| Convenient window layout: Quick access with tabs; dock and undock windows | yes | |
| Symbol bars can be freely assembled | yes | |
| Powerful and easy score wizard | yes | |
| ScoreWizard supports polyphonic staves such as soprano/alto – tenor/bass or 1st/2nd/3rd flutes | yes | |
| Number of notes or chords per stave: unlimited | yes | |
| Number of lines per stave (usually: 5) | 5 | 1-11 |
| Number of polyphonic voices per stave | 2 | 6 |
| Number of staves per system | 4 | 999 |
| Number of systems per score: unlimited | 100 | yes |
| Small and large staves in the same score/system | yes | |
| Free toolbar positioning, symbols also appear in menus | yes | |
| Multiple split score windows. Page layout view (fully editable) in all magnifications | yes | yes |
| Powerful zoom function. An unlimited number of pages can be displayed next to each other | yes | yes |
| Numerous keyboard short cuts for almost all menu and dialog instructions; this makes work efficient and ergonomic for all including visually impaired users | yes | yes |
| Split-second movement across large scores using the navigation center | yes | yes |
| Undo and redo function, using list with clear instruction descriptions. Number of undo and redo steps: | 5 | 999 |
| Note values: Breve note to 1/128 | yes | yes |
| MusicXML import (i.e. import files from/to Finale® or Sibelius®) | max. 4 staves | yes |
| Midi import (Format Midi 0 and 1), Midi Export (Format Midi 1) | max. 4 tracks | yes |
| MusicXML export: capella files can be used by Finale® and Sibelius® users | yes | |
| Search function for finding melodies in the score | yes | |
| Search for rhythms independent of melody | yes | |
| Integrated programming language (Python) to create additional features as plug ins | yes | |
| Easy to use ready-made plug ins, downloadable free from this web site | yes | |
| Future-proof data interface on XML basis | yes | yes |
Capturing Notes |
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| Note entry via PC keyboard | yes | yes |
| Keyboard enter-and-listen function (listen to notes as you type them) | yes | yes |
| Midi real-time entry and Midi step entry | yes | yes |
| Notes entered directly into the score using the mouse | yes | yes |
| Mouse piano (size adjustable and fully customizable) | yes | yes |
| Support for entering and playing back percussion instruments using sound mapping | yes | yes |
| Percussion voices can be easily set in the ScoreWizard | yes | |
| Note entry using piano roll with metronome and comfortable quantizing option | yes | yes |
Transposition |
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| Transpose the entire score with one mouse click | yes | yes |
| Transpose with or without key change: chromatic, true to interval and enharmonic transposition; diatonic shifting | yes | yes |
| Transposing: Individual parts of the score with automatic key signature function; all transposing functions with or without key change | yes | yes |
| Transposition of individual or multiple staves across the entire score (the other staves remain untouched) | yes | |
| Transposing instruments reflected during playback | yes | yes |
Playback |
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| All sound cards, 128 voices, each voice can be selected | yes | yes |
| Choose a different sound for each stave | yes | yes |
| Choose a different sound for each voice | yes | |
| Playback recognizes all performance marks (trills, upper mordents, mordents or turns) | yes | yes |
| Standard pitch a’ can be tuned | yes | yes |
| Automatic scrolling during playback; can be deactivated | yes | yes |
| Playback with any historic tuning, also pure adaptive tuning (Hermode tuning) | yes | yes |
| Tuned for perfect collaboration with capella Vienna orchestra | yes | yes |
| Playback reflects repeat signs: dal segno, al coda, etc. | yes | yes |
| Playback reflects user’s own playback instructions: pizzikato, col legno, stopped, etc. | yes | yes |
| Volta brackets are considered during playback (one octave up or down) | yes | yes |
| VST host: Support of VST samplers | yes | yes |
| Tempo change option within the score at any note; smooth transitions, tempo recording with slide control | yes | yes |
Score Editing |
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| Automatic beaming and beam slope function | yes | yes |
| Individually adjustable beam slope and stem length | yes | |
| Sub-group beams | yes | |
| Notation in adjacent staves, beams stretch across staves | yes | |
| Automatic chord symbols (with analysis of chord) | yes | |
| Automatic Lead-Sheet generation | yes | |
| Split system at any point in the score | yes | yes |
| Automatic wrap around (score division with optimized or selected number of bars per system) | yes | |
| Ties, crescendo hairpins, octave brackets are automatically taken apart/joined during system break | yes | yes |
| Automatic break (score division with optimum or freely selectable number of bars per system and optional combination of multiple bar rests) | yes | |
| Clefs, time signature, key signature, bar lines etc. changeable at any point in the score, including single staves in the current system | yes | yes |
| Course of bar lines freely adjustable including bar lines in the gap between staves | yes | |
| Live voice extraction: Switch from score view to voice extraction view with one mouse click. Note, graphics and text editing done during voice extraction will show in the entire score and vice versa | yes | |
| Irregular division (duplet, triplet … up to 15-tuplet) | yes | yes |
| Diverse range of note heads, stems and heads without stems | yes | |
| Forced accidentals (incl. in brackets), suppress accidentals | yes | yes |
| Appoggiatura and cue notes | yes | yes |
| Tremolo bars in note stems | yes | yes |
| Edit individual note heads in chord (accidental, head shape, mute during playback etc). | yes | |
| Automatic bar lines, fixed bar lines, individual-design bar lines | yes | yes |
| Staccato, Tenuto, Staccatissimo, hard/soft attack, normal/strong accent, etc. | yes | yes |
| Definition of own articulation signs | yes | yes |
| Cue notes, grace notes, place holders | yes | yes |
| Multiple bar rests in various styles (traditional rest, etc.) | yes | |
| Split polyphonic staves into separate staves within same system | yes | |
| Automatic filling of incomplete voices in polyphonic staves | yes | |
| Guitar tablature | yes | |
| Basso continuo function | yes | |
| Rest management: merge rests, fill staves with rests | yes | |
| Score synthesis: Combine several individual voices into one score | yes | |
| Convert chord letters to chord notes and vice versa | yes | |
| Sequence of staves in system can be changed at any time; ripple effect throughout the entire score | yes | yes |
| Abbreviations, tremolo bars and many more special functions available at a click of the mouse | yes | |
| Position two systems side by side: perfect for coda notation and cramped spaces | yes | yes |
Text, Symbols, Graphics |
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| Text import from other Windows applications | yes | yes |
| Graphic import function from other Windows applications | yes | |
| Text objects in RTF format with unrestricted character and paragraph formatting feature | yes | |
| Text objects and lyrics may contain any font of any language side by side (“Unicode “, for example Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese) | yes | |
| Text objects also in frames (round, square, oval etc.) | yes | yes |
| 120 musical symbols available to insert directly from symbol pallets | yes | yes |
| Intelligent graphic objects: Text, symbols or graphics set in only one voice appear in one/several/all staves of score and voice extraction | yes | yes |
| Free positioning of graphics, including in front or behind notes; sequence selection of overlapping graphics | yes | |
| Fret Wizard for guitar, banjo etc. | yes | yes |
| Symbols can be transposed as you like (chord descriptions, frets, figures etc.) | yes | |
| Graphic objects: line, ellipse, polygon, repeat box, triplet bracket, sloping wavy line etc. | yes | |
| Wide ranging design options including dotted slurs | yes | |
| Administration of personalized graphic symbols using the gallery | yes | |
| Graphics export: Part of monitor display, current system or entire page; supported by almost all Windows applications: also includes pre-printing stage for all platforms (Mac etc.); supports web publishing | yes | |
| HTML-Export: One-click procedure to create web-document; select from different styles, include embedded player | yes | |
Layout and Printing |
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| Score layout is independent of the chosen printer | yes | yes |
| System brackets (curly brace and/or straight brackets), barlines across staves within system | yes | yes |
| System justification for each system separately including for the entire score | yes | yes |
| Footers, headers, page numbering | yes | yes |
| Unrestricted formatting feature for footers, headers, automatic page numbering, watermark (including graphics) | yes | |
| Vertical page adjustment | yes | |
| Comprehensive color options for all objects in the score (very useful for teaching purposes) | yes | |
| Choice of note fonts and note styles (software includes: six note fonts from renaissance to jazz, can be expanded) | yes | |
| Set print size as you like | yes | yes |
| Automatic bar numbering with dynamic refresh | yes | yes |
| Bar numbering in variable steps, e.g. numbers at every 5th bar | yes | yes |
| Printout on any printer supported by Windows and in all paper sizes and formats (letter, legal, A1 – 5, landscape, etc.) | yes | yes |
For notation and computer experts, editors and publishers |
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| Create a new empty score according to the layout/design of an existing one | yes | yes |
| Field commands in text objects for page numbering, instrument names or bar number | yes | yes |
General Information |
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| Manual as PDF file | yes | yes |
| capella must be activated within 30 days after installation. | yes | yes |
