Igor Movies
About playback: The sounding demos were captured from the computers' QuickTime playback and compressed to make the file sizes smaller. When you use Igor to play this back on a more sophisticated synthesiser there will be a world of difference.
In case your computer (Macintosh or Windows) doesn't have QuickTime installed, you can download it here:
Creating a layout (181KB)
Simply drag and drop instruments from the instrument library to create parts and scores.
Undo & Redo (389KB)
Igor has infinite Undo and Redo, per piece. You can at any time jump to a previous or later position simply by selecting a command from the History menu item.
Multiple language support (92KB)
Igor has built-in support for six languages. Every piece has a main language, and when you move instruments and musicians between pieces, the instrument names and score nomenclature will adapt accordingly
Slur input (52KB)
This is how easy it is to enter slurs along with the notes: just press a key where it starts and press that key again where it ends. Igor knows where to position a slur when there is a marking already on a note and when the slur moves if you place a marking such as a staccato or an accent on a particular note after the slur has been put in place.
Slur dragging (78KB)
Change your mind about where a slur should go? Just grab it and drag to the note you want. Igor automatically reformats the slur and avoids collision with any articulations or notes. It also warns us when a note is out of range for an instrument by drawing it onscreen in red.
Slur playback (249KB) with sound
The effect of slurred staccato notes on a violin, and some dynamics just for fun.
Glissando playback (216KB) with sound
Listen to a white key glissando, followed by a black key glissando, on a piano. (Igor knows about these things.) Note also that Igor ignores the key signature, just like a pianist would.
Glissando input (52KB)
Adding a glissando to a note is as simple as pressing one key. Watch how the glissando indication changes when there is more room for text along the glissando line (and of course, glissando lines automatically avoid accidentals and augmentation dots). Sizing a bar is as simple as dragging the barline left or right. Just grab and drag.
Trills (189KB) with sound
The first trill on a will be played back as a trill between A and B, while the other trill on a will be played back as a trill between A and B flat. Listen carefully when you play back the music a second time, and you will find that the trills are not of the exactly same speed: The first flutist's solo trills sound a tiny bit different from each other. The difference in the play back of trills is perhaps more apparent when you hear both flutists playing trills at the same time. The difference, almost unnoticeable the first time the passage is listened to, adds a great deal of realism to the music.
Reger (123KB) with sound
Listen how a ritenuto indication sounds on playback. Igor recognizes it and slows down. It also recognizes the a tempo indication and resumes the previous tempo. You have the choice of two soundtracks here: either the captured and compressed QuickTime sound track (492KB), or a professionally-sounding Roland MOC-1 AIFF version (724KB).
Cross-staff notes (51KB)
Moving notes or chords to adjacent staves is easy. This movie shows how quickly you can cross-staff music to other staves, and how intelligently beams adapt when dragged between the cross-staffed entries - no special tools are necessary.
Moving staves (64KB)
This movie demonstrates how staves can be moved up and down on the score paper, one by one or collectively.
Tristan, Act III (4MB)
Igor Engraver's playback quality is without par on the market. With Igor Engraver, what you see in the score is what you get when you press 'Play' - perfect legatos, hairpins, harmonics, automatic tempo changes, accelerandos, ritardandos, glissandos, microtones - it's all there, plus Artificial Intelligence algorithms to interpret the music the way a real human would. To listen to an example of the extraordinarily realistic playback that Igor Engraver gives you, we've provided this stereo MP3 recording of the prelude to the third act of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, played by Igor Engraver. No extra postprocessing has been done. This is Igor Engraver playing directly from the score, using its powerful default settings. The synthesisers used are a Roland JV-1010 and a Roland JV-1080, both with Orchestral Expansion Cards.
Jazz chords (308KB)
Igor Engraver can format jazz chords with superscripts and subscripts, real accidentals, triangles, circles, root degrees, brackets, parentheses -- everything the jazz musician needs. This movie shows you an example of how easily a complex jazz chord is entered and formatted with Igor Engraver.
TAB: Automatic Fretting (55KB)
Igor Engraver automatically calculates the fretting for you, avoiding collisions. In this example, note how alternative frettings can be produced at the touch of a button, allowing you easily to find the most suitable fretting or to show your students how a chord can be fretted in different ways.
TAB: Multi-voice intelligence (34KB)
In this two-voice example, note how Igor Engraver detects that the two voices cannot be played on the same string and warns you of the fact. Note also how moving the voices up a step allows another string to be used, making the passage playable. Igor Engraver knows about these situations, letting you produce playable tablature always.
TAB: Changing string assignments (37KB)
Changing the string assignment in Igor Engraver is easy: just press a key, and Igor Engraver moves the note to another string. This video shows you how.

TAB: Refretting (219KB)
It is incredibly easy to change the fretting of a passage in Igor Engraver. In this example, a passage in a Bach fugue is selected. Then the minimum fret position is changed to the third fret: Igor Engraver intelligentely recalculates the fret positions. Then, the same operation is done again, changing the minimum fret position to the fifth fret and disallowing open strings. Again, Igor Engraver instantly recalculates the fretting, using its built-in intelligence.
TAB: Changing tunings and adding strings (207KB)
With Igor Engraver, it is trivial to change the tuning of the instrument or to add or delete strings. Igor Engraver automatically recalculates the fretting.

TAB: Multiple TAB staves(179KB)
Igor Engraver's tablature functionality is completely dynamic - change the music, and the tablature changes. You can even have multiple TAB staves reflecting the same music -- for instance, one for a guitar with non-standard tuning, another one for five-string banjo, another one for steel guitar, and so forth. With Igor Engraver, adding a TAB staff is just a simple click away.
TAB: Bend hats, slides, string indications (104KB)
Creating bend hats and bend arrows has until now only been available in the DOS program 'Score', and even then it has been extremely difficult and time-consuming to produce. Now, it is available in Igor Engraver - this film shows you how anybody, even a novice, can create professional-level bend arrows in seconds. Naturally, they update dynamically as you edit the music, just like everything else in Igor Engraver.

TAB: Fret indications (44KB)
This video expands on the previous one and shows how easy it is to add fret indication lines in Igor Engraver.
Staff suppression (251KB)
When automatic staff suppression is turned on, empty staves will be suppressed dynamically. However, you can still walk up and down your score using the arrow keys -- as you do, the corresponding instrument will appear on screen, allowing you to enter music, which will cause the instrument not to be suppressed anymore. Note also that staff suppression in Igor Engraver 1.5 is smart -- it is applied per instrument, not per staff. This means that a multi-staff instrument, such as the harp or the piano, will either be suppressed in its entirety, or not at all. You can of course override this behaviour if you like. Igor Engraver 1.5 features the smartest and easiest-to use staff suppression logic on the market.