Anyone Used MasterWriter

[aimusic]

Hey All,Has anyone here used MasterWriter or do you currently own it? If so, let us know how ya feel about it....ThanksBrad

[bmete]

Hi Brad,I bought it at the Rally.. I like it because I think it is a great organizational tool. I'm working on a couple of songs that have lyrics (I am not a lyricist), and using the rhymes & phrases and other features has helped me shape the tunes. I also got it for the songuard feature which I have been using. It was worth the money, remember if you order it, Taxi members get 10% off.Bob

[aimusic]

Sweet... I didn't know we get 10% off, BONUS!!!!Yeah I've been thinking about getting it for awhile now, checked out a demo about a year ago and liked the concept. The Song guard feature, is that the one where they copyright your music for you incase of a dispute or something along those lines?Great, glad to hear that you get a good use outta it!Brad

[bmete]

Hi,Songuard is not a copyright, and they don't secure a copyright for you, that would be up to you , if and when you decide to copyright.Songuard is an electronic time stamp of your work, especially as you are creating it, you can keep time stamping your progressions.As an electronic time stamp, MasterWorks says it will stand up against any copyright claims made against your work. I also like the feature, that registers percentage of ownership of the composition.Bob

[anne]

Is this program basically like an electronic thesaurus? I didn't get to see the demo at the rally as they were tearing down the stand by the time I got to shopping.

[aimusic]

As much as I can remember (was about a year ago), it is a songwriting aid, it contains thousands of words, words that rhyme, words that don't rhyme 100% but sound a like etc... that's just some of the features I can remember but I do remember it has A LOT more....http://www.masterwriter.com/You can download a demo and check it out, but I think it's great!

[aimusic]

or you could just click on the FLASH DEMO and see.... *slaps forehead* suppose that would be easier....

[ckbarlow]

Coupla quick notes:-- I think ASCAP members get a nice discount too, just BTW. -- Also, I inquired with MasterWriter whether Songuard is available separately, and it is not.-- There is a *different* service out there called SongGuard (two "g"s) that is *not* affiliated with MasterWriter. I contacted MasterWriter about them, asking, "Hey, is this you guys?" and they were unpleasantly surprised. Yikes!In case anybody needs a more general creative organizational tool: I started using Curio a few years ago (http://www.zengobi.com/). It's for any type of project organization, I think particularly geared toward creative professionals (designers, etc.). But I've used it to track notes on tech setups for different bands (its "sticky lines" are awesome for documenting cabling between pieces of hardware), and for collecting ideas, receipts, stage plots, photos, etc. for music-for-theater projects, and so on. More recently I've created a Curio-based template that roughly follows the method Pat Pattison puts forth in "Writing Better Lyrics." Main idea, object writes, thesaurus search, rhyme worksheet, etc.While Curio doesn't have a built-in thesaurus, it has a nifty Internet search tool called Sleuth that searches multiple reference sites on the term you enter. It includes standard ones like Thesaurus.com but also any that you customize it to use -- in my case sound-effects libraries. Put in "house" and you can get stock photos of houses, rhymes and definitions of "house," sound effects related to "house", etc.

[ciskokidd]

Quote:Coupla quick notes:-- I think ASCAP members get a nice discount too, just BTW. -- Also, I inquired with MasterWriter whether Songuard is available separately, and it is not.-- There is a *different* service out there called SongGuard (two "g"s) that is *not* affiliated with MasterWriter. I contacted MasterWriter about them, asking, "Hey, is this you guys?" and they were unpleasantly surprised. Yikes!In case anybody needs a more general creative organizational tool: I started using Curio a few years ago (http://www.zengobi.com/). It's for any type of project organization, I think particularly geared toward creative professionals (designers, etc.). But I've used it to track notes on tech setups for different bands (its "sticky lines" are awesome for documenting cabling between pieces of hardware), and for collecting ideas, receipts, stage plots, photos, etc. for music-for-theater projects, and so on. More recently I've created a Curio-based template that roughly follows the method Pat Pattison puts forth in "Writing Better Lyrics." Main idea, object writes, thesaurus search, rhyme worksheet, etc.While Curio doesn't have a built-in thesaurus, it has a nifty Internet search tool called Sleuth that searches multiple reference sites on the term you enter. It includes standard ones like Thesaurus.com but also any that you customize it to use -- in my case sound-effects libraries. Put in "house" and you can get stock photos of houses, rhymes and definitions of "house," sound effects related to "house", etc.Hey CK,I'm going to check this prog out. It sounds kinda cool. Thanks for the info.Aim,I currently use Masterwriter and have to say that I love what it does for you as an organizational tool and also as a great scratch pad for lyric writing. I don't really like the word processor in the program since I am such a big Word user, but it's nice to be able to keep works in progres in one place and to have the Thesaurus, Rhyming Dictionary, and Phrase Dictionary. I wish you could add to the database, but I realize that would mean some serious work for a small company like Masterwriter.Best,Cisco

[kouly]

I hate to be the wet blanket but I was less than impressed. I feel that for what it does it is way over priced and the support I got from them left a very bad taste in my mouth. My advice would be to buy a rhyming dictionary and put the rest into your submission fund. When I tried to submit a song to Songuard it did'nt work because they said their program needed a patch to work with QuickTime. They said they would contact me when the patch was ready, that was 18 months ago and not one word. When I wrote them after 1year they responded that they were still working on it. Your milage may vary.......