Mosaic notation program
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Mosaic is a now abandoned software program for producing music originally appearing as Professional Composer. Mark of the Unicorn
, the company that produced the software, decided to update Professional Composer and the result was Mosaic. No media release was ever produced by the company about Mosaic's demise and the product was dropped. Several factors can be theorized: Sibelius
and Finale
were the competitor notation packages; they were developed for both Macintosh and Windows
platforms. Mosaic was only available for Macintosh computers and thus Sibelius and Finale had far larger market opportunities.
Mark of the Unicorn
Mark of the Unicorn is a music-related computer software and hardware supplier. It is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has created music software since 1984.Products by MOTU include:*Digital Performer*AudioDesk*BPM*MachFive*MX4*Unisyn...
, the company that produced the software, decided to update Professional Composer and the result was Mosaic. No media release was ever produced by the company about Mosaic's demise and the product was dropped. Several factors can be theorized: Sibelius
Sibelius notation program
Sibelius is a scorewriter program, created by Sibelius Software for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and RISC OS. It is used by composers, arrangers, performers, music publishers, teachers and students, particularly for writing classical, jazz, band, vocal, film and television music...
and Finale
Finale (computer program)
Finale is the flagship program of a series of proprietary scorewriters created by MakeMusic for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Finale is regarded as one of the industry standards for notation software....
were the competitor notation packages; they were developed for both Macintosh and Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
platforms. Mosaic was only available for Macintosh computers and thus Sibelius and Finale had far larger market opportunities.