Why use Nightingale?
1) As a professional score/parts preparer, I believe Nightingale is one of the handful of notation programs with publisher quality output; indeed, I have seen parts from our program in front of ensembles as prestigious as the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Kronos Quartet.
2) Although Nightingale is a full featured program with the potential for solving complex notational problems, it is relatively simple to learn and use. (A boon for teachers looking to equip classes of all ages.)
3) Nightingale can be used in conjunction with our freeware NightLight to provide a low cost solution for composition and theory classes; NightLight possesses most of the professional features found in Nightingale.
4) Finally, we believe Nightingale makes a more coherent use of the Mac's user interface than any of our competitors.
-David Gottlieb, President, AMNS

Since receiving an Electronic Musician 1997 Editors' Choice Award and 4 stars from Macworld, work on Nightingale had progressed at a slower pace than we would all have liked, although development never stopped. Now, however, we are adding features at a fast rate. We released two new versions in the summer of 2000: 1) Nightingale version 4.0, and
2) the freeware NightLight, which included virtually all the features of its larger sibling (but with a limit of 4 page scores and 9 stave systems). Updates came in September, 2001, as Nightingale version 4.5 was released, with NightLight 2002 joining it at the end of 2002. In April, 2004, Nightingale X, v.5.1 became the first version of Nightingale to run natively in OS X. Now, v.5.2 is available.