Welcome to Arkkra Enterprises

Hi. We are John and Bill of Arkkra Enterprises. Several years ago, as musicians and computer programmers, we decided to write a music publication program for our own use. We wanted something that could handle almost any kind of music, and produce professional-looking results, yet be quick and easy to use. The result is a program called Mup. We used it for hundreds of our own songs, and when other people expressed interest in getting a copy of Mup, we decided to set up a website to make Mup available as shareware. You can try this full-featured program for free, and if you like it, the registration fee is much lower than the cost of most music publication software. We invite you to read some of the comments we have received from Mup users from around the world.

Mup takes a text file as input and produces very high quality PostScript output for printed music. It can handle both regular notation and tablature notation. It can also produce MIDI output. It comes with a program called Mupmate that provides a menu-driven interface and integrated editor, but it can also be used in command line mode. It has been in use for music publication since 1992, and is used by musicians all over the world, including music departments at Stanford, Johns Hopkins, the University of Virginia, and other major universities. It is now available in Version 5.8, which was released in 2011. We provide ready-to-run versions for Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux x86. Source code is also available, so even if we don't have a ready-to-run version for your system, you can probably still run Mup (you will just need a C compiler in that case). Either way, you can download Mup Version 5.8 and try it out right away. Once you register, upgrades to future versions are free.

Arkkra Enterprise's Mission Statement

Arkkra Enterprises seeks to provide high quality, powerful, low cost, widely available music publication tools, using open interfaces and standards. We provide these tools in source form as well as in compiled form (ready to install and run) for several kinds of computers. Potential customers can try our products by downloading them. Arkkra Enterprises also provides a repository of information to help our customers make the best use of the tools.

Information about the Mup music publication program

• Summary of Mup features
• Overview of Mup
• Quick tutorial of Mup basics
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Downloading a copy of Mup to try out for yourself
• Comments from Mup users
• New features of Mup Version 5.8
• Sample Mup input file
• Sample Mup output (100K PostScript)
• Another sample Mup input file
• Sample Mup output (135K PostScript)
• Template Mup input file
• Music available for downloading
• Mup User's Guide (web-based version)
• A CD containing music composed and performed with the help of Mup
• Mup User's Guide (1 MB PostScript)
• Mup Quick Reference (100K PostScript)
• Some Mup documents in German (Deutsche Dokumentation zu Mup)
• Mup for blind users
• Mup License
• Mup shareware registration form
• Programs donated by Mup users
• Requests for new features
• Information for administrators of shareware archives about adding Mup to your collection
• Links to other interesting sites

We'd like to hear your comments about Mup. If you feel Mup doesn't currently meet all your needs or if you have any problems with downloading, installing, or using Mup, please let us know at

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