Encore

A very easy to use but also professional music notation software
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  • Demo
  • Price:
  • USD 399.99 | BUY the full version
  • Publisher Name:
  • Gvox
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://www.gvox.com/store/products_MTP.php
  • Operating Systems:
  • macOS
  • File Size:
  • 45 MB
  • Release Date:
  • 2021-06-11 03:55:25

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Encore Description

A very easy to use but also professional music notation software Whether you play directly into Encore or transcribe your MIDI files, you get accurate notation and beautiful printouts every time. You can extract parts, transpose for different instruments, and play your music as you originally conceived it. Encore is able to graphically display and play back dynamic marks, multiple endings, repeats, pedal marks or any MIDI controller.one.Encore scores can be fine-tuned with a simple move of the mouse. On-screen palettes let you enter dozens of marks and symbols. Lyrics and text are easily added. Powerful features such as page layout control, TrueType and PostScript support, polyphonic part voicing, and editable expressions palettes provide an inexhaustible set of capabilities for presenting your music on paper. Instantly transcribe your music into guitar tablature with correct fingering and guitar fret diagrams.When you put aside your pencil and staff paper and compose and arrange your music with Encore, you achieve a new level of professionalism and productivity. Encore has become the musician's choice in notation software because it allows you to create and publish everything from simple lead sheets to symphonies in less time and with more control. Here are some key features of "Encore": Editing Features: · Insert MIDI data for dynamics, controller data, and tempos. · Customizable Toolbar for quick access to frequently used commands. · Zoom in and out for precise control. · Expressions palette allows you to save your own expressions in any font, size, or style. · Guitar tablature symbols palette contains all the markings and symbols needed for notating tab. · Slur a group of notes automatically or draw slurs with the pencil tool. · Place objects anywhere on the page by clicking the mouse. · Select regions, pages, staves, systems, or the entire score for editing. · Transposition automatically affects chord symbols and fret diagrams. · Key commands to change note durations, sharps, flats, naturals, enharmonics, and MIDI velocity. · Transpose, change key signatures, meters, and clefs at any time. · Display and play back nested repeat structures, including variable bar lines and multiple endings. · Easily cut, copy, paste, clear, insert, delete, or undo notes or sections of music. · Symbols include: notes, rests, accidentals, slurs, ties, grace notes, cue notes, tuplets, accents, marks, ornaments, ottava, and dynamics marks. · Adjust the height and angle of beams and create Beam Groups. · Justify spacing for both accidental collisions and proper timing alignment. · Split notes from one staff onto two staves, either by pitch or voice. · Select from eight note-head types, including Gregorian and percussion. · Automatically extract parts with control over lyrics and markings. · Enter text or lyrics anywhere on the page in any font, size, or style, including dashes and melismata. Composition and Transcription Features: · Notate scores as large as 64 staves per system with up to eight voices per staff. · Cross-staff beaming extends beams across staves for multi-staff instruments. · Guitar tablature automatically notates tablature for up to 8 strings in any tuning with definable fret position. · Percussion staff notates rhythms with multiple note heads and assignable staff position. · Note duration and multiple voices are automatically "guessed" and then beamed appropriately. · Auto spacing automatically spaces notes for easy reading. · Additional symbols for rhythm-part chord slashes, arpeggio sign and fingering numbers. · Insert or delete measures, pages, systems or staves anytime, anywhere in the composition. · Transcribes Master Tracks Pro or Standard MIDI Files. · Directly transcribes live input from MIDI instruments in real time. · Linear view allows an entire score to be viewed as one system. · Add guitar chord fret diagrams and chord names to your scores and lead sheets. · Easily add a pickup measure to your score. MIDI Performance Features: · Plays back MIDI interpretations of dynamics, hairpins, repeats, endings, and articulations. · OMS and built-in Mac Synthesizer support (Mac only). · New Tempo Window, Color, Bank Select, and On-Screen Keyboard. · Sustain pedal markings affect MIDI. · Swing quantization gives music a swing feel. · Tempo indications can affect playback. · Assign up to 8 separate voices on each staff for playback over different MIDI channels. · Align the playback to match the current graphic appearance of your music. · Encore recognizes and generates MIDI Song Position Pointer and MIDI Clocks for syncing. · Select any number of MIDI ports using OMS (Mac only) or up to 32 MIDI channels with other MIDI Drivers. · Hear notes play over MIDI as you enter them with the mouse. · MIDI Panic Button sends an "all notes off" message at any time. Other Features: · Mac and Windows version share same format, files are transfer-able between platforms. · Supports OMS for Macintosh. · Windows Soundcard compatible · Supports Industry Standard MIDI Files. Page Layout and Printing Features: · Import Encore EPS files from many popular Publishing applications. · Choose between engraver's spacing and mathematically perfect alignment of notes. · Measures of rest can be compressed into one measure. · User can define global spacing defaults of staves, clefs, lyrics, chords, key, and meter. · Reminder time signatures can be displayed or hidden. · Use any font in your system for text, lyrics, chords, staff names, and measure numbers. · Place headers and footers on each page. · Print your scores using Passport's Anastasia Font on any TrueType or Postscript printer. · Print an entire score, individual pages, or extracted parts. · Print reduced or enlarged images or print large compositions in "tiles." Requirements: · G3 CPU or better · 32MB of RAM · 16MB Hard Disk space · MIDI interface and MIDI keyboard (or other MIDI instrument or software) for live recording. · A compatible ink-jet or laser-quality printer for printing sheet music. Limitations: · Save is disabled. What's New in This Release: NEW FUNCTIONALITY: · Added a "safe save" feature on Windows, to prevent corruption if crash during saving, etc. -- it also allows You can now access the last 20 saved versions in C:Users\AppDataLocalGVOX) · Added rulers with new (red) quartz lines on mousefollow. · Made expressions, graphics, text, dynamics, slurs and symbols assignable to any voice. · Small change in default slur location at noteheads. · Palette now keeps dot and tuplet when hotkey switches note/rest value. · Lyrics are now not centered when note has a right tie (Win was changed to match Mac). · Now any note in a chord can be clicked on for lyric insert. · Dynamics now playback on any other voice that is not using dynamic marks (this gives users the flexibility to use different MIDI channels on separate voices, but keep dynamics in one voice for entire staff) · Notes are automatically re-beamed when option/ctrl-drag a note. · Added arrows on windows palette header to match mac. · Selection now does not change which switching voice view. · Auto-adjusting of slurs when dragging notes, et al now handles more than one slur at a note. · Enabled negative numbers for measure number offset. · Added tempo object as part of top-text extraction of part. · Added a message asking the user to save file first when opening legacy files on Windows. · Made ellipse and circled string numbers to draw using GDI+ anti-aliasing on Windows. · Removed hard-coding of voices 2-4 & 6-8 to always beam down. · Encore now looks in all voices when calculating tie direction. · Added ability to create a non-score file as Default New Score.enc in the template directory - which will then bypass opening a template at launch. · Made follow playback always ON when recording. · Made QWERTY mode always turn off when keyboard closes. · Added the right-click popup menu in palette header to MTD Windows. CRASH & MAJOR BUG FIXES: · Fixed bug causing files to be corrupted when saving while in text edit mode. · Fixed bug causing crash on Windows opening a file saved with large printer info (some HP printers, for example). · Fixed various bugs/crashes related to converting to/from unicode text. · Fixed crashing bug when justify slurs at end of page. · Fixed crash when extracting parts when current measure on part was on a page not in view. · Fixed a crash when hitting '' at end of a line. · Fixed crashing bug when pasting in chord mode. · Fixed bug that caused program to hang (sometimes appears when editing chord in last measure). · Fixed bug where program would hang when transposing certain tied notes. OTHER BUG FIXES: · Various bug fixes for Mac Snow Leopard support. · Fixed bug when creating ties were in wrong direction with chords. · Fixed bugs related to using/adjusting lyric/chord position arrow. · Fixed bug where tab-selecting a note would insert an unwanted chord. · Fixed bug where normalize stems didn't normalize chords. · Fixed bug where tab-selecting note would insert chord. · Fixed bug when one voice in foreground and drag staff or barline didn't auto-justify other voices. · Fixed various redraw problems after dragging and editing. · Fixed bug where dragging top staff on page drag could not be dragged very high on some pages. · Fixed bug where opt-drag staff left didn't recalculate barlines on staff ends properly on subsequent pages. · Fixed bug where dragging margin of a staff margin didn't auto-justifies entire line. · Fixed many bugs drawing and dragging slurs/ties that wrap-around a system or page. · Fixed bug where objects in a background voice sometimes drew over foreground voice. · Fixed bug where marks were not the right size when attached to grace notes. · Fixed bug where stems sometimes went through the back end of beam. · Fixed bug where key signatures with cancellation accidentals would not be given enough space on justify. · Fixed bug which miscalculated the right # of staves in new staff dialog · Fixed bug not erasing all of tie when deleting a tie that overlaps barline. · Fixed MIDI Sync and related issues. · Fixed various initial MIDI data problems when starting playback. · Removed Humanize from playing back hairpins (was creating strange results) · Fixed bug where alto and tenor clef helptips were swapped · Fixed bug where double-clicking on dynamics palette would not launch playback window. · Fixed bugs in updating/enabling menu items depending on current context. · Fixed bug where slur would jump to other staves too easily when dragging. · Fixed bug extracting parts when some staves in score were hidden. · Fixed bug with print midi option not working on windows. · Fixed bug on XP where # of copies printed squared. · Fixed bug with bad default file pathname when printing to file. · Fixed bug saving over network. · Fixed flickering of ledger line when in arrow mode. · Fixed bug where dragging middle of a short beam acted as dragging left side of beam. · Fixed firewall preventing note collision on note and barline drags. · Fixed bug where moving a note vertically would still normalize stems, etc. · Fixed bug not able to undo barline drag. · Fixed bug where stemless notes would be not be stemless after an auto-justify. · Fixed bugs where lyrics were sometimes not be auto-justified (after barline drag, etc) · Fixed bugs where slurs would sometimes "wander" from the note after auto-justifying. · Fixed bug where auto-adjust would sometimes end up with middle of slur at right side of slur · Fixed stem length slider in mac Note Attributes to set stem to zero. · Fixed bug where score would scroll to beginning after some operations. · Fixed bugs with print selection option in Windows print dialog. · Fixed bug on Windows where text and other objects outside selection still printed on when printing selection-only. · Fixed bug in calculating tied notes' play duration on Windows. · Fixed bug where note velocity popup menu would change default setting for change velocity dialog. · Fixed various intel-mac related bugs reading old scores. · Fixed bug with tied notes over barline would become "detached" and mute after any function requiring a measure resize without align spacing (entering/transposing new key/time signature on same line, etc). · Fixed bug where tied note over barline would not play if starting playback in the tied-to measure. · Fixed bug where adding new staves would assign MIDI channels in reverse order. · Added disable of "print midi" in show/hide dlog if midi isn't also enabled. · Fixed problems with ties flipping, normalizing stems, marks, etc when transposing/nudging tied notes. · Fixed wrong undo message after simplify accidentals. · Fixed bug in lyric entry where backspacing in 2nd measure of score over barline into 1st measure caused errors or a crash. · Fixed bugs with MIDI bank, pan, and reverb not properly sent on playback. · Fixed bug in calculating tied notes' play duration. · Added automatic garrison MIDI port detection to see "ARIA Player". · Fixed bugs in VST player (windows prefs saving & dropped notes during high CPU usage) · Fixed bug on Win where lyric melisma on more than two notes only displayed under the last one. · Fixed various bugs where dragging items on windows would mute notes. · Fixed bug where a new staff did not initialize Synth Device to general MIDI for voices 2-8. · Fixed bug where a right repeat following another right repeat (with no left repeat in between them) would cause an infinte loop in playback and program freeze in MIDI export. (now in such cases the right repeat is ignored) · Fixed bugs with sending MIDI legato on slur playback in Windows. · Fixed bug where files double-clicked from windows explorer didn't open. · Fixed bug in Windows Click Setup not being able to enter flat/sharp notes. · Added missing alt-key menu shortcuts on Windows. · Fixed Windows templates to use Send Volume and Humanize but NOT Velocity Override. · Fixed bugs writing track banks, pan, and reverb on MIDI file export. · Fixed playback problems with overlapped unison notes (now prematurely ends any note before an overlapped note enters and does not end the note until the last overlapped note stops). · Added a bit overlap (15 ticks) above 100% to slur durations to slur. · Fixed bug that was allowing opening same file twice. · Fixed bug where erase cursor would sometimes not appear. · Changed max play duration to 200%. · Fixed bug where chord parsing did not insert on the proper chord line. · Fixed bug where trill lines printed in wrong direction on Intel Macs. · Fixed bug where current measure when not visually erase recording over that measure. · Fixed bug with Meas-Per-System dialog's OK button didn't close dialog. · Fixed bug with Change Tempo Dialog changed the wrong measure. · Fixed bug on Windows where Default Template would not open to size/location/maximize exactly as saved. · Fixed bug not restoring saved window location on score open. · Fixed bug creating invalid unicode character for line return on XML export on Windows. · Fixed bug where a lyric/chord line drag into staff above would cause it to be "stuck". · Fixed bug where notes would be mute when assigned to a new voice. · Fixed bug extracting parts in MTD used.enc extension. · Fixed bug when extracting > 1 parts on MTD parts would cause error opening because of the 2 score maximum. · Fixed bug where MusicTime virtual MIDI ports were named "Encore". · Various memory allocation/leak fixes. · Various minor updates of dialog names, tooltips, typos, and layout.


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