Encore 4.5.6.2 review
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Encore is the standard in professional music notation. Its powerful transcribing and editing capabilities help musicians of all levels get their ideas into print. Fast, accurate, and easy to use, Encore allows you to create beautiful printouts of your scores - using up to 64 separate staves.
Whether you're creating motion picture scores, orchestral arrangements, choir songbooks, or teaching music in school, Encore is second to none.
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."
What's New:
Fixed bugs with revert.
Fixed intermittent crashes due to classic vs. carbon Port problems.
Fixed potential memory leak and crash problems in event loop.
Fixed bug where page layout was not saved in document.
Fixed problems with bad template file created under demo mode.
Fixed bug where some toolbar buttons were blank on launch.
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