Encore is a powerful application that offers musicians a feature-rich environment for composing and transcribing music pieces.
The utility provides users with multiple notation editing methods for both tablature, as well as score sheets. With this tool you can also record your playing (via a MIDI keyboard or interface) directly as a music sheet. The application supports up to 64 separate staves that may contain a very generous amount of notes. Users can, at any point, add a new measure, change the tempo or apply a time signature. As for the score, you may add a new page, staff, center the staves and define text elements (title, score instructions, composer, headers, and footers).
Encore is a tool especially designed for professional musicians who need a digital platform for writing their music scores, but is equally suited for amateur users in search of a solid music notation and transcription application. In conclusion, this is a flexible and versatile utility created for all musicians. It comes with a wide range of scores that will demonstrate the application's capabilities.
v5.0
NEW FUNCTIONALITY
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.
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.
CRASH & MAJOR BUG FIXES
Fixed bug causing files to be corrupted when saving while in text edit mode.
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 '[' or ']' 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.
