July 12, 2009

 

We are proud to release Encore 5.0.4.1 for Mac with a host of new features since v5.0.3 and a longer list of fixed problems.

 

This is a free update for any Encore 5 Mac customer.

 

 

NEW FEATURES

•       Universal Binary.

•       VST Plugin Host Application.

•       Support for importing Windows v5.0 files.

•       Lyric and Chord "Line Selector" (a popup menu next to the line arrow), eliminating the use of the voice selector to choose lyric/chord lines.

•       Enabled "Hide Extension" in save/export window.

•       Changed MSB/LSB Bank Setting interface to popup menus.

•       All objects (except lyrics and chords) can now be assigned to a voice #.

•       Dynamics, hairpins, etc now playback on their associated voice's MIDI Channel.

•       When dragging a staff horizontally, auto-justify is now performed on entire line for all    staves in system, and the entire remaining score when option key is down.

•       Slurs that wrap around to the next line now draw tapering off at the barline.

•       Small adjustments in slur position and dragging calculations.

•       Page Setup window is now part of New Score "Wizard Window" family.

•       Added shift-click on header page icons to bypass scroll to top.

•       Added optKey with pageUp/PageDown to always advance to prev/next page at same scroll position.

•       Added a clear instrument button to choose instrument dialog.

•       Added automatic selection of next note after a chord parsing entry.

•       Made record splits only happen on piano staff.

•       Added playback of D.C endings.

•       Various minor UI changes and improvements.

 

BUGS FIXED

•       Fixed bug with ties becoming detached after cut/paste.

•       Fixed bugs with slurs "floating away" when justifying, changing measures-per-system or measure width (resulting from a bad calculation when key signatures were present)

•       Fixed bug where some pages in a print job could print at wrong (usually small) size.

•       Fixed crash when justifying slurs at end of score.

•       Fixed bug when moving a note caused notes in other voices to be re-beamed.

•       Fixed bug where connect staves change changed staff margin indent.

•       Fixed bug where you could not set measures per staff to 1.

•       Fixed bug where sometimes "make cue" would try to make a grace note instead.

•       Fixed bug not erasing tie when deleting a note tied over barline.

•       Fixed bug where beam was not deleted after deleting one of 2 beamed notes.

•       Fixed bug where tuplet bracket was too far away.

•       Fixed bug where vertical drag of note in a beamed chord did not recalculate beams.

•       Fixed bug where marks on cue/grace notes were not smaller size.

•       Fixed bug when one voice in foreground and drag staff or barline didn't auto-justify other voices

•       Fixed bug selecting an MTP file in open recent did nothing.

•       Added speed improvements when dragging staves and barlines in long scores.

•       Fixed problems where grayed "background" voices were in front of "foreground" voices

•       Fixed bug where lyric entry would not start on all notes in a chord.

•       Fixed lyric not selecting on double(triple) click.

•       Fixed bug causing problems with font names greater than 32 characters long.

•       Fixed bug where selecting new tuplet value flipped value so that palette wasn't highlighted when tuplet was on and vice versa.

•       Made opening a file with unknown font automatically replace with Times.

•       Made QWERTY automatically disable when in lyric/text/chord mode or a sheet window is foreground.

•       Disabled pageup/down/space/home/end/arrow keys when recording.

•       Fixed bugs where some preferences were not saved: record notes, record controllers, beat click velocity.

•       Fixed bug where selecting "other" lyric font size changed the entire font settings.

•       Fix bug with "align staves" wasn't working properly.

•       Fixed bug with stems going too far past beams on certain zoom sizes.

•       Fixed bugs with MSB/LSB Bank settings not sticking.

•       Fixed redundant midi messages when starting playback.

•       Removed the clearing of selection when changing voice view.

•       Fixed bug missing file extension on part extract.

•       Fixed bug causing crash when extracting parts with hidden staves (now all staves are shown on extract).

•       Fixed bug where extract part left staff name on all pages (which also caused bad staff indents).

•       Fixed bugs where MusicXML exports had invalid unicode characters.

•       Fixed ties and slurs not drawing when wrapped around to the next page or multiple     lines.

•       Fixed insertion cursor not erasing and drawing too thick in some instances.

•       Fixed bug where click on rest output a strange MIDI message.

•       Fixed bug where new file adopted previous print scale setting (instead of defaulting to 100)

•       Added .xml and TEXT for finder info file types.

•       Fixed some errors transposing key signatures from transposition window.

•       Fixed bug where tab-selecting a note would insert chord paring from old MIDI entry.

•       Fixed bug not opening an MTP file from finder.

•       Removed confusing "feature" where changing of a score setting would change the default settings for top 3 templates and import midi/etc.

•       Fixed bug when where writing registration file can fail if system hardware and user permissions have changed since last registration.

•       Fixed "sfortzando" typo in palette tooltips.

•       Fixed palette tooltips where alto and tenor clef were swapped.

•       Fixed bug with “use handwritten fontâ€� checkbox in new score dialog would not retain    setting properly.

•       Removed tempo change and spaced out staves in Guitar Template.

•       Changed default bass to OFF in new chord.