Encore 5.0.

5 Release notes NEW FUNCTIONALITY Added a "safe save" feature on Windows, to prevent corruption if crash during sa ving, etc. -- it also allows You can now access the last 20 saved versions in C: \Users\<username>\AppData\Local\GVOX\) 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 g ives users the flexibility to use different MIDI channels on separate voices, bu t 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 slu r 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 Wind ows. 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 templat e 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 '[' 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 l ast 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-jus tify 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 o n some pages. Fixed bug where opt-drag staff left didn't recalculate barlines on staff ends pr operly on subsequent pages. Fixed bug where dragging margin of a staff margin didn't auto-justifies entire l ine. Fixed many bugs drawing and dragging slurs/ties that wrap-around a system or pag e. Fixed bug where objects in a background voice sometimes drew over foreground voi ce. 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 wi ndow. 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 b eam. 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-justify ing. 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 printe d 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 an y function requiring a measure resize without align spacing (entering/transposin g new key/time signature on same line, etc). Fixed bug where tied note over barline would not play if starting playback in th e 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 transposin g/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 u sage) 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 repe at in between them) would cause an infinte loop in playback and program freeze i n 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 Overrid e. Fixed bugs writing track banks, pan, and reverb on MIDI file export. Fixed playback problems with overlapped unison notes (now prematurely ends any n ote before an overlapped note enters and does not end the note until the last ov erlapped 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 meas ure. 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/maxi mize 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 Wi ndows. Fixed bug where a lyric/chord line drag into staff above would cause it to be "s tuck". 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 becau se 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. Encore 5.0.4 Release notes Lyric and Support forHost "Line Selector" (a popup VST PluginChord Application. Universal Binary. NEW FEATURESimporting Windows v5.0 files.menu next to the line arrow), eliminat When dragging staff horizontally, on their Dynamics, hairpins, Setting interface window. assigned to All objects (except etc in playback choose lyric/chord Changed MSB/LSB Banklyrics save/exportcan nowassociated voice's on Channel. Enabled "Hide athe voice selector toauto-justifymenus. performedMIDI #. ing the use ofExtension"nowand chords) to popupbeis now lines.a voiceentire line for all staves in system, and the entire remaining score when option key Added adjustments is now position linedragging tapering family. Pagedown. Small that window in slur the of New always"Wizard Window"off SlursSetup wrap around topart nextto Scorebypasscalculations. at the barline. sc is shift-click on header page icons to draw scrollprev/next page at same optKey with pageUp/PageDown and now advance to to top. Fixed automatic D.C "floating BUGS a minor slurs endings. away" when Various clear tiesonly of improvements. a chord parsing Made FIXEDwithUIselectionand next choose instrument dialog. entry. Addedrecordwithofchanges button topianoaftercut/paste. roll position.instrumenthappen on noteafterjustifying, changing measures-per-sys bugs bug splits becoming detached staff. playback tem or measure width (resulting from a bad calculation when key signatures were Fixed bug present) where some pages in a print job could print at wrong (usually small) s Fixed bug whenerasingwasnoteslurs atnotesainscore.make a1.tonot re-beamed. ize. crash whenconnectbracketsetnoteendaofperstaffvoicesgrace note instead.beam not you couldnot causedtoochangedotherchord of 2 be recalculate wheremoving a stavesofcue" wouldnote staffmargin indent. notes. vertical "makedeletingfar away. tuplet beam tie not change in deleting one barline. sometimesdragdeleted after try to overdid beamed justifying when wasmeasures beamed tied to

Fixed bug whereone voice cue/grace notes were not smallerbarline didn't auto-jus s. when marks on in foreground and drag staff or size. Added speed improvements when dragging recent did nothing. of "foreground" vo Fixed bug voices tify otherselecting an MTP file in openstaves and barlines in long scores. problems where grayed "background" voices were in front Fixed lyric not selecting onwould notvalue flipped than in a chord. ices bug where lyric entrywith font names greater notes32 characters long. causing problemsnewdouble(triple) on all value so that palette wasn't tuplet start click. Made openingautomaticallyunknown font in lyric/text/chord with Times. highlighted when tuplet was on andwhenautomatically replacemode or a sheet windo QWERTY a file with disable vice versa. Fixed bugs where Disabled pageup/down/space/home/end/arrow saved: record notes, w is foreground. some preferences were notkeys when recording. record controlle Fixed bug where selecting rs, beat click velocity. "other" lyric font size changed the entire font settin Removed thewith MSB/LSB Bank settings beams on Fixed bugsmissing file extension onpastchanging voice view. Fix bug with stems going wasn't workingsticking.hidden staves (now gs. bug withclearingstaves"toowhenwhennotextract.certain zoom sizes. all staves redundant midi messagesextracting parts with causing crash selection startingproperly. "align of when far part playback. Fixedshownwhere extract part left staff name on all pages (which also caused bad are bug on extract). Fixed bugs where MusicXMLdrawing when invalid unicodeto the next page or multipl staffties and slurs not exports had wrapped around characters. indents). Fixed insertion cursoron rest output a drawing too thick in some instances. e bug where click not erasing and strange MIDI message. (instead of defaul lines. new file adopted previous print scale setting Fixed somewhere Added.xml and tab-selecting key file types. ting to 100) TEXTtransposing infosignatures from transpositionfrom old MIDI ent bug errors for finder a note would insert chord paring window. Removed Fixed confusing "feature" file changing of ry. bug not opening an MTPwhere from finder.a score setting would change the d Fixed settings fortop 3 templates and import can fail efaultbug when where writing registration file midi/etc.if system hardware and u Fixed "sfortzando" handwritten font checkbox in new score dialog would not retain ser permissionsusetypowhere sinceand tenor clef were swapped. bug with have changed alto tooltips. palette tooltips in palette last registration. Changed default the to prefs out staves Removed tempoof bass and spaceddefaults (compress measure now setting properly. textOFF in new chord. in Guitar Template.uses Anastasia/Nor some change Fixed intel-related and tuplets were not reset Music for example) problem on MIDI recording when changing duration value on bug where dots Many various note palette other fixes, speed improvements and safety checks. Added sometransposing tochanging piano staff transposed to staves. Fixed bug whereaddingicons recalculationchangingpage up/down. was inoperativ FUNCTIONALITYNote transpose withnotof measuresjustification. key signature. EncorecrashesRelease notes werekey signatureafter staff.initial key "doubled" auto-justifywithpercussion staff includedof note 5.0.3 whenAttributes Window updatedonon transposed "play" in with a extracting parts.where errors whenslurs page wrong # next stave's Fixed bug where opt-drag top staff of a page did not change vertical position of e. Fixed bug when adjusting # of Sys-per-Page did not retain the # of measures per following pages. Fixed on where switching systembug following pages.Soundfont files corrupted patch list and caused clicks Fixed errors withAPPEARANCE incompatible" error message sometimes appeared whe PRINTING &where "this printer sometimes printing too thick. in sound. SCORE slurs/lines bug Fixed bug where color background onlyleft corner top left of page. printing scor n printing. a black dot in upper printed in would appear when Adjusted where slash alerts glyph was error occurs. Fixed a printing of handwritten a printlook print error. Added bughairpin.errornoteheadwhenscore after amore like a line was used e withsomethat accidentally savedslurs tonot drawn (just onscreen slurs. instead extra Fixed bug where(tupletbackground would not draw. when zoomed in. ). Graphics black notestems did stayed pedals, guitar graphics, hairpins) errors where stems overlapped beams. thin screen beams, endings, slurs, to adjust according to staff size settings and have a slightly thinner thicknes Split "Anastasia Extended" into 2 fonts so that all glyphs Added some thickness to s in handwritten mode. ending lines in handwritten mode. can be accessed when Reverted a text object back to mac-classic typing inAnastasia font or expression text. font suitcase (instead of new TTF fi Fixed bug INTERFACE where Chord Window (via notehead click) le, which was causing dome draw & pdf problems) did not initialize to default Fixed chord Chord Window (last)bug in when opened. where "Custom" button didn't switch when click in cust Fixed bug with multipleof QWERTY8va/ etcbarlinekeys werewhen mousing over a note om text field.draggingfloated away fromicon. (animation of drag is now disabled) erratic nudge rests/PED,having zoom/redrawto adragging barline. where mouse entry cursor didn'tarrow when + reversed. lyric scores range change conflicts. Fixed bug where click on chord in pencil mode created a new chord instead of edi in another voice. Fixed bugs in Change ting existing one. Tempo Window causing numbers to be one less than user setti Fixed ng. crash bug when setting tempo for a measure outside of current # of measure Added not where InsertMeasure forwas Fixed menuundoablenudge up/down menu.notto "before". cancel-out of new score w s. bug hotkey text for # defaulted removed after selection region Meas-per-Sys and Sys-per-Page. Fixed izard.bug when starting playback after a hairpin (usually with no start/end dyna mic) the current dynamic could end up getting out of range and start sending cor Added bug defaulterrors noteheads inwith a time base Updated andpotential some relatedopening move/click of older in not (volume FILES drawing Fixed somewhere MasterTracksPro templatescoresdialog.and 120 would background. rupt MIDI databug in bugsin mostfilesmousefiles.made with scoresversionsopen. Fixed settings when to drummap control dynamics ON, velocity dynamics OFF, humanize ON, MIDI device is increas Fixed some potential bugs when opening a score saved with more MIDI devices than ed by one to accommodate Built-in 2 port). Fixed bug where searching for a saved MIDI device wasn't happening when opening currently running. LINEARbug where linear view scores. Fixed memory scores.VIEW leak on loadingbarlines were not draw whendraw staff lines of new m adding measures in linear view did not zoomed out. Changed easures.page up/down on linear view to scroll horizontally.