New features and bug fixes
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 font” 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.