System Requirements
Macintosh: G3 CPU
or better, 32MB of RAM, 16MB Hard Disk space Mac OS 10.3 or higher
Windows: Pentium class CPU or greater, 32MB of RAM, SVGA video, PC running Windows XP or Vista
MIDI
interface and MIDI keyboard (or other MIDI instrument or software) for
live recording, and a compatible
ink-jet or laser-quality printer for printing sheet music.
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Complete Scoring
Features, Auto Part Extraction, MIDI and VSTi Playback Keep You in Control
Whether
you play directly into Encore or transcribe your MIDI files,
you get accurate notation and beautiful printouts every
time. You
can extract parts, transpose for different instruments, and play
your music as you originally conceived it. Encore graphically displays
and plays back dynamic marks, repeats, multiple endings, pedal marks,
or any MIDI controller.
Flexible Page Layout and Guitar Tablature
Expand Your Options
Encore scores
can be fine-tuned with a simple move of the mouse. On-screen
palettes let you enter dozens of marks and symbols. Lyrics
and text are easily added. Powerful features such as page layout
control, TrueType® and PostScript® support, polyphonic
part voicing, and editable expressions palettes provide an inexhaustible
set of capabilities for presenting your music on paper. Instantly
transcribe your music into guitar tablature with correct fingering
and guitar fret diagrams.
Computer Speed, Professional Results
When
you put aside your pencil and staff paper and compose and arrange
your music with Encore, you achieve a new level
of professionalism
and productivity. Encore has become the musician's choice in
notation software because it allows you to create and publish
everything
from
simple lead sheets to symphonies in less time and with more control.
New Features
- Gvox VSTi Host
- Toolbar now displays all tools
- Preroll click option
- New Score Wizard
- Over 30 Templates and unlimited user created template
- Transposed or "C" score option.
- Beginning measure number offset
- Preset Tab tunings option
- Added menu items
- Auto Spacing when dragging notes, barlines and systems
- Enhanced MIDI playback
- Garritan Personal Studio ready
- Simplified Accidentals option
- More shortcuts
- MusicXML import and export
- Full DLS and Soundfont support
- Handwritten Music Style option
- Bonus - Hundreds of works by J.S. Bach formatted in Encore, ready to use
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 melisma.
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, Standard
MIDI and Music XML.
- Directly transcribes live input from MIDI
instruments and MIDI sofware 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.
- 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 devices
- 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.
- Windows Soundcard compatible
- Supports Industry
Standard MIDI and MusicXML Files.
Page Layout and Printing
Features
- 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
an entire
score, individual
pages, or
extracted parts.